Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Ukrainian drone strikes an oil pipeline in Rostov Oblast, Russia, setting the pipeline ablaze for several hours before being put out by firefighters. Russia also reports its air defence units repelled another drone attack near Novoshakhtinsk. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Second Trump tariffs
  • 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
    • U.S. President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports to the United States take effect, while an existing 10% tariff on all Chinese imports rises to 20% amid an ongoing trade war. (AP)
    • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says "Canada will not let this unjustified decision go unanswered" and says that he will impose a reciprocal 25% tariff on American goods worth up to $155 billion. (Canada.ca)
  • The Chinese Ministry of Finance announces 10–15% tariffs on a range of US food imports, set to take effect 10 March. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A Philippine Air Force FA-50PH fighter jet is reported missing during an overnight training exercise. A search and rescue operation to locate the missing pilots is underway. (Phil Star Global)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • U.S. President Donald Trump orders a pause on all U.S. military aid to Ukraine with immediate effect. (Bloomberg)
• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • 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. (Al Jazeera) (DW) (The Times of Israel)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • A suicide bomber kills one person and wounds three others in Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP News)
• Western DR Congo clashes
  • 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. (Radio Okapi)

Business and economy

• U.S. President Donald Trump announces that TSMC, a Taiwanese semiconductor chip company, will invest $100 billion in new manufacturing plants in the United States. (CBS News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season
  • 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. (The Guardian Australia)
• A bus rolls down a ravine after colliding with a truck in southern Bolivia, killing at least 31 people and injuring 22 others. (Reuters)
• 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. (Canaria Weekly) (The Sun)

Law and crime

• 2025 Mannheim car incident
  • A car drives into a crowd of people near a Carnival market in Mannheim, Germany, killing two people and injuring 25 others, including fifteen seriously. A man has been arrested. (Euronews) (DW)

Politics and election

• 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. (VOA) (NPR)