Portal:Current events/2024 March 14

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A civilian is killed and three others are injured by airstrikes launched by Ukraine in Belgorod Oblast, Russia. (TASS)
  • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
    • Russian-installed officials at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, say that shelling has hit critical infrastructure at the plant and that "such attacks are unacceptable". (Reuters)
• War in Sudan
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • The Sudanese Army captures the Wad al-Bashir bridge in Omdurman. (Sudan Tribune)
    • Sudanese forces capture several South Sudanese mercenaries fighting for the RSF in Omdurman. (Sudan Tribune)
  • Several civilians are killed after fighting breaks out in Ibtenki refugee camp in eastern Chad. (Radio Dabanga)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • March 2024 Kuwait Roundabout attacks
    • At least 20 people are killed and 155 are injured at a food distribution point in the Kuwait Roundabout. (CNN)
• Somali civil war
  • 2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege
    • An al-Shabaab member blows himself up outside a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing three guards and two security forces. Six gunmen then stormed the hotel in 13-hour siege, causing a gunfight with the army in which three soldiers and the six attackers are killed. Twenty-seven other people are wounded. (Al Jazeera) (NDTV)
• Western Sahara conflict
  • Western Saharan clashes
    • The SPLA reportedly attacked Moroccan army headquarters in the Al-Mahbas sector. (Sahrawi Press Service)

International relations

• Russia–United Kingdom relations
  • A Royal Air Force plane carrying UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and several journalists has its GPS signals jammed while flying near Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Mobile phone signals were also jammed during the flight. The Russian military is suspected of being behind the jamming. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Iraq's National Security Council formally bans the Kurdistan Workers' Party following a high-level meeting between Iraqi and Turkish officials in Baghdad, Iraq. (Al Monitor)
• Police in Angola report that around 50 people have died after being forced to drink a toxic concoction to prove they are not witches. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Croatian parliamentary election
  • The Croatian government votes to dissolve the parliament, thereby requiring that a parliamentary election be held within the next two months. The parliamentary election was originally scheduled to be held on September 22. (Reuters)
• Conscription in Denmark
  • Denmark announces plans to extend military conscription to women for the first time and to also increase the standard service time. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 3
  • SpaceX successfully launches the first Starship rocket, the most powerful rocket ever built, at Starbase in Texas, United States, after two previous failed attempts. The rocket reached an altitude of more than 200 kilometres (120 mi), but was destroyed during re-entry. (Al Jazeera)