2021 Israeli legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Israel on 23 March 2021 to elect the 120 members of the 24th Knesset. It was the fourth election in two years. The 24th Knesset was sworn in on 6 April 2021.
Thirteen parties/alliances got seats.
Winner was HaLikud of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They got 30 seats. Second was Yesh Atid of Yair Lapid. They got 17 seats.
Netanyahu tried unsuccessfully to form a sixth government. Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett (HaYamin HeHadash) did succeed and formed the Bennett-Lapid Government.
2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach
A global wave of cyberattacks and data breaches began in January 2021 after four zero-day exploits were discovered in Microsoft Exchange Servers, giving attackers full access to user emails and passwords on affected servers.
, it was estimated that 250,000 servers fell victim to the attacks, including servers belonging to around 30,000 organisations in the United States, 7,000 servers in the United Kingdom, as well as the European Banking Authority, the Norwegian Parliament, and Chile's Commission for the Financial Market (CMF).
Afaka kidnapping
The Kaduna kidnapping took place on 11 March 2021, when at least 30 students were kidnapped in Kaduna State, Nigeria, during an attack by gunmen on the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization.
This is Nigeria's third kidnapping from an academic institution in 2021, and the fourth since December 2020, coming two weeks after the Zamfara kidnapping which resulted in the abduction of 279 female students.
MonsterVerse
The "MonsterVerse" is a trilogy of series of action-adventure monster movie franchise featuring Godzilla and King Kong, produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures. most films appeared in "Godzilla" (2014), "Godzilla 2" (2019), "Kong Skull Island" (2017), " Godzilla vs. Kong" (2021).
other note was the creatures including Skullcrawler vocalizations by Frank Welker, JD Hall as Mechagodzilla mo-cap and vocalizations.
Istanbul Convention
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe against violence against women and domestic violence which was opened for signature on 11 May 2011, in Istanbul, Turkey.
As of March 2019, it has been signed by 45 countries and the European Union. On 12 March 2012, Turkey became the first country to ratify the convention, followed by 33 other countries from 2013 to 2019. The Convention came into force on 1 August 2014.
On 20 March 2021, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced Turkey's withdrawal from the treaty with a presidential decree.
2021 Boulder shooting
On March 22, 2021, a mass shooting happened at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Ten people were killed, including a local on-duty police officer.
The suspected shooter, 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa, was arrested by police after they shot him in the right leg. He was hospitalized before being moved to the county jail.
March 2021 Rohingya refugee-camp fire
On 22 March 2021, a fire started during late afternoon in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. It destroyed a large part of the camp, killed over a dozen people, and left nearly a thousand injured or missing.
The fire forced roughly 50,000 Rohingya refugees out of their camps and destroyed many buildings, including schools and food storage centres. First responders to the crisis were refugees from the camp itself.
2021 Eastern Australian floods
Extreme rainfall on the east coast of Australia beginning on 18 March 2021 led to massive flooding in New South Wales, affecting regions from the North Coast to the Sydney metropolitan area in the south. Suburbs of Sydney experienced the worst flooding in 60 years.
The Australian government declared many parts of the east coast a natural disaster zone after the flooding rains forced 18,000 people to evacuate, in addition to over 1,000 flood rescues.
The floods happened less than 18 months after Australia was affected by the Black Summer bushfires.
2019-20 C2 Cup
The 2019–20 C2 Cup was the 49th season of World's secondary club football tournament.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was suspended in mid-March 2020 and resumed in August. However, season was abandoned on 30 July 2020.
Thenpennai River
Thenpennai River is a river in Tamil Nadu in India. In the Hindu religion, this river is holy.
This river starts in Karnataka state in the Nanthidurga mountains. This river divides into two rivers at Thirukovilur. One river is called Kedilam and other is Thenpennai.
Katsyaryna Andreeva
Katsyaryna Andreeva (Belarusian: Кацярына Андрэева; Russian: Катерина Андреева; real name: Katsyaryna Andreevna Bahvalava; Belarusian: Кацярына Андрэеўна Бахвалава) (born on November 2, 1993, in Minsk, Belarus) is a journalist from Belarus. She worked for the television channel Belsat TV. She showed the event at the place where Raman Bandarenka was beaten to death in 2020. She was arrested there on November 15, 2020, in Minsk.
She was born in Minsk. Her family had journalists before. She learned for about two and a half years in Minsk State Linguistic University, then she moved to Spain. She taught English there for two years. Then she came back home, got to work for the newspaper Nasha Niva as a journalist. In 2017, she moved to the TV channel Belsat.
Katsyaryna Andreeva with Igar Ilyash wrote the book «Belarusian Donbas» in 2020. The book let people know how the Belarusian side takes part in the War in Donbas for the separatists side. The Belarusian government considered the book to be very bad. In 2021, via court decision, it made the book illegal in Belarus for extremism.
Katsyaryna was first arrested in 2017 in Orsha. On September 12, 2020, she was arrested by special police for a live broadcast of a women's protest in Minsk and was locked up for three days.
Together with journalist Darya Chultsova, she became a person in a criminal case on organizing actions that attack public order. Both showed the event of a cruel attack of the police at the place where Raman Bandarenka was beaten to death and the people stood to support the dead one live. That took place at the "Square of Changes" ("Ploscha Peramen") in Minsk on November 15, 2020.
She was not freed after the arrest there. Katsyaryna was moved to a prison in Zhodzina, where she was held until her court trial. On November 24, 2020, ten organizations (the Viasna Human Rights Centre, the Belarusian Association of Journalists, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and others) made a joint statement. It said that she is a political prisoner.
At a Minsk court meeting led by the judge Natalia Buguk on February 18, 2021, Andreeva und Chultsova were sentenced to serve two years in prison for pushing 2020 Belarusian protests.
On April 23, 2021, Minsk City Court said no to a request to call off or change the sentence.
On February 8, 2021, the US Embassy in Belarus made a statement. It asked to make Chultsova and Andreeva free.
On February 4, 2021, support for the political prisoner was undertaken by Delara Burkhardt, a Member of the European Parliament.
Following the sentencing, on February 18, 2021, President of Poland Andrzej Duda made a public call to make Chultsova and Andreeva free.
Together with Darya Chultsova and Katsyaryna Barysevich, on December 10, 2020, she was named Journalist of the Year (2020).
Together with Darya Chultsova on March 10, 2021, she got the Award named after Dariusz Fikus by the Press Club Polska (Polish organization of journalists).
Together with Darya Chultsova and Katsyaryna Barysevich, on April 9, 2021, she got the Ales Lipay (the person who made BelaPAN) Prize "Honor of Journalism."
Together with Darya Chultsova on June 7, 2021, she got the Axel-Springer-Preis (a German award for young journalists).