Sunday 16 March 2025

Politics

United States President Donald Trump signs an executive order shutting down multiple state-funded broadcasters, including Voice of America, Radio y Televisión Martí and Alhurra, and ceasing grants to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia.

Tornado outbreak of March 13–16

The death toll from the tornadoes across several states in the U.S. increases to 40.

Insurgency in Balochistan

Eleven people are killed and 21 more are injured in a suicide bombing targeting a Frontier Corps convoy on a highway in Nushki, Balochistan, Pakistan. The Balochistan Liberation Army claims responsibility, claiming they killed 90 security personnel.

Kočani nightclub fire

At least 59 people are killed and more than 152 others are injured after a fire breaks out in a nightclub during a concert in Kočani, North Macedonia.

Disasters

The Wilhelmina Tower in Valkenburg, Netherlands, built in 1906 and designated a Rijksmonument, collapses.

Disasters

At least 16 people are killed and 18 others are injured when an unexploded ordnance from the Syrian civil war explodes and causes a building to collapse in Latakia, Latakia Governorate, Syria.

March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen

The Houthi health ministry announces that the death toll from yesterday's strikes by the U.S. in Yemen rose to 53, with 98 injured.

Red Sea crisis

The Houthis claim that they targeted USS Harry S. Truman with 18 rockets and drones. No damage has been reported.