Portal:Current events/2026 March 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Iranian strikes on Israel
      • Fifteen people are injured in central Israel in Iranian ballistic missile strikes. (Ynet Global)
    • Iran threatens to retaliate against the energy and water systems of the Gulf countries if United States president Donald Trump follows through with his 48-hours ultimatum to ​hit Iran's electricity grid. (Reuters)
  • Hezbollah–Israel conflict
    • 2026 Lebanon war
      • One person is killed after a rocket fired from Lebanon struck a vehicle near Israel's northern border, marking the first reported Israeli fatality from cross-border fire since hostilities with Hezbollah resumed earlier in March. (AFP via The Daily Star)
      • The Israeli military destroys the largest bridge crossing the Litani River in southern Lebanon. (AA)
• Terrorism in the United Kingdom
  • 2026 Hatzola arson attack
    • At least four Hatzalah ambulances are set ablaze and destroyed in an apparent anti-semitic arson attack in Golders Green, London, England. No casualties are reported. (The Jerusalem Post)

Arts and culture

• The funeral of Patriarch Ilia II, the former head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, is held at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is laid to rest at the Sioni Cathedral. (Reuters) (Orthodox Times) (Georgia Today)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 Cuban crisis
  • 2024–2026 Cuba blackouts
    • Cuba restores its power after the power grid collapsed the previous day. (CBS News)
• Air Canada Express Flight 8646
  • A Bombardier CRJ900LR operating as an Air Canada Express flight from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, collides with a firetruck while landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, United States. Both pilots are killed and 41 others are injured. (ABC News) (The Hindustan Times)
• One person is killed and 10 others are injured, including one critically, when a natural gas explosion collapses two residential buildings in Fatih district, Istanbul, Turkey. (The Canadian Press)

Law and crime

• Thieves steal three paintings, one each by artists Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, from a private museum in Parma, Italy. (NPR)

Politics and elections

• 2026 French municipal elections
  • The second round of municipal elections takes place in France. (France 24)
• 2026 Italian constitutional referendum
  • Italians begin voting on a constitutional amendment that proposes separating the careers of judges and public prosecutors by splitting the High Court of the Judiciary into two bodies, while also establishing a High Disciplinary Court to oversee disciplinary proceedings. (Reuters)
• 2026 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
  • In Germany, the Social Democratic Party declines to second place in Rhineland-Palatinate for the first time since 1991. The Christian Democratic Union party becomes the largest in seats in the Landtag, while Alternative for Germany advances to third place. (Reuters)
• 2026 Slovenian parliamentary election
  • Slovenians vote for 90 seats in the National Assembly. A tight race is forecasted between the incumbent prime minister Robert Golob and his predecessor Janez Janša. (Reuters)
• Protests against the 2026 Iran war
  • Between 200 and 300 National Council of Resistance of Iran-alligned demonstrators of the Iranian opposition gather in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to protest the war and the Iranian government. (NL Times)
• Following the March 15 elections to the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, Kim Jong Un is reelected chairman of the State Affairs Commission (head of State) and Pak Thae Song is reappointed as premier. (KBS)