current Events/2022 March 19

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia says that on Friday it used the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile for the first time in Ukraine to destroy a weapons storage facility in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty-two people are killed and 38 more injured during a bus–truck collision in Melela Kibaoni, Morogoro Region, Tanzania. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • COVID-19 pandemic in Maharashtra
        • Maharashtra reports 97 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, making it the first time that the Indian state has reported less than 100 new cases of COVID-19 since April 2020. (Business Standard)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
      • China reports its first death from COVID-19 since January 2021. (ABC News)

International relations

• Nuclear program of Iran
  • Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney says that an agreement to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal could be reached within 48 hours. (Mehr News)

Politics and elections

• Politics of Australia
  • 2022 South Australian state election
    • Preliminary election results show Peter Malinauskas and his Labor Party winning a majority. (ABC News Australia)
• Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • An anti-NATO protest is held in Bulgaria during a meeting between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov to oppose Bulgaria selling weapons to Ukraine during the invasion. (Novinite) (The Bharat Express News)
• 2022 East Timorese presidential election
  • Timorese are called to the polls to choose the country's president. (Reuters)
• Serdar Berdimuhamedow is sworn-in as President of Turkmenistan, succeeding his father Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. (Yeni Şafak)

Sports

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Vanuatu, 2022 FIFA World Cup
    • Vanuatu withdraws from the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifier after several players and staff members on the team tested positive for COVID-19 amid a sudden spike in cases nationwide. (Times of India)