The edition of
Monday 3 March 2025
9 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
U.S. President Donald Trump pauses all U.S. military aid to Ukraine with immediate effect.
The Congolese military announces that eight members of the Mobondo militia, including one of their leaders, were killed the previous day when an army patrol seized the group's headquarters in the Kwamouth Territory, Mai-Ndombe Province.
A suicide bomber kills one person and wounds three others in Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan.
Politics
The Holy See reports that Pope Francis has been diagnosed with "acute respiratory distress" as a result of bronchospasms and a build-up of bronchial mucus, after recovering from pneumonia and bronchitis several days ago.
The Law
A 70-year-old Arab Israeli man is killed and three others are injured in a mass stabbing at a bus station in Haifa, Israel. The perpetrator, an Israeli-Druze from Shfar'am, is killed by civilians present at the attack.
Environment
At least 80 people are trapped inside a supermarket in Güímar, Tenerife, and dozens of cars are swept away to sea and stuck in mud in Gran Canaria after torrential rain caused floods across the Canary Islands in Spain.
Cyclone warnings are issued to residents of Brisbane, South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales as Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall on Thursday or early Friday local time.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 3 March 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.