Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The U.S. says that Russia and Ukraine agree to cease all military attacks in the Black Sea to ensure safe passage for commercial shipping, while Russia says that it needs guarantees and an order from the U.S. to Ukraine to respect such a deal. (BBC News) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• March 2025 South Korea wildfires
  • A wildfire in Uiseong County, South Korea, spreads uncontrollably to the north and east, resulting in at least 9 deaths and forcing tens of thousands of civilians to evacuate. (Yonhap)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • Airstrike campaign in Yemen
    • March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
      • United States government Signal group chat leak
        • A Signal group chat containing many of President Trump's cabinet, discussing several topics including potential strikes in Yemen, is discovered after journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is accidentally added to it. (CNN)
      • The U.S. military launches air raids across Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen overnight, killing at least four people and injuring 13 others in the capital city Sanaa. (Middle East Eye)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian re-occupation of Sumy Oblast
    • Ninety people are injured, including 17 children, in a Russian missile attack on a hospital, a school, and a residential area in Sumy, Ukraine. (Le Monde)
  • Luhansk Oblast campaign
    • A Ukrainian artillery strike kills six people, including several journalists from Russia's Izvestia newspaper and Zvezda state media network in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The United States and Russia conclude talks focusing on a ceasefire for the Black Sea between Kyiv and Moscow. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
  • British supermarket chain Morrisons announces that it will permanently close 52 cafés and 17 stores as part of cost-cutting measures, with the loss of at least 365 jobs expected. (BBC News)
• American genetic testing company 23andMe files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announces plans to sell its assets. (AP)

International relations

• Proposed United States acquisition of Greenland
  • Greenlandic prime minister Múte Bourup Egede says a planned visit to the island by senior American officials, including National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and Second Lady Usha Vance, is "highly aggressive" and was designed to "demonstrate power over us". (CNN)

Law and crime

• 2025 Turkish protests
  • Over 1,100 Turkish anti-government protesters have been detained since the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan accusing the demonstrations of being a "movement of violence". (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• Impeachment of Han Duck-soo
  • The Constitutional Court of South Korea dismisses the impeachment motion of prime minister Han Duck-soo by the National Assembly of South Korea in a 7–1 vote. (Yonhap) (Reuters)
• One man is killed and another person wounded in a combined ramming, stabbing, and shooting attack by an unidentified assailant at a bus stop in Yokneam Illit, Israel. (Reuters)

March 25: Feast of the Annunciation (Christianity); Bangladesh Genocide Remembrance Day

• 1458 – Wars of the Roses: A formal reconciliation ceremony between the Lancastrians and Yorkists led to a brief period of peace.
• 1725 – Bach's chorale cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern was first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, which coincided that year with Palm Sunday.
• 1934 – Enrico Fermi (pictured) published his discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• 1949 – The Soviet Union began mass deportations of more than 90,000 "undesirable" people from the Baltic states to Siberia.