Disasters and accidents

• Chihuahua migrant center fire
  • At least 39 people are killed and 29 others are injured after during a fire at a migrant center near the Mexico–United States border. (AP)

International relations

• Philippines drug war
  • Philippines president Bongbong Marcos announces that the country will cut ties with the International Criminal Court due to the ICC's refusal to suspend its investigation on alleged crimes committed by the administration of former president Rodrigo Duterte during the war on drugs in the country. (Bloomberg)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian missile strike on Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, kills at least two civilians and injures 29 others. (Euronews)
  • The head of the Blagodarnensky District in Stavropol Krai, Russia, announces the death of Dmitry Lisitsky, commander of a battalion of the 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment who participated in the 2014 Battle of Ilovaisk. Ukraine says that he was killed in battle while pro-Russian sources say that he committed suicide. (Novaya Gazeta Europe)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • Six people are killed and several others are injured when a suicide bomber detonates himself near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 16 people are killed by a landslide in Alausí, Chimborazo Province, Ecuador. (BBC News)
• A train transporting hazardous materials derails near Wyndmere, North Dakota, with 31 out of 70 train cars damaged. (KARE-TV)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Taiwan
  • Cross-Strait relations
    • Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou becomes the first Taiwanese leader to visit mainland China since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, meeting with China's Taiwan Affairs Office deputy chair Chen Yuanfeng in Shanghai. Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party criticized this visit as "endorsing" China's position on Taiwan. (Al Jazeera)
  • Honduran President Xiomara Castro orders Taiwanese diplomats to vacate the country's embassy in Tegucigalpa within 30 days, one day after the country established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. (Reuters)
• Enlargement of NATO
  • The National Assembly of Hungary votes 182–6 to approve Finland's accession to NATO, leaving Turkey as the last remaining NATO member to approve Finland's membership in the military alliance. (France 24)

Law and crime

• 2023 Covenant School shooting
  • Six people are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The suspect is later killed by responding police officers. (CNN)
• Burkina Faso suspends France 24 broadcasts after the news agency aired an interview with the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb earlier this month. The Burkinabé government accused France 24 of being a "mouthpiece for terrorists" and "hate speech", which the agency denies as "unfounded". (Reuters)
• One person is killed and five others are injured in a mass stabbing at a school in São Paulo, Brazil. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Israeli anti-judicial reform protests
  • Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a pause on his government's controversial judicial reform bill until April 30, the opening of the Knesset's summer session. (USA Today)
• 2023 Scottish National Party leadership election
  • Health and Social Care Secretary Humza Yousaf is elected as the new leader of the separatist Scottish National Party, defeating Finance Secretary Kate Forbes with 52.1% of the vote. (BBC News)
• The Iraqi Parliament passes a series of amendments reducing the electoral districts in each governorate to one, ahead of local elections in November. Voting blocs and independent members who boycotted the vote claim the amendments make it more difficult for the opposition to get elected. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Censorship of TikTok, Censorship of Twitter
  • France bans the use of Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and other apps on government employees' phones due to concerns relating to insufficient data security measures. (AP)
• Scientists discover lunar water samples in tiny glass beads from the Moon in studies published by the Nature Geoscience journal. (ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • At least 29 sub-Saharan Africans are killed when two boats sink off the coast of Tunisia. (France 24)
• Tornado outbreak of March 24–26, 2023
  • U.S. President Joe Biden approves an emergency declaration for the state of Mississippi following a storm that killed at least 26 people and caused significant damage, granting federal aid to affected areas of the state. Carroll, Humphreys, Monroe, and Sharkey counties will be the main recipients. (Reuters)
• Two people are killed and another is missing after a fire breaks out on an oil tanker ship near West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• A pipeline leak causes an oil spill at Poole Harbour in Dorset, England, in which more than 200 barrels of reservoir fluids, including oil, leak into a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The RSPB reported sightings of oiled birds. (BBC News)

International relations

• China–Honduras relations
  • Honduras switches its formal diplomatic recognition of "China" from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Cuban parliamentary election
  • Citizens in Cuba head to the polls to elect the members of the National Assembly. (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News)
• 2023 Turkmen parliamentary election
  • Citizens in Turkmenistan head to the polls to elect the 125 members of the Assembly. (MenaFN)
• 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses Defense Minister Yoav Gallant after Gallant called on the government to pause discussions on a controversial judicial reform bill. (MSN)