Russia launches cruise missiles at targets across Ukraine. Buildings and critical infrastructure are damaged, and at least five civilians were killed in Lviv Oblast when a missile destroyed their home, according to the region's governor Maksym Kozytskyy.
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March 9, 2023 (Thursday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Three people are wounded by a shooting on Dizengoff Street, in Tel Aviv. The perpetrator is killed by police.
At least 25 people are killed when Boko Haram gunmen storm a fishing village in Dikwa, Borno, Nigeria.
Eleven people are killed and four others are injured during an operation to retake territory in northeast Burkina Faso.
Daud Muzamil, the Taliban-appointed governor of Balkh Province, is killed by an Islamic State suicide bomber at his office in Mazar-i-Sharif. Two civilians are also killed during the attack and four others wounded.
Three Palestinian Islamic Jihad members are killed by Israeli special units during a operation in Jenin, West Bank.
Business and economy
The Belgian government announces a ban on gambling advertising, citing an increase in gambling addiction. Beginning in 2028, gambling companies will also no longer be able to sponsor professional sports clubs.
Disasters and accidents
The wreckage of a Cessna 206 that was reported missing on January 24 in Isabela, Philippines, is found in Divilacan, with all six people aboard confirmed dead. Retrieval operations are ongoing.
Fourteen people are killed and 54 others are rescued after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the Tunisian coast.
Law and crime
The parliament of Uganda begins debates on a proposed bill that would criminalize people identifying as part of the LGBTQ community with up to 10 years in prison. The bill would also criminalize the "promotion" of homosexuality and "abetting" or "conspiring" to engage in same-sex relations.
Mexico's Gulf Cartel surrenders five purported perpetrators of last weekend's kidnapping of four U.S. citizens in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and offers an apology to the victims, their families, and society in general.
Georgia's ruling party announces that it will withdraw a controversial bill concerning foreign agents which had prompted days of protests across the country.
Six people and an unborn baby are killed, and eight others are injured, in a mass shooting at a Jehovah's Witnesses centre in Hamburg, Germany. The perpetrator kills himself after the shooting.
President Alexander Lukashenko signs a bill into law which allows the use of the death penalty on officials and military servicemen convicted of high treason.
Politics and elections
The French Senate votes 201–115 to raise the legal retirement age in France from 62 to 64 despite mass strikes against the change.
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