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Ōfunato wildfire
- A wildfire (pictured) in Japan's Iwate Prefecture grows to become the largest in the country's history.
- The United States imposes tariffs on Canada and Mexico and increases tariffs on China, incurring retaliatory tariffs from Canada and China.
- Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost successfully soft-lands on the Moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
- At the Academy Awards, Anora wins five awards, including Best Picture.
- A roadmap towards providing developing countries with US$200 billion a year by 2030 is agreed to at an extended session of the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference.
March 5, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus
- Russia's Federal Security Service says it has killed four Islamic State militants in Dagestan during a counterterrorism operation. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season
- Tropical Cyclone Alfred
- Queensland Premier David Crisafulli announces the suspension of public transport services and the closure of 640 schools in South East Queensland, Australia, as Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall early Friday morning local time. (ABC News Australia)
- Tropical Cyclone Alfred
March 4, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Hezbollah–Israel conflict
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- An Israeli drone strike in Tyre, Lebanon, kills Haidar Hashem, the head of naval forces in Hezbollah's Radwan Force. (Times of Israel)
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A Ukrainian drone strikes an oil pipeline in Rostov Oblast, Russia, setting the pipeline ablaze for several hours before being put out by firefighters. Russia also reports its air defence units repelled another drone attack near Novoshakhtinsk. (Reuters)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests
- At least three Serbian lawmakers are injured after flares and smoke bombs were thrown into the National Assembly. Ana Brnabić, the President of the National Assembly, described the attack as terrorism. (CTV News)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Militants belonging to a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban storm a Pakistan Army compound in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, after two suicide bombers blow themselves up at the entrance, killing 12 civilians and wounding 30 others after nearby buildings collapsed. Six gunmen are also killed in the shootout. (Al Jazeera)
- New People's Army rebellion
- A Philippine Air Force FA-50PH fighter jet is reported missing during an overnight combat operation against insurgents in Bukidnon Province, Philippines. A search and rescue operation to locate the missing pilots is launched with both later being confirmed dead. (Reuters) (The Philippine Star)
- Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis claim to have shot down an American MQ-9 UAV, stating that it was conducting "hostile missions" over Al Hudaydah. The U.S. Air Force later confirms a loss of contact with the drone. (Al Arabiya)
Business and economy
- Second Trump tariffs
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- U.S. President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports to the United States take effect, while an existing 10% tariff on all Chinese imports rises to 20% amid an ongoing trade war. (AP)
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that he will impose a reciprocal 25% tariff on American goods worth up to US$155 billion. (Canada.ca)
- China–United States trade war
- The Chinese Ministry of Finance announces 10–15% tariffs on a range of US food imports, set to start March 10. (Reuters)
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- 2025 Donald Trump speech to a joint session of Congress
- U.S. President Donald Trump announces the creation of the Office of Shipbuilding, as means to compete with China in the maritime transport industry. (The Wall Street Journal)
Disasters and accidents
- March 2025 North American storm complex
- A storm complex leaves over 400,000 people without power in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and brings severe weather to large portions of the Southern United States. (The New York Times)
International relations
- Iran–Turkey relations
- Iran says Turkey's criticism of its foreign policy could lead to worsening ties after Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Iran risks plunging the Middle East into "disorder". (Al Arabiya)
- Turkey summons Iran's chargés d'affaires in Ankara after Iran's foreign ministry summoned Turkey's ambassador. (Al Arabiya)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Micronesian parliamentary election
- Citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia vote to elect ten of the fourteen members of Congress. (Pacific Daily News)
Science and technology
- The roughly 3,500 km2 iceberg A23a, the world's largest, runs aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia in the Atlantic Ocean. (BBC News)
- Scientists from Colossal Biosciences create a new form of genetically modified woolly mice. (The Guardian)
March 3, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- U.S. President Donald Trump pauses all U.S. military aid to Ukraine with immediate effect. (Bloomberg) (CNN)
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- A suicide bomber kills one person and wounds three others in Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP News)
- Western DR Congo clashes
- The Congolese military announces that eight members of the Mobondo militia, including one of their leaders, were killed the previous day when an army patrol seized the group's headquarters in the Kwamouth Territory, Mai-Ndombe Province. (Radio Okapi)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season
- Cyclone warnings are issued to residents of Brisbane, South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales as Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall on Thursday or early Friday local time. (The Guardian Australia)
- A bus rolls down a ravine after colliding with a truck in southern Bolivia, killing at least 31 people and injuring 22 others. (Reuters)
- At least 80 people are trapped inside a supermarket in Güímar, Tenerife, and dozens of cars are swept away to sea and stuck in mud in Gran Canaria after torrential rain caused floods across the Canary Islands in Spain. (Canaria Weekly) (The Sun)
Law and crime
- 2025 Mannheim car incident
- A car drives into a crowd of people near a Carnival market in Mannheim, Germany, killing two people and injuring 25 others, including fifteen seriously. A man has been arrested. (Euronews) (DW)
- A 70-year-old Arab Israeli man is killed and three others are injured in a mass stabbing at a bus station in Haifa, Israel. The perpetrator, an Israeli-Druze from Shfar'am, is killed by civilians present at the attack. (Al Jazeera) (DW) (The Times of Israel)
Politics and elections
- The Holy See reports that Pope Francis has been diagnosed with "acute respiratory distress" as a result of bronchospasms and a build-up of bronchial mucus, after recovering from pneumonia and bronchitis several days ago. (VOA) (NPR)
March 2, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- Israel agrees to a United States-led plan to extend the first phase of the ceasefire through Ramadan and Passover, during which half of the 59 remaining hostages will be released. Hamas rejects the proposal, insisting that the deal proceed with phase two, which includes the release of all remaining living hostages, a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and a permanent end to the war. (The Times of Israel)
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
Arts and culture
- 97th Academy Awards
- The 97th Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, United States. Anora wins the most awards, taking five, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison. Adrien Brody wins Best Actor for The Brutalist. (Reuters)
- Anora director Sean Baker becomes the first person to win four Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing) for a single film, also tying Walt Disney's record for most Academy Awards won in a single ceremony. (The Independent)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Southeastern United States wildfires
- Several wildfires erupt across South Carolina and North Carolina, United States, resulting in the evacuation of endangered towns, including several in the Myrtle Beach area. South Carolina governor Henry McMaster declares a state of emergency in response. (The New York Times) (NBC)
International relations
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Coalition of the willing (Russo-Ukrainian War)
- United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer announces after a meeting of European Union leaders in London that a "coalition of the willing" is working on a Ukraine peace plan that they will present to U.S. president Donald Trump. (Sky News)
- Russia–United States relations
- United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations and information operations against Russia by U.S. Cyber Command. (NBC News)
- Coalition of the willing (Russo-Ukrainian War)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Abkhazian presidential election
- Acting leader of Abkhazia Badra Gunba is elected President with 55% of the votes. Georgia rejects the election, as it claims Abkhazia as part of its territory. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Firefly Aerospace successfully lands the Blue Ghost Mission 1 on the Moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, delivering payloads to Mare Crisium with instruments to study lunar regoliths and the interactions between solar wind and Earth's magnetic field. (Space.com) (NASA)
March 1, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War on terror
- War against the Islamic State
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- The Puntland Dervish Force captures an IS–Somalia base in Buqa Caleed, in the Cal Miskaad mountain range of Bari Region, Puntland, Somalia. (The Somali Digest) (Horseed Media)
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- United States Central Command says that it has carried out a precision airstrike in Syria, targeting and killing Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, a senior military leader in Hurras al-Din. (Al Arabiya)
- War against the Islamic State
- Colombian conflict
- 2025 Catatumbo clashes
- Three men are found dead in a vehicle near the village of Orú in the Tibú municipality, Norte de Santander, Colombia, with one body dressed in a National Liberation Army (ELN) uniform. (El Heraldo de Colombia)
- After placing an ELN flag at the entrance of the municipality of Saravena, Arauca, the ELN detonate an improvised explosive device, targeting Colombian soldiers attempting to remove the flag. No casualties are reported. (El Heraldo de Colombia)
- 2025 Catatumbo clashes
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- Gaza Strip famine
- Israel blocks the entry of all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza as the first phase of the ceasefire ends. (AP)
- Kivu conflict
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- Civil society groups in the Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, report that 23 people were killed and another 20 were taken hostage in raids by an Islamic State-affiliated faction of the Allied Democratic Forces militia over the past week. (Arab News)
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces a ceasefire with Turkey after forty years of conflict. (Al Jazeera)
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- Syrian civil war
- Druze–Syria clashes
- At least one person is killed and approximately nine others are wounded in the Druze-majority city of Jaramana, following armed confrontations between local residents and security forces affiliated with the transitional government. In response, the Suwayda Military Council declares a state of alert, while Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz instruct the Israel Defense Forces to "prepare to defend" the city. (ANHA) (Times of Israel)
- Druze–Syria clashes
Arts and culture
- Brit Awards 2025
- At the 2025 Brit Awards, Charli XCX wins British Artist of the Year, while her album Brat wins British Album of the Year and her song "Guess" wins Song of the Year in collaboration with Billie Eilish. Ezra Collective wins Best British Group. (BBC News)
- A group of winter swimmers in Most, Czechia, set a new world record for the largest polar bear plunge with 2,461 participants. The previous record was 1,799 participants set in Mielno, Poland, in 2015. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 37 people are killed and 30 others are injured when two passenger buses collide near Uyuni, Potosí department, Bolivia. (BBC News)
International relations
- United Kingdom–Ukraine relations
- Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with UK prime minister Keir Starmer in London, where they sign off on a British loan of GB£2.26 billion to buy military supplies for Ukraine. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Romanian presidential election
- 2024–2025 Romanian election annulment protests
- Tens of thousands of demonstrators hold a rally in Bucharest, Romania, in support of presidential candidate Călin Georgescu and demand that the second round of the annulled 2024 election is held instead of a new election. (AP)
- 2024–2025 Romanian election annulment protests
- Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
- United States President Donald Trump signs an executive order designating English as the country's official language. (The Guardian)
- Presidency of Yamandú Orsi
- Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse are inaugurated as the president and vice president of Uruguay in Montevideo. (Reuters)
Sports
- At their annual general meeting in Northern Ireland, the International Football Association Board approves a new rule stating that beginning the following season, if a goalkeeper holds the ball for more than eight seconds, the opposing team is awarded a corner kick. (BBC)
February 28, 2025 (Friday)
Attacks and armed conflicts
- 2025 Darul Uloom Haqqania bombing
- Five people, including Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, the head of a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) party and son of Sami-ul-Haq, are killed and twenty others are injured in a suicide bombing inside of a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Indian Express)
- Mexican drug war
- At least four people are shot dead in a mechanical workshop in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. This is the second massacre this week in the state, the other in Perote, which left three workers dead and one wounded. (La Jornada)
- Three policemen and a civilian are killed in two attacks in Guanajuato, Mexico, the first in Celaya and the second in Apaseo el Alto. (Revista Proceso)
Business and economy
- Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
- Economic Blackout
- A 24-hour consumer spending boycott takes place across the United States, in protest of wealth and income inequality, high prices of essential goods, and the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by the Trump administration. (AP)
- Economic Blackout
- 2025 United States federal mass layoffs
- The United States Social Security Administration announces it will lay off over 7,000 jobs to align with President Donald Trump's executive order, despite its workforce already being at a 50-year low. (NPR)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Three people are killed as tropical cyclone Garance makes landfall in Réunion in the Indian Ocean. (AP)
- 2025 disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- At least 60 fatalities and nearly 1,100 symptomatic cases are reported to be a result of a disease outbreak of unknown etiology in the Province of Équateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (CBS News)
Health and environment
International relations
- Ukraine–United States relations
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting
- U.S. president Donald Trump, U.S. vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy end their talks early after their meeting in the White House turns into a "heated" exchange. Trump rejects any discussion of specific security guarantees for Ukraine, being interested solely in discussing the Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement. (Time) (AP)
- The U.S. State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine's energy grid restoration amid an ongoing energy crisis. (NBC)
- 2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Colombia–Israel relations, Israel–Malaysia relations, South Africa–Israel relations, Boycotts of Israel
- Colombian president Gustavo Petro, Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa release a joint statement announcing they will close their ports to any ship carrying weapons supplied to Israel. (Middle East Monitor)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- The East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) postpone the joint summit of their foreign ministers that would have agreed on a ceasefire plan for the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congolese and Rwanda governments never received invitations to the meeting. (Critical Threats Project)
- Russia–United States relations
- Russia appoints Alexander Darchiev as its new ambassador to the U.S. following talks between the two countries in Istanbul on restoring regular diplomatic contacts and embassy staffs. The post has been vacant for several months. (Barron's) (Interfax)
Law and crime
- Mexico extradites 29 alleged cartel members to the United States, including Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel Treviño Morales, Omar Treviño Morales, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez. (BBC News) (CBS News)
Politics and elections
- Greeks organize a 24-hour nationwide general strike on the second anniversary of the Tempi train crash, Greece's deadliest railway disaster. (Reuters)
- Following the 2024 quota reform movement in Bangladesh, students who led the protests announce the formation of a new political party, the National Citizen Party, led by Nahid Islam, a student activist and the chief coordinator of the Students Against Discrimination movement. (DW)
Science and technology
- Microsoft announces it will shut down Skype in May 2025 to focus its support and development on Teams. (DW) (Bloomberg News)
February 27, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- As part of the first stage of the ceasefire deal, Hamas releases the bodies of four Israeli hostages in return for the Israeli government releasing 617 Palestinian prisoners. The second phase of the ceasefire has not been negotiated. (DW)
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- Thirteen people are injured in a car-ramming attack in Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel. The suspect, a Palestinian residing in Ma'ale Iron, is later shot and killed by police after an attempted stabbing attack. (Times of Israel)
- Gaza war
- Kivu conflict
- 2025 Bukavu offensive
- 2025 Bukavu M23 rally bombings
- A grenade attack at an M23 rally in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, celebrating their recent victory over government forces in the city, kills at least eleven people and wounds 65 others. (Reuters)
- 2025 Bukavu M23 rally bombings
- 2025 Bukavu offensive
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- Jailed Kurdish leader and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan calls for an end to the conflict with Turkey and asks the group to disarm and disband, amid peace efforts between the Turkish government and the PKK led by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party. (Rudaw) (Reuters) (DW)
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- Somali Civil War
- Somali capital city Mogadishu enters a security lockdown after several mortars were fired toward Aden Adde International Airport during a visit from Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (Anadolu Agency)
- Somali forces regain control of Balad after Al-Shabaab launches a coordinated attack, detonating roadside bombs and briefly seizing the town. (Hiiraan Online)
- Villa Somalia security guards open fire on civilians at Lido Beach in Mogadishu while attempting to clear the beach ahead of a visit from Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, killing a teenage boy and wounding several others. (Idil News) (HBN)
Business and economy
- Denmark–United States relations
- Danish retailer group Salling Group, which operates around 34% of the retail market share in the country, announces it will start differentiating brands owned by European companies from American ones, in retaliation to U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed acquisition of Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm. (DW)
Disasters and accidents
- A fire at a three-story residential building in Quezon City, Philippines, kills eight people and injures one other. (AP)
- Two people are killed when a Robinson R44 helicopter crashes on a private property in Uvalde, Texas, United States. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are currently investigating the accident. (KENS-TV)
- Two Russian tourists are killed in a shark attack while scuba diving in the Verde Island Passage off Batangas, Philippines. (Fox News)
International relations
- United Kingdom–United States relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump meets with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Washington, D.C., for talks that include the Russo-Ukrainian War peace negotiations. Starmer also presents a letter from King Charles III inviting Trump to visit London later this year. (NPR)
Law and crime
- Persecution of Uyghurs in China
- Forty Uyghur men detained in Thailand for over a decade are deported to China, despite concerns regarding their likely imprisonment. (Al Arabiya)
- The prosecutor's office in Paris, France, closes a criminal complaint case by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) against technology company Apple for alleged money laundering and deceptive business practices related to the purchase of minerals in the DRC from armed militias. It is one of the DRC's two lawsuits, with another in Belgium. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Austrian legislative election
- The Social Democratic Party, the Austrian People's Party, and the NEOS party in Austria agree to form a coalition government, leaving out the far-right Freedom Party, who won the most seats in the National Council in the 2024 legislative election. The coalition agreement ends Austria's longest period without a government since World War II. (DW) (Euractiv)
- The Trump administration bans NASA scientists and US government officials from attending the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference that started this week in Hangzhou, China, which are focused on the seventh IPCC Assessment Report on climate change. (Nature)
Science and technology
- Meta Platforms says it has fixed an error that resulted in Instagram users' Reels feeds displaying violent and graphic videos despite these users having content filters enabled. (Al Arabiya)
- OpenAI releases their latest large language model, GPT-4.5. (The Verge)
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