Portal:Current events/2023 March 29
Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
- Sinking of MV Lady Mary Joy 3
- Thirty-one people are killed and more than 200 others are rescued after a ferry catches fire near an island in Basilan, Philippines. At least seven are still missing. (AP)
- Four people are killed by a storm in Syria. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2020–2023 H5N1 outbreak
- Chile detects its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a 53-year-old man. (Reuters)
International relations
- Brazil–China relations
- Brazil and China sign an agreement to trade in their own currencies, ceasing the usage of the United States dollar as an intermediary. (The Straits Times)
- Burkina Faso–North Korea relations
- Burkina Faso formally resumes diplomatic relations with North Korea after suspending them in 2017 over the country's nuclear weapons program. (Andolu Agency)
Law and crime
- Myanmar's ruling military junta dissolves the National League for Democracy, the political party of former State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. (NHK)
- Prime Minister of Fiji Sitiveni Rabuka announces that the Media Industry Development Authority will repeal a controversial 2010 law which strictly controlled media in the country. (RNZ)
- Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter at The Wall Street Journal, is arrested in Yekaterinburg by Russia's Federal Security Service under charges of espionage. (RFE/RL)
Politics and elections
- Repeal of the 2002 AUMF
- The U.S. Senate passes a bill to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs) that allowed the past wars in Iraq, with a bipartisan majority of 66–30 votes. (Reuters)
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- Crown Prince. City Football Group owner Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan is also appointed as Vice President. (Al Jazeera)
Sports
- 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup
- FIFA strips Indonesia of hosting this year's FIFA U-20 World Cup tournament after the Governor of Bali I Wayan Koster refused to host the Israel national under-19 football team. (The Guardian)
- 2022–23 NBA season
- In basketball, the Sacramento Kings make the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2006, ending their 17-year playoff drought, the longest in NBA history. (USA Today) (KTXL-TV)