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March 16, 2025 (2025-03-16) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Red Sea crisis
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
  - TheHouthi health ministry announces that the death toll from yesterday's strikes by theU.S. inYemen rose to 53, with 98 injured.(BBC)
- The Houthis claim that they targetedUSS Harry S. Truman with 18 rockets anddrones. No damage has been reported.(Al Jazeera Arabic)
Insurgency in Balochistan
- Eleven people are killed and 21 more are injured in asuicide bombing targeting aFrontier Corps convoy on a highway inNushki,Balochistan,Pakistan. TheBalochistan Liberation Army claims responsibility, claiming they killed 90security personnel.(India Today)(WION)

Disasters and accidents

Kočani nightclub fire
- At least 59 people are killed and more than 152 others are injured after a fire breaks out in a nightclub during a concert inKočani,North Macedonia.(Al Jazeera)
Tornado outbreak of March 13–16, 2025
- The death toll from thetornadoes across severalstates in the U.S. increases to 40.(ABC News)
At least 16 people are killed and 18 others are injured when anunexploded ordnance from theSyrian civil war explodes and causes a building to collapse inLatakia,Latakia Governorate,Syria.(AP)(DW)
TheWilhelmina Tower inValkenburg,Netherlands, built in 1906 and designated aRijksmonument, collapses.(NOS)

Politics and elections