Monday 3 March 2025

Western DR Congo clashes

The Congolese military announces that eight members of the Mobondo militia, including one of their leaders, were killed the previous day when an army patrol seized the group's headquarters in the Kwamouth Territory, Mai-Ndombe Province.

Disasters

A bus rolls down a ravine after colliding with a truck in southern Bolivia, killing at least 31 people and injuring 22 others.

2024–25 Australian region cyclone season

Cyclone warnings are issued to residents of Brisbane, South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales as Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall on Thursday or early Friday local time.

Insurgency in Balochistan

A suicide bomber kills one person and wounds three others in Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan.

United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses all U.S. military aid to Ukraine with immediate effect.

Disasters

At least 80 people are trapped inside a supermarket in Güímar, Tenerife, and dozens of cars are swept away to sea and stuck in mud in Gran Canaria after torrential rain caused floods across the Canary Islands in Spain.

2025 Mannheim car incident

A car drives into a crowd of people near a Carnival market in Mannheim, Germany, killing two people and injuring 25 others, including fifteen seriously. A man has been arrested.

Crime & Justice

A 70-year-old Arab Israeli man is killed and three others are injured in a mass stabbing at a bus station in Haifa, Israel. The perpetrator, an Israeli-Druze from Shfar'am, is killed by civilians present at the attack.

Politics

The Holy See reports that Pope Francis has been diagnosed with "acute respiratory distress" as a result of bronchospasms and a build-up of bronchial mucus, after recovering from pneumonia and bronchitis several days ago.