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Mark Carney succeeds Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada after winning the Liberal Party leadership election.
- From February 26 to March 9, 2025, members of the Liberal Party of Canada voted on a successor for Justin Trudeau after he announced his intent to resign as party leader and prime minister of Canada.
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In the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney wins the election to succeed Justin Trudeau and becomes the next prime minister of Canada.
- From February 26 to March 9, 2025, members of the Liberal Party of Canada voted on a successor for Justin Trudeau after he announced his intent to resign as party leader and prime minister of Canada.
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Former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is arrested on the basis of an International Criminal Court warrant charging him with crimes against humanity.
- On March 11, 2025, former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by the Philippine National Police and Interpol on the basis of an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant charging him with crimes against humanity in connection with the Philippine drug war. Duterte arrived at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila on March 11, after attending a political rally in Hong Kong. Upon the execution of the warrant, Duterte was transferred to Villamor Air Base and transported to the Netherlands, where he is expected to face trial in The Hague.
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In Pakistan, a train hijacking by the Balochistan Liberation Army leaves at least 71 people dead.
- The Jaffar Express, a Pakistani passenger train travelling from Quetta to Peshawar with at least 380 passengers on board, was hijacked by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) on 11 March 2025. The attackers detonated explosives in tunnels and on the train tracks before opening fire on the train, halting it in a mountainous terrain that made it difficult for authorities to intervene. The organization issued a 48-hour ultimatum in which Baloch political prisoners had to be released or else the hostages were to be killed, although they had released some of them. As a result, Pakistan Railways temporarily suspended its train operations between Balochistan and the provinces of Punjab and Sindh.
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Intuitive Machines' Athena lands on the Moon at an incorrect angle and is unable to complete its mission.
- IM-2 was a lunar mission run by Intuitive Machines as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. It was launched on February 27, 2025, at 00:16:30 UTC. The Nova-C lunar lander, named Athena, reached the surface of the Moon on March 6, 2025, at 17:28:50 UTC. Contact was temporarily lost during the landing process; when it was re-established, it indicated that the spacecraft was not in the correct orientation and one of the two radio antennas was not operating. The sideways orientation prevented the spacecraft from generating sufficient power. By March 7, Athena's power had been fully depleted and was not expected to replenish, bringing the mission to its end.
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In computing, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are awarded the Turing Award for their work on reinforcement learning.
- Andrew Gehret Barto (born 1948 or 1949) is an American computer scientist, currently Professor Emeritus of computer science at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Barto is best known for his foundational contributions to the field of modern computational reinforcement learning.
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- Richard S. Sutton (born 1957 or 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist. He is a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta and a research scientist at Keen Technologies.
Sutton is considered one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning, having several significant contributions to the field, including temporal difference learning and policy gradient methods.
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Martin Pfister is elected to the Swiss Federal Council.
- After the resignation of federal councillor and defense minister Viola Amherd, Martin Pfister was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 12 March 2025.
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M23 campaign (ongoing)
- The M23 campaign is an ongoing series of military offensives launched by the March 23 Movement (M23), a Rwandan-backed rebel paramilitary group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, since March 2022. In November 2021, the M23 first launched attacks against the Congolese military (FARDC) and MONUSCO, seizing military positions in Ndiza, Cyanzu, and Runyoni in North Kivu Province. This coincided with the deployment of Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) to the region to combat the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan rebel group operating in the Congo's North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine (ongoing)
- On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had started in 2014. The invasion, the largest and deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
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Sudanese civil war (ongoing)
- A civil war between two major rival factions of the military government of Sudan began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023. The two opponent factions consist of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies (collectively the Janjaweed coalition) under the Janjaweed leader Hemedti. Minor factions have also participated in the fighting, allying with either major combatant or remaining opposed to both; these include the Darfur Joint Protection Force; the SLM (al-Nur) under Abdul Wahid al-Nur; and the SPLM-N under Abdelaziz al-Hilu. Fighting has been concentrated around the capital city of Khartoum (the largest and initial battle of the war) and the Darfur region.
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