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Portal:Current events/2022 March 19
March 19, 2022 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia says that on Friday it used the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile for the first time in Ukraine to destroy a weapons storage facility in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. (Reuters)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Disasters and accidents
- Twenty-two people are killed and 38 more injured during a bus–truck collision in Melela Kibaoni, Morogoro Region, Tanzania. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- COVID-19 pandemic in Maharashtra
- Maharashtra reports 97 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, making it the first time that the Indian state has reported less than 100 new cases of COVID-19 since April 2020. (Business Standard)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Maharashtra
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- China reports its first death from COVID-19 since January 2021. (ABC News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
International relations
- Nuclear program of Iran
- Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney says that an agreement to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal could be reached within 48 hours. (Mehr News)
Politics and elections
- Politics of Australia
- 2022 South Australian state election
- Preliminary election results show Peter Malinauskas and his Labor Party winning a majority. (ABC News Australia)
- 2022 South Australian state election
- Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- An anti-NATO protest is held in Bulgaria during a meeting between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov to oppose Bulgaria selling weapons to Ukraine during the invasion. (Novinite) (The Bharat Express News)
- 2022 East Timorese presidential election
- Timorese are called to the polls to choose the country's president. (Reuters)
- Serdar Berdimuhamedow is sworn-in as President of Turkmenistan, succeeding his father Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. (Yeni Şafak)
Sports
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
- COVID-19 pandemic in Vanuatu, 2022 FIFA World Cup
- Vanuatu withdraws from the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifier after several players and staff members on the team tested positive for COVID-19 amid a sudden spike in cases nationwide. (Times of India)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Vanuatu, 2022 FIFA World Cup
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