Portal:Current events/2018 March 2

• 2018 Ouagadougou attacks
  • A terrorist attack at the French embassy and military headquarters in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, leaves 28 people dead and at least 50 others injured. (BBC)
• Ituri conflict
  • An attack on a village, part of the unrest between ethnic Lendu and Hema communities, leaves 49 people dead in the Ituri Province of DR Congo. (News18)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • A suicide car bomber kills one person and injures fourteen others near the Australian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters via Newshub)

• 2017–18 European windstorm season
  • An avalanche near Entraunes in southeastern France, kills at least four people and leaves another one missing. (BBC)
• March 1–3, 2018 nor'easter
  • A massive winter storm occurs in the East Coast of the United States, leaving millions without power and cancelling thousands of airplane flights. (CNN via MSN)
• 2018 Baku fire
  • At least 25 people are killed in a fire at a drug-rehabilitation clinic in Baku, Azerbaijan. (RFE/RL)

• Russia–United States relations
  • Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denies White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders' claim that Russia breached any international arms control pacts, after President Vladimir Putin's March 1 speech on nuclear weapons. (Reuters)
• Cuba–United States relations
  • The United States permanently downgrades their embassy in Havana, making its status 'unaccompanied', meaning a post at which no family members are permitted to reside. The status change comes after alleged health attacks. (Miami Herald)

• 2016–2018 investigations involving Benjamin Netanyahu
  • An Israel Police anti-corruption unit questions Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. (Reuters)
• Cannabis in Greece
  • The Hellenic Parliament passes a bill legalising the use of medical cannabis in Greece. New Democracy, Communist Party, Golden Dawn and the Union of Centrists voted against the government-sponsored bill. (Greek Reporter)
• Central Michigan University shooting
  • A student shoots his parents dead in a dorm at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States. (NBC), (BBC)

• Italian general election, 2018
  • Antonio Tajani, the current President of the European Parliament, accepts the offer of Silvio Berlusconi to stand as a candidate for Prime Minister of Italy for Forza Italia. (The Local)
• Politics of the European Union
  • European Union lawmakers strike a deal on opening up the 3.6 and 26 GHz bandwidths by 2020 to make room for the new 5G network. (Reuters)
• Politics of Germany, SPD party member vote on the 2018 coalition agreement of Germany
  • Postal ballots of the 2018 SPD coalition party member vote are due. The vote will determine if the SPD is allowed to form a coalition with Angela Merkel's CDU. (Reuters)

• Long-distance swimming
  • The Dutch swimmer Maarten van der Weijden sets the 24-hour swimming record in a 25-meter pool at 102.8 kilometres (63.9 mi). (SwimSwam)