Portal:Current events/2023 March 6
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Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Balochistan, Terrorism in Pakistan
- Bolan suicide bombing
- At least nine police officers are killed and 16 other people are injured in Sibi District, Balochistan, Pakistan, when a separatist suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle rams a police vehicle. [https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-suicide-bomb-kills-police-officers-in-balochistan/a-64894133 (DW)]
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Five Palestinians are injured by Israeli settlers attacking a family on a street in Huwara, in the West Bank. Twenty-five Palestinians are injured by tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during the attack. [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/7/israeli-attack-wounds-palestinians-as-settlers-and-soldiers-dance (Al Jazeera)]
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Serasan landslide
- Eleven people are killed and an estimated 50 others are missing when a landslide buries houses in Natuna Regency, Riau Islands, Indonesia. [https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/landslide-kills-least-10-indonesias-remote-natuna-region-2023-03-06/ (Reuters)]
International relations
- Canada–China relations
- 2019 Canadian Parliament infiltration plot
- Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau appoints an independent special rapporteur to investigate alleged foreign electoral intervention by the Chinese government in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections. [https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/03/07/23/canada-launches-probe-into-alleged-chinese-election-interference (AFP via ABS-CBN News)]
- Japan–South Korea relations
- South Korea agrees to pay compensation to citizens who were forced to work in Japanese factories during World War II. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64858944 (BBC News)]
Law and crime
- A court in Belarus sentences five opposition politicians after a trial in absentia. Pavel Latushka is sentenced to 18 years, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 years, and Maryya Maroz, Volha Kavalkova and Siarhei Dylevski to 12 years each. [https://apnews.com/article/belarus-opposition-sentenced-trial-tsikhanouskaya-38240b15e7c4bd5d87f382bd92100f4e (AP)]
Politics and elections
- 2023 transport strike in the Philippines
- Operators of traditional public jeepneys and minivans that are opposed to the implementation of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program organize a weeklong nationwide strike in the Philippines. [https://www.rappler.com/nation/transport-groups-strike-against-jeepney-phaseout-starting-march-6-2023/ (Rappler)]
- 2023 Turkish presidential election
- The Republican People's Party, Turkey's main opposition party, nominates its leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as its candidate in the upcoming election. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/world/middleeast/erdogan-turkey-election-kilicdaroglu.html (The New York Times)]
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