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March 3, 2023
(
2023-03-03
)
(Friday)
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Disasters and accidents
2023 Plumpang oil depot fire
Seventeen people are killed and fifty others are injured in a fire at a fuel storage station in
Koja, Jakarta
,
Indonesia
.
(Reuters)
Sixteen people are killed when a pipeline
explodes
in
Emohua
,
Rivers State
,
Nigeria
.
(AP)
One person is killed in
Yazoo County, Mississippi
,
United States
, and more than 310,000 people are
left without power
across five
states
due to a system of storms affecting the area.
(WAPT-TV)
(CNN)
Law and crime
A court in
Phnom Penh
,
Cambodia
,
sentences
opposition figure
Kem Sokha
to 27 years in prison on charges of "collusion with foreigners" and
treason
.
(
The Guardian
)
A court in
Minsk
,
Belarus
, sentences
human rights
activist and 2022
Nobel Peace Prize
laureate
Ales Bialiatski
to 10 years in prison on charges of "financing actions violating public order" and
smuggling
.
(AP)
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