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Current Operations

• March 28 Red Sea Update CENTCOM 28 Mar 2024 -- Between 6:00 and 10:56 p.m. (Sanaa time) on March 28, and for the second day in a row, U.S. Central Command successfully engaged and destroyed four unmanned aerial systems (UAS) launched by Iranian backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen. These UAS were aimed at a Coalition vessel and a U.S. warship and were engaged in self-defense over the Red Sea. There were no injuries or damage reported to U.S. or coalition ships.
• U.S.-British coalition launches airstrike on Houthi stronghold in N. Yemen People's Daily 28 Mar 2024 -- The U.S.-British coalition launched airstrike on Yemen's northern province of Saada on Wednesday, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.

Defense Policy / Programs

• DoD Releases Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Strategy DoD 28 Mar 2024 -- Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) released its Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity (CS) Strategy, an actionable approach to maturing a more resilient Joint Force and Defense cybersecurity ecosystem. Spanning Fiscal Year 2024 - 2027, the DoD DIB CS Strategy provides a path forward for the Department's internal and industry-facing cybersecurity activities.
• Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Strategy Off-Camera On-The-Record Media Roundtable DoD 28 Mar 2024
• DOD Releases Strategy to Bolster Cybersecurity Across Industrial Base DoD News 28 Mar 2024 -- The Pentagon today released its first strategy aimed at enhancing cybersecurity across defense industry stakeholders.
• Space Force General Outlines U.S. Approach to Maintaining Space Superiority DoD News 28 Mar 2024 -- The chief of space operations laid out his vision for responsibly ensuring U.S. space superiority amid increasing competition in the domain.
• The Pentagon Transfers Authority to the Navy to Ensure the Safe Closure of Red Hill DoD 28 Mar 2024 -- The Department of Defense announced today that the Joint Task Force-Red Hill has completed its defueling mission at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Hawai'i and shifted command and control of the facility to the United States Navy. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment will continue to convene a Senior Steering Group on Red Hill to provide oversight and offer support to the Navy.
• Navy's Top Officer Credits Training, Logistics With Meeting Red Sea Mission DoD News 28 Mar 2024 -- Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti yesterday said she credits both a recent transformation in the Navy's surface warfare training regimen and the quality of logistics operations for the service's ability to successfully counter recent attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in the Red Sea.
• Marines, Sailors Arrive in Australia for 6 Months of Training, Exercises DoD News 28 Mar 2024 -- Approximately 2,000 Marines and sailors deployed to Australia's Northern Territory this week to participate alongside their counterparts in the annual iteration of Marine Rotational Force-Darwin, the Pentagon announced today.
• Air Force Chief Focuses on Threats, Empowering Airmen Who Defend Against Them DoD News 28 Mar 2024 -- Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said his No. 1 priority is ensuring his programs, training and people are ready to deal with threats from high-end adversaries or others.
• 25th ID helps test enhanced command post communications Army News 28 Mar 2024 -- Soldiers on the Hawaiian isles are testing an updated software package to allow commanders better communications on the modern battlefield.
• Fort Walker updates, improves targetry systems enhancing training mission support Army News 28 Mar 2024 -- There's a place in Northern Virginia, tucked away and unassuming, where Soldiers come to hone their combat advantage, and while you might not think Fort Walker has a reputation as a heavyweight on Team Army, this installation packs a big punch when it comes to Warfighter training.
• B-1B strategic bombers arrive at Morón Air Base for latest Bomber Task Force deployment under Large Scale Global Exercise 2024 EUCOM 28 Mar 2024 -- Two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, landed at Morón Air Base, Spain, to make four total U.S. bombers on station and complete the arrival of Bomber Task Force 24-2, Mar. 26, 2024.
• U.S. Marines, Sailors arrive in Darwin for 13th iteration of MRF-D USMC News 28 Mar 2024 -- A new group of Marines and Sailors arrived in the Northern Territory to begin the 13th annual iteration of Marine Rotational Force - Darwin.
• NATO and Lithuania mark 20 years of Baltic Air Policing NATO 28 Mar 2024 -- Senior civilian and military representatives from Lithuania, several Allies and NATO gathered at Šiauliai, Lithuania for a handover ceremony marking 20 years of Baltic Air Policing also marking 20 years of Lithuania's membership in NATO.
• Government proposal on Defence Cooperation Agreement between Finland and United States sent out for comments Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland 28 Mar 2024 -- Finland and the United States signed a Defence Cooperation Agreement in Washington DC on 18 December 2023. A draft government proposal to Parliament on the acceptance of the agreement was sent out for comments on 28 March 2024. The draft proposal was prepared by a wide-ranging cross-government working group, led by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
• Pacific Fleet's detachment passes through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and enters the Red Sea Russia MoD 28 Mar 2024 -- A detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet made up of the missile cruiser Guards Order of Nakhimov Varyag and frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov has passed the Bab al-Mandab Strait and entered the Red Sea.
• Russian Deputy Defence Minister Aleksandr Fomin holds talks with Myanmar's Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Russia MoD 28 Mar 2024 -- On 28 March 2024, in Naypyidaw, the Republic of Myanmar, the Russian delegation headed by Deputy Russian Defence Minister Colonel General Aleksandr Fomin, held talks with Chairman of the State Administrative Council / Prime Minister / Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services of the Republic of the Union Myanmar, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
• Briefing on ARMY 2024 Forum for foreign military attaches takes place in Patriot Congress Centre Russia MoD 28 Mar 2024 -- The Patriot Congress and Exhibition Centre held a briefing for representatives of the military-diplomatic corps of foreign states on the 10th Jubilee ARMY 2024 International Military and Technical Forum.
• Allies reaffirm commitment to strengthen Ukraine's defences at NATO-Ukraine Council meeting NATO 28 Mar 2024 -- The NATO-Ukraine Council met on Thursday (28 March 2024) following recent Russian airstrikes on Ukraine. Allies strongly condemned the escalation in Russian air strikes and reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen Ukraine's defences.
• War in Ukraine - The arms and military equipment Germany is sending to Ukraine Germany - Federal Government 28 Mar 2024 -- Germany provides support for Ukraine by supplying equipment and weapons, these come from supplies of the Federal Arms Forces and from deliveries from industry financed from the Federal Government's funds for security capacity building. An overview.
• Minister of National Defence L. Kasčiūnas virtually met with Minister of Defence of Ukraine R. Umerov Lithuania MND 28 Mar 2024 -- On March 27 Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas had a distance meeting with Minister of Defence of Ukraine Rustem Umerov.
• President discussed the necessity of passing a decision on the assistance to Ukraine with the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives President of Ukraine 28 Mar 2024
• Zelenskiy Tells U.S. Speaker Military Aid Package 'Critically Important' RFE/RL 28 Mar 2024 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy personally appealed to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (Republican-Louisiana) to help deliver "critically important" military aid to Kyiv to help it fend off escalating Russian attacks.
• Zelenskyy Says He Urged House Speaker Johnson to Hold Ukraine Aid Vote VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he spoke with the U.S. speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and encouraged him to hold a vote approving more U.S. military aid for Ukraine.
• Australian team plays pivotal role in US project Australia DOD 28 Mar 2024 -- A group of ADF and contracted specialists from the Land Network Integration Centre (LNIC) and soldiers from the 3rd Combat Signal Regiment established and maintained a network required to conduct Australia's contribution to Project Convergence.
• Department of Defence Production issues notification for re-organisation of DGQA India PIB 28 Mar 2024 -- In a major reform towards 'Ease of Doing Business' and to achieve Aatmnirbharta in Defence, the Department of Defence Production under the Ministry of Defence has issued notification for re-organisation of Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA) which is aimed at speeding up Quality Assurance processes and trials and reducing layers of decision-making
• Symbolic transfer of the Baltic airspace key ceremony marks the 20th anniversary of the NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission and Lithuania's NATO membership Lithuania MND 28 Mar 2024 -- 20 years ago, on March 29, at 16:47 in the afternoon, the first Allied F-16 fighter jets of the Belgian Air Force entered the Lithuanian airspace and touched down at the Lithuanian Air Force Base in Šiauliai thus beginning the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states. 20 years ago Lithuania became a full-fledged member of NATO, the strongest defensive Alliance in the world.
• U.S. assistance to strengthen critical Lithuanian Armed Forces capabilities Lithuania MND 28 Mar 2024 -- The U.S. Congress passed a piece of Government funding legislation earlier this week which includes USD 228 million for the Baltic Security Initiative (BSI), one third of the amount is dedicated to Lithuania. The United States aid is aimed to support critical capabilities of the Lithuanian Armed Forces: air defence, maritime situational awareness, ammunition, strengthening the regional long-range artillery capability.
• A look at the Defence news 18 - 24 March Netherlands Ministry of Defence 28 Mar 2024
• Estonia to contribute to EU Aspides military operation in Red Sea region Estonia MoD 28 Mar 2024 -- The Government of Estonia decided today on Estonia's participation in the European Union's military operation EUNAVFOR Aspides in the Red Sea region. The duration of the operation is initially planned to be one year, to be extended if necessary.

Defense Industry

• Contracts For March 28, 2024
• Man Pleads Guilty to Selling $3.5M in Counterfeit and Deficient Electronics for Use in Military Systems US Dept. of Justice 28 Mar 2024 -- A California man pleaded guilty yesterday to a scheme to defraud the Department of Defense's (DoD) Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) by selling over $3.5 million worth of fan assemblies to the DLA that were either counterfeit or misrepresented to be new.

Other Conflicts

Ukraine Conflict News


• 28 March 2024 - Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General United Nations 28 Mar 2024

Operation Iron Swords / Operation Al-Aqsa Flood

• Press Briefing by IDF Spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, March 28, 2024 Israel Defense Forces 28 Mar 2024
• PM Netanyahu Meets with Families of the Soldiers who are being held Hostage by Hamas Israel - Prime Minister 28 Mar 2024
• Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 32,490: ministry People's Daily 28 Mar 2024 -- The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks has risen to 32,490, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
• Gaza: World court issues fresh measures for Israel as crisis deepens UN News 28 Mar 2024 -- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday issued new provisional measures for Israel as the humanitarian situation in bombarded and besieged Gaza continues to deteriorate.
• Health system 'barely surviving' as OCHA calls for Gaza aid restrictions to end UN News 28 Mar 2024 -- Gaza's health system is 'barely surviving' after more than five months of Israeli bombardment, the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
• Media Quote by UN Humanitarian Coordinator about increase of Civilian Casualties in South Lebanon UNOCHA 28 Mar 2024
• UN Court Orders Israel to Open More Aid Paths into Gaza VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- The top United Nations court on Thursday ordered Israel in a legally binding decree to open more land crossings into Gaza to allow more humanitarian aid for famished Palestinians into the territory.
• Lebanese, Italian PMs call for full implementation of UN resolution on Gaza ceasefire People's Daily 28 Mar 2024 -- Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday welcomed the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, calling for its full implementation.
• 9 killed, 7 injured in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon People's Daily 28 Mar 2024 -- Nine people were killed and seven others injured on Wednesday in Israeli airstrikes targeting several towns and villages in southern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.

Other Conflicts

• Philippines President Condemns Chinese 'Attacks,' Vows 'Proportionate' Countermeasures VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- The Philippines said it will take retaliatory measures against what President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Thursday called "dangerous attacks" by China on its vessels in the South China Sea, the latest instance of escalating tensions between the two nations.
• China condemns Philippines' trick of 'playing victim' Global Times 28 Mar 2024 -- Chinese authorities on Thursday criticized the Philippines' tricks of "playing victim" in the South China Sea and reiterated that China will not allow it to act willfully and has sufficient strategic resolve.
• US Unfazed as India Engages Taliban VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- Just two weeks after senior Indian diplomat J.P. Singh visited Kabul to meet with Taliban officials, a senior U.S. official landed in New Delhi to discuss Afghanistan.
• Amnesty International Calls On Pakistan To Stop Expelling Afghan Girls And Women RFE/RL 28 Mar 2024 -- Amnesty International has urged Pakistan to halt expelling hundreds of thousands of Afghan girls and women to neighboring Afghanistan.
• UN Security Council condemns terrorist attack in Pakistan People's Daily 28 Mar 2024 -- The Security Council on Wednesday condemned Tuesday's heinous and cowardly terrorist attack near Besham, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, which resulted in the deaths of five Chinese nationals and one Pakistani.
• Rohingya activists call for more control of aid money Radio Free Asia 28 Mar 2024 -- Rohingya Muslim activists representing fellow refugees forced out of Myanmar and into "prison-like" camps in Bangladesh said in Washington on Thursday that foreign aid to the camps would go further if some of it was given directly to refugee-run groups.
• DR Congo: More than 44,000 people receive emergency food aid as violence in eastern provinces intensifies ICRC 28 Mar 2024 -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the Red Cross Society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has provided food aid to over 44,000 newly arrived displaced people in camps around Goma, in North Kivu province. A further 18,000 people in Nzulo camp, outside Goma, received essential relief items.
• 29th Meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on India-China Border Affairs India MEA 28 Mar 2024 -- The 29th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) was held on 27 March 2024 in Beijing. Joint Secretary (East Asia) from the Ministry of External Affairs led the Indian delegation.
• UK to nearly double aid for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens UK FCDO 28 Mar 2024 -- The UK announced more support for people in Sudan, including funding to UNICEF for emergency food assistance and support for survivors of gender-based violence.
• UNHCR and partners urge renewed support for South Sudanese refugees with new funding appeal UNHCR 28 Mar 2024 -- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with 123 partners, is seeking $1.4 billion this year to meet the needs of 2.3 million South Sudanese refugees living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda. A similar number of people living in local communities in the five asylum countries will benefit from services and support provided through a Regional Refugee Response Plan.
• New $1.4 billion plan to support South Sudanese refugees UN News 28 Mar 2024 -- The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and partners on Thursday appealed for $1.4 billion this year to support more than two million South Sudanese refugees in five African countries and local communities hosting them.
• Somali Government Says at Least 80 al-Shabab Militants Killed in Attacks VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- The Somali government said Thursday its soldiers — backed by international partners and local clan militias — killed about 80 al-Shabab militants and wounded dozens more in three operations in the country's southern and central regions.
• UN: Haiti Gangs Kill 1,500 in Three Months VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- Gang violence has killed more than 1,500 people in Haiti so far this year, the United Nations said Thursday, as it deplored the continuing stream of weapons pouring into the Caribbean Island nation.
• Bold action needed now to address 'cataclysmic' situation in Haiti UN News 28 Mar 2024 -- Immediate and bold action is required to tackle the "cataclysmic" situation in Haiti, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report issued on Thursday.
• Security Council Again Fails to Hold Meeting Marking Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Bombing in Former Yugoslavia UN Security Council 28 Mar 2024 -- For the second time this week, the Security Council today did not hold a meeting, requested by the Russian Federation, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1999 aerial bombing campaign carried out by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against the former Yugoslavia, having failed to adopt the provisional agenda to do so after a procedural vote was requested by France. (For background, see Press Release SC/15642.)

News Reports

• WHO Member States agree to resume negotiations aimed at finalizing the world's first pandemic agreement WHO 28 Mar 2024
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's telephone conversation with Tanzanian Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation January Makamba Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Mar 2024
• Latvian Broker Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Advanced U.S. Aircraft Technology to Russia US Dept. of Justice 28 Mar 2024 -- In a superseding indictment returned by a grand jury, a citizen of the Republic of Latvia is charged with crimes related to a years-long conspiracy to sell sophisticated avionics equipment to Russian companies, in violation of U.S. export laws. The defendant is the third to be arrested and charged in connection with the conspiracy led by a Kansas company and two U.S. nationals.
• White House Reveals Urgency of Warning Russians of Potential Terror Attack VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- Duty to warn. It is the obligation that the United States says it takes upon itself if the intelligence community is able to identify an impending threat to a particular country.
• What A Missed Terror Warning Says About U.S.-Russian Ties And Putin's Thinking RFE/RL 28 Mar 2024 -- In December 2017, just a few weeks before millions of Russians were to begin celebrating New Year's - one of the country's most beloved holidays - Russia's main intelligence agency announced it had foiled an Islamic State plot to kill revelers as they visited prominent attractions in the country's second largest city, St. Petersburg.
• U.S. Again Dismisses Russian Assertion Of Ukrainian Link To Concert Hall Attackers RFE/RL 28 Mar 2024 -- The White House has again dismissed Russia's allegation that Ukraine was involved in the attack on the Crocus City concert hall and said that the United States had passed clear and detailed information to Russian security services about an extremist attack in Moscow in advance of the attack.
• Tajik Man Detained In St. Petersburg Amid Migrant Crackdown RFE/RL 28 Mar 2024 -- A 26-year-old Tajik national has been detained in St. Petersburg on a charge of justifying terrorism, the Investigative Committee said on March 28.
• Russia: Rights experts condemn continued imprisonment of Evan Gershkovich UN News 28 Mar 2024 -- Russia must immediately release American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained without evidence for a year, two UN human rights experts said on Thursday.
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with President of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Bafel Talabani Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Mar 2024
• Telephone conversation with President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa President of Russia 28 Mar 2024 -- Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa.
• Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian's Regular Press Conference on March 28, 2024 PRC MofA 28 Mar 2024
• MSS warns of foreign spy agencies stealing national secrets through 'consulting and investigation' Global Times 28 Mar 2024 -- China's national security agency released a microfilm on Thursday adapted from a real case, revealing how a foreign intelligence agency used investigation and consulting activities as a cover to steal sensitive information from China's key sectors, thus posing a serious risk to national security and interests.
• Chinese Diplomat Liu Jianchao Meets With Singapore's Leaders VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- Liu Jianchao, the senior diplomat widely expected to become China's next foreign minister, said "the world needs connectivity, not decoupling," during a four-day visit to Singapore.
• US, Argentina to Cooperate, Combat Illegal Chinese Fishing VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- Starting next month, the U.S. Coast Guard and Argentine Navy will begin conducting joint exercises aimed at combating illegal Chinese fishing in the Atlantic Ocean.
• China to Drive World Economic Recovery, Says a Top Communist Official VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- Brushing off domestic economic headwinds, a top Communist Party official said Thursday that China aims to drive the world's recovery this year by pushing forward reforms and making tech innovation a new point of growth.
• PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan Mar. 28, 2024 ROC MND 28 Mar 2024
• Security Council Fails to Extend Mandate for Expert Panel Assisting Sanctions Committee on Democratic People's Republic of Korea UN Security Council 28 Mar 2024 -- The Security Council today failed to adopt a resolution that would have extended until 30 April 2025 the mandate of the Panel of Experts assisting the Sanctions Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea due to a veto cast by the Russian Federation — a permanent member of the Council — while numerous speakers underscored that Moscow's veto fuels suspicion and weakens the global non-proliferation architecture.
• Russia Uses Veto to Shut Down UN Sanctions Monitors on North Korea VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- Russia used its U.N. Security Council veto Thursday to end monitoring of U.N. sanctions against North Korea, after the monitors reported on Moscow's violations.
• Joint Statement following Russia's veto of the mandate renewal of the UN Security Council's 1718 Committee Panel of Experts UK FCDO 28 Mar 2024 -- Joint Statement on behalf of the United States, France, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the United Kingdom.
• Russia's veto is about its breaching of sanctions in pursuit of weapons to use against Ukraine: UK statement at the UN Security Council UK FCDO 28 Mar 2024 -- Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on nuclear non-non-proliferation and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
• Transcript of Weekly Media Briefing by the Official Spokesperson (March 28, 2024) India MEA 28 Mar 2024
• Transcript of the Press Briefing by the Spokesperson on Thursday, 28 March 2024 Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Mar 2024
• HKSAR gov't strongly disapproves of remarks on Safeguarding National Security Ordinance by International Bar Association People's Daily 28 Mar 2024 -- The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Wednesday strongly disapproved of and condemned the slanders and smears, as well as unfounded criticisms, made by the International Bar Association's human rights institute against the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.
• Hong Kong to strive for economic development after Article 23 legislation: HKSAR chief executive People's Daily 27 Mar 2024 -- John Lee, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said on Tuesday that the HKSAR has fulfilled its constitutional responsibility of enacting local legislation on Article 23 of the HKSAR Basic Law and will strive for economic development.
• Pakistan to Probe Military's Alleged Coercion of Senior Judges VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- Pakistan's government announced Thursday that it will set up a special commission to investigate allegations the military-run spy agency has been subjecting federal judges to intimidation, torture and other abuses to secure favorable judicial rulings in political cases.
• Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya asks the Congress to help people of Belarus establish democracy in their country Council of Europe 28 Mar 2024 -- The goal of the Belarusian democratic forces was to decentralise governance and foster greater empowerment and autonomy within local communities, stressed Leader of the Belarusian democratic forces Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya addressing the Congress session on 27 March 2024.
• Stakes Are High for Turkish President, Opposition in Local Elections VOA 28 Mar 2024 -- Millions of Turkish citizens will head to the polls Sunday to elect mayors and local administrators for their cities and districts.
• PM call with Prime Minister Petr Fiala of the Czech Republic: 28 March 2024 Gov.UK 28 Mar 2024
• Bulgaria Heading For Sixth Election In Three Years RFE/RL 28 Mar 2024 -- Bulgaria is preparing for yet another general election - the sixth since April 2021 - after the populist There Is Such a People (ITN) party on March 28 refused to form a government, the third party to decline the mandate.
• World News in Brief: Russia vetoes DPR Korea sanctions resolution, children under fire in Sudan, drought plagues Malawi UN News 28 Mar 2024 -- A United States resolution to extend the mandate of an expert panel which monitors sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was vetoed by Russia in the Security Council on Thursday.