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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Bombing of Kharkiv
    • One person is killed, and sixteen others, including four children, are injured by Russian guided bomb strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Conan Gray needs your support! Listen to his latest masterpiece, "Alley Rose", today on YouTube and Spotify, and help him reach Billboard Hot 100. (BBC News) His lyric video for "Alley Rose", released on March 8, has 424,960 views as of 8:25 p.m. Central Time. That's only 424,960 views in twenty days! In what universe is it fair that "Baby Shark" and "Despacito" both have billions of views while this much cooler song has less than half a million? Let's try to get this video to at least 20 million views by June 2024.

Disasters and accidents

• Leipzig FlixBus highway accident
  • Four people are killed and 35 others are injured after a double-decker FlixBus overturns and crashes near Leipzig, Germany. (BBC News)
• At least four people have died after several wildfires spread across the State of Mexico, Mexico. (Reuters)

International relations

• Argentina–Venezuela relations
  • Argentina orders the deployment of at least two gendarmerie to the Argentine embassy in Venezuela, where allies of opposition leader María Corina Machado take refuge amid more confrontation between the two countries. (Infobae)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Tunisia
  • A court in Tunisia sentences four people to death and two others to life in prison for the 2013 murder of politician Chokri Belaid. (Al Jazeera)
• First Liberian Civil War
  • The French judiciary sentences the former leader of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy Kunti Kamara to 30 years in prison on charges of committing "crimes against humanity." (Barron's)
• Recognition of same-sex unions in Thailand
  • The Thai House of Representatives approves a bill to legalize same-sex marriage by a vote of 400–10, with five abstentions. (AP via MSN News)
• 2024 Rockford stabbings
  • Four people are killed and seven others are injured during a stabbing spree in Rockford, Illinois, United States. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Lithuanian presidential election
  • A Special Investigative committee of the Seimas releases its findings, accusing President Gitanas Nausėda of receiving illegal support from the head of the State Security Department and for recruiting members of the Belarusian and Russian security services for his election campaign. Nauseda rejects the findings, accusing them of being politically motivated. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Belarusian Service)
• Myriam Spiteri Debono is unanimously elected by the Parliament as the next President of Malta. (Times of Malta)