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March 8, 2023
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2023-03-08
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Kivu conflict
Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
Mukondi massacre
Allied Democratic Forces
jihadist
insurgents
use
machetes
to kill about 40 people in the village of Mukondi,
North Kivu
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
.
(Reuters)
Syrian civil war
Iranian involvement in the Syrian civil war
A
drone strike
on a
Iranian
-backed
weapons factory
by an unknown attacker in
Deir ez-Zor Governorate
,
Syria
, kills seven people and injures 15 others, according to the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
, which describes the dead as three
Afghan
fighters, three
Syrian
civilians
and one unidentified Syrian.
(Arab News)
Business and economy
March 2023 United States bank failures
American
commercial bank
and
cryptocurrency
services provider
Silvergate Bank
winds down its operations and liquidates its assets.
(CNBC)
Law and crime
Foreign nationals detained in Iran
A court in
Iran
sentences
a 64-year-old
Irish
-
French
tourist
to six-and-a-half years in prison for
spying
for "an enemy country".
(BBC News)
Killing of Breonna Taylor
The
United States Department of Justice
finds "reasonable cause to believe" that the
Louisville Metro Police Department
violated citizens'
civil rights
. The investigation was started in response to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.
(BBC News)
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