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Portal:Current events/2021 March 5

March 5, 2021 (2021-03-05) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Somali Civil War
    • 2021 Mogadishu suicide car bombing
      • At least 20 people are killed and 30 others are wounded by a suicide car bombing outside a restaurant near the port in Mogadishu. (Al Jazeera)
    • At least seven soldiers are killed after al-Shabaab militants storm a jail in Bosaso, Puntland, Somalia. More than 400 prisoners are freed during the assault, the majority of whom are Al-Shabaab fighters. (Reuters)
  • War in Afghanistan
    • 2021 Afghanistan attacks
      • A female doctor is killed and a child is wounded in Jalalabad, Nangarhar, when a bomb attached to the doctor's rickshaw explodes, while seven workers at a Hazara plaster factory are shot dead in Surkh-Rōd District, Nangarhar. ISIL is suspected to be behind the attacks. (Al Jazeera)
  • Aftermath of the assassination of Luca Attanasio
  • Syrian civil war
  • 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest
    • The number of farmers who died during the protests, which began in August 2020, increases to 248. (Al Jazeera)
  • 2021 Myanmar protests
    • A man is killed after police open fire on a group of protesters in Mandalay. (Reuters)

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

  • 2021 Kermadec Islands earthquake
    • An 8.1 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of New Zealand's North Island, initially prompting a tsunami warning. The earthquake was preceded by a 7.4 magnitude foreshock and followed by a 6.1 magnitude aftershock. (Stuff.co.nz)
  • A minibus and a trailer-truck collide on a highway near Atfih, Middle Egypt, killing 18 people and injuring five others. The truck driver has since been arrested. (AP)

Health and environment

International relations

Law and crime

Science and technology

  • 2021 Myanmar protests
    • YouTube suspends channels run by Myanmar's military and removes junta propaganda videos for "violating its community guidelines and terms of service". (AP)
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