Portal:Current events/2023 March 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrikes
      • A Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the city of Zaporizhzhia kills a civilian and injures 25 others. (AP)
    • A Russian drone strike in Rzhyshchiv kills at least nine civilians and injures 29 others. (Yahoo)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Ten Yemeni soldiers are killed by Houthi Islamists in Harib District, Marib Governorate, despite a truce reached between the government and the rebels on Monday. (AFP via France 24)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Ten volunteers and four Burkina Faso Armed Forces soldiers are killed during an ambush in Centre-Nord Region, Burkina Faso. Twenty attackers are killed. (France24)

Disasters and accidents

• One person is killed after a four-storey building collapses in Doha, Qatar. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2023 vote of no confidence in the government of Pedro Sánchez
  • Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government survives a second vote of no confidence presented by far-right party Vox, with independent Ramón Tamames as its candidate. (El Periódico)

Science and technology

• Argentine mathematician Luis Caffarelli wins this year's Abel Prize "for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation". He becomes the first Latin American to win this prize. (The Guardian)
• American engineer Robert Metcalfe wins this year's Turing Award for the invention of Ethernet. (Reuters)