Portal:Current events/2019 March 30
March 30, 2019 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
- First Vice President of Afghanistan, Abdul Rashid Dostum, survives an assassination attempt on his convoy while traveling to the Jowzjan Province in Afghanistan. The attack killed one bodyguard and injured two others. (Reuters) (The Jerusalem Post)
Disasters and accidents
- Flash floods kill at least 32 people in western Afghanistan, destroying homes and sweeping through makeshift shelters that housed displaced families. (Reuters)
International relations
- Northern Triangle of Central America
- President Donald Trump directs the United States Department of State to cease aid for El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. This apparently reverses the regional compact agreement Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen signed on Wednesday with these countries and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's congressional testimony of the same day. (The Hill) (Reuters) (ABC News) (CNN)
Law and crime
- Terrorism in Egypt
- Thirty men are sentenced in Egypt for planning an attack on a church in Alexandria, with eighteen men receiving life sentences and twelve men receiving between ten to fifteen years in prison. (The New York Times)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Slovak presidential election
- Slovak citizens vote for a new president, with front runner Zuzana Čaputová facing Maroš Šefčovič. (BBC)
- 2018 Gaza border protests, Gaza–Israel conflict
- On the one year anniversary of the Gaza border protests, tens of thousands of Palestinians gather on the border to commemorate the weekly gatherings. At least one protester died during the protests. (BBC) (CBS News)