< Portal:Current events
March 6, 2023 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Balochistan, Terrorism in Pakistan
- Bolan suicide bombing
- At least nine police officers are killed and 16 other people are injured in Sibi District, Balochistan, Pakistan, when a separatist suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle rams a police vehicle. (DW)
- Bolan suicide bombing
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Five Palestinians are injured by Israeli settlers attacking a family on a street in Huwara, in the West Bank. Twenty-five Palestinians are injured by tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during the attack. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Serasan landslide
- Eleven people are killed and an estimated 50 others are missing when a landslide buries houses in Natuna Regency, Riau Islands, Indonesia. (Reuters)
International relations
- Canada–China relations
- 2019 Canadian Parliament infiltration plot
- Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau appoints an independent special rapporteur to investigate alleged foreign electoral intervention by the Chinese government in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
- 2019 Canadian Parliament infiltration plot
- Japan–South Korea relations
- South Korea agrees to pay compensation to citizens who were forced to work in Japanese factories during World War II. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- A court in Belarus sentences five opposition politicians after a trial in absentia. Pavel Latushka is sentenced to 18 years, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 years, and Maryya Maroz, Volha Kavalkova and Siarhei Dylevski to 12 years each. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2023 transport strike in the Philippines
- Operators of traditional public jeepneys and minivans that are opposed to the implementation of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program organize a weeklong nationwide strike in the Philippines. (Rappler)
- 2023 Turkish presidential election
- The Republican People's Party, Turkey's main opposition party, nominates its leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as its candidate in the upcoming election. (The New York Times)
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