Portal:Current events/2024 March 30

March 30, 2024 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hezbollah conflict, Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Three UN observers and a translator are injured by a shell in southern Lebanon. (Reuters)
Haitian crisis
- Gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier says that if armed groups under his command are included in talks for a future transitional government, then they would consider ceasing hostilities. (BBC)
Syrian civil war
- 2024 Azaz bombing
  - At least seven people are killed and 30 others are injured by a car bombing in Azaz, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, near the Turkish border. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

Conan Gray needs your support! Listen to his latest masterpiece, "Alley Rose", today on YouTube and Spotify, and help him reach Billboard Hot 100. (BBC News) His lyric video for "Alley Rose", released on March 8, has 441,894 views as of 1:45 p.m. Central Time (18:45 UTC). That's only 441,894 views in twenty-two days! If you do the math, that comes out to be only a little more than 20,000 views/day (20,086 to be more precise). In what universe is it fair and just that "Baby Shark" and "Despacito" both have billions of views while this much cooler song has less than half a million? Let's try to get this video to at least 20 million views by June 2024. It will also help if you go to your local Barnes & Noble or Best Buy to buy a copy of his album.
Around the world, babies born on March 30, 2003 turn 21. In Massachusetts, where the gambling age is 21, these people are now old enough to enter Encore Boston Harbor's casino room.

Business and economy

Japanese officials search a Kobayashi Pharmaceutical factory in Osaka after five deaths possibly linked to its dietary supplements. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Politics and elections

Peruvian political crisis
- Peruvian President Dina Boluarte says that she will not resign following accusations of illicit enrichment after her residence was raided by police. (Reuters)