Portal:Current events/2023 March 30

March 30, 2023 (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Internal conflict in Myanmar
- Eight people are killed by a bombing in a village in Chin State, Myanmar. (AP)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Four people are killed and six others are injured by two roadside bombings targeting police in Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

Health and environment

New Zealand records its first case of rabies in a human. A patient who had been in hospital since early March died from the disease, which did not spread further. (News24)

International relations

Enlargement of NATO, Finland–NATO relations
- Finland–Turkey relations
  - The Turkish Parliament unanimously votes to accept Finland's NATO application, becoming the last member to do so. (Al Jazeera)
Iran–United States relations
- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules that the United States violated its 1955 friendship treaty with Iran when it allowed its domestic courts to freeze assets held by Iranian companies, but said that the ICJ does not have jurisdiction over the US$1.75 billion worth of frozen assets held by the Central Bank of Iran. Both countries claimed victory in the ruling. (Reuters)
European colonization of the Americas
- The Vatican officially repudiates the discovery doctrine, writing that the 15th-century papal bulls which promoted it were "manipulated for political purposes by competing colonial powers in order to justify immoral acts against indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesiastical authorities". (Al Jazeera)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Lawmakers from the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria walkout from the lower house of Austria's parliament during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a protest against the violation of Austria's national principle of neutrality. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime