News Round Up – March 2024

Ukraine News

04 Mar: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-russia-ukraine-war-hybrid-attack-leaked-audio-taurus-missiles/

06 Mar: Russia’s spy leak reveals military communications risk

06 Mar: Ukraine’s Odesa rocked by deadly blast during visit by Zelensky and Greek PM

06 Mar: Tank Museum helps defence firm recreate tank tracks for Ukraine

07 Mar: Ukraine’s ex-army chief Zaluzhny appointed ambassador to UK

12 Mar: Ukraine war: The sea drones keeping Russia’s warships at bay

12 Mar: White House announces $300m stopgap military aid package for Ukraine

13 Mar: Russian fighters loyal to Ukraine launch largest cross border attacks since start of war

15 Mar: Swiss company helps Ukraine clear landmines

16 Mar: Crimea: 10 years on, fight to liberate peninsula continues

16 Mar: Russian border region closes malls and schools as Ukrainian attacks escalate

16 Mar: Russia missile attack on Ukraine’s Odesa kills at least 20 people

22 Mar: Russia targets Ukraine’s power facilities with wave of missiles, drones

24 Mar: Ukraine ‘hits two Russian warships in the Black Sea’

29 Mar: Europe in ‘pre-war era,’ warns Poland’s Prime Minister Tusk, citing Russia’s threat

Middle East

02 Mar: A ship earlier hit by Yemen’s Houthi rebels sinks in the Red Sea, the first vessel lost in conflict

06 Mar: Houthi attack kills three sailors in group’s first fatal strike on shipping

09 Mar: Red Sea: US, UK and French destroy dozens of Houthi drones

11 Mar: Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula announces death of leader Khalid Batarfi

16 Mar: Indian navy captures ship from Somali pirates, rescues crew

18 Mar: Who Was Marwan Issa, the Hamas Commander Killed by Israel?

29 Mar: Russian Warships Transit Red Sea to Eritrea as Houthis Resume Launches

29 Mar: More than 40 people killed in Israeli strikes on Syria’s Aleppo

News

04 Mar: MMR vaccine clinics at Coventry school see success as more on the way

04 Mar: How one ‘faulty valve’ lead to a chemical leak which sparked a major incident in Trafford

05 Mar: Yeovilton trains for worst case scenario with local emergency services

06 Mar: Dr Thomas Kwan of Ingleby Barwick faces ricin chemical weapon charges

07 Mar: UK government to buy Wylfa and Oldbury nuclear sites from Hitachi

07 Mar: Whooping cough warning issued as cases of infection soar in England

07 Mar: Lough Neagh: Toxic algae potentially waking again

07 Mar: U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Arrested and Charged with Conspiracy to Obtain and Disclose National Defense Information, Export Control Violations and Bribery

11 Mar: Norovirus Cases Surge In Cornwall: Health Authorities Urge Public Caution

12 Mar: Live explosive found in river by person fishing

12 Mar: Passengers on Dublin-bound flight told to contact HSE after confirmed measles case

13 Mar: Oppenheimer’s signed Manhattan Project report sells for $54k

13 Mar: South Korean held in Russia on espionage allegation is missionary helping the needy, his group says

15 Mar: Al-Shabab fighters killed as overnight siege of Mogadishu hotel ends

18 Mar: Czech Republic grapples with surge of whooping cough

18 Mar: Student anarchist jailed for 13 years over terror guide for ‘misfits and nobodies’

19 Mar: Maidstone man charged after corrosive powder thrown at police

19 Mar: Unexploded ordnance on West Sussex beach made safe

19 Mar: Brazil’s Bolsonaro indicted for suspected falsification of his personal vaccine records

19 Mar: Nuclear test veterans offer to settle legal claims over ‘withheld’ medical records

20 Mar: Uganda on alert as IS-linked ADF militants cross border from DR Congo

22 Mar: At least 115 killed and scores wounded in Moscow concert hall attack

23 Mar: US had warned Russia ISIS was determined to attack

26 Mar: Man arrested after Gardaí seize explosives, drugs and scrambler in Dublin raids

24 Mar: As Russia mourns victims of concert hall shooting, how will Putin react?

26 Mar: Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman died in Peacehaven

27 Mar: Pop-up clinics launched in Staffordshire to combat measles

28 Mar: Prison inmates and staff taken to hospital with food poisoning

28 Mar: Russia criticised for using veto to end UN monitoring of North Korea sanctions

29 Mar: Russian influence scandal rocks EU

30 Mar: China’s UK election hack – how and why

30 Mar: Japan’s Kobayashi Pharma factory inspected amid red yeast rice pill scare

Technology

29 Feb: AFRL’s XQ-67A Loyal Wingman makes 1st successful flight

29 Feb: Protecting Joints from Bacteria with Mussels

03 Mar: Forensic spray using jellyfish protein could speed up fingerprint detection

05 Mar: Tiny worms tolerate Chernobyl radiation

05 Mar: Possible ‘Trojan Horse’ found for treating stubborn bacterial infections

05 Mar: Special insecticide paint may help curb Zika and dengue fever outbreaks

05 Mar: One way to improve a fusion reaction: Use weaknesses as strengths

06 Mar: MOD issues AI technology to help Colchester soldiers shoot down drones

06 Mar: ‘Hypervaccinated’ man reportedly received 217 Covid jabs without side effects

09 Mar: Stratolaunch Celebrates First Powered Flight of Talon A-1 Test Vehicle

11 Mar: Declassified video shows DragonFire laser weapon in action

13 Mar: New research to develop vaccines against deadly henipaviruses 

14 Mar: AI weapons scanner Evolv backtracks on UK testing claims

19 Mar: US Air Force conducts final test of Lockheed’s hypersonic missile

26 Mar: Royal Navy Selects SEA’s Ancilia Decoy Launching System

28 Mar: Generative AI develops potential new drugs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria

28 Mar: ‘Abzymes’ May Cause Long COVID

30 Mar: ECCMID 2024: Case report from Austria shows mpox breakthrough infection in man who had received both vaccine doses

30 Mar: ECCMID 2024: Swedish study indicates a significant decline of neutralising antibodies to monkeypox virus already during the first month after vaccination

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