Portal:Current events/2024 March 11

March 11, 2024 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Haitian crisis
- Gang war in Haiti
  - The European Union evacuates all diplomatic staff from Haiti. (Politico)
  - The Caribbean Community holds an emergency summit in Kingston, Jamaica, in response to the deteriorating security situation in Haiti. (Al Jazeera)
  - Haitian prime minister Ariel Henry agrees to resign when a transitional presidential council is formed. (AP)
Red Sea crisis
- Houthi officials say that at least 17 U.S. and British airstrikes across western Yemen, including in Al Hudaydah, have killed eleven people and injured 14 others. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

LATAM Airlines Flight 800
- A LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-9 enroute between Sydney and Auckland loses altitude due to a technical issue, injuring 50 passengers and crew. (BBC News)
Five skiers are found dead after they went missing two days ago while travelling from the town of Zermatt to the village of Arolla in Switzerland. A sixth skier is still missing. (AP)
Two New Zealand skiers are killed and another is injured during an avalanche on Mount Yotei in Hokkaido, Japan. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

A man fatally stabs his wife and three children then himself in Manoa of Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

Former Conservative Party deputy chairman and Ashfield MP Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK, becoming the party's first member of parliament. Anderson was suspended by the Conservatives after claiming that London mayor Sadiq Khan was "controlled" by radical Islamists. (BBC News)