Good morning. It's Tuesday, March 22, and we're covering a deadly air crash in China, another strike on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, and much more. Have feedback? Let us know at [email protected].
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A Boeing 737-800 crashed yesterday in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi, in what may be the country's worst aviation incident in more than two decades. Nine crew members and 123 passengers were aboard when the flight, operated by China Eastern Airlines, went down. Officials have not confirmed the number of victims as of this writing.
According to flight tracking data (see here), the plane went into a rapid descent, falling almost 22,000 feet at speeds above 250 mph before crashing into a mountainside. Footage showed the plane in a near-vertical nosedive moments before impact.
The plane was not the same model as Boeing's 737-MAX aircraft, which suffered two high-profile crashes in 2018 and 2019 due to a faulty auto-stabilization system, leading to a worldwide grounding. The cause of Monday's crash has not been identified.
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At least eight people were killed after a Russian missile struck a 10-story shopping center in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. It marks the latest in a string of attacks across Ukraine on civilian structures or areas where residents have taken shelter. See footage from the blast here.
In the southern city of Mariupol, which has suffered the brunt of shelling, Ukrainian officials rejected a Russian offer to establish safe passage corridors for civilians in exchange for Ukraine laying down arms. Read firsthand accounts from journalists who escaped Mariupol after almost three weeks under siege.
Separately, some Western officials have described the war as rapidly reaching a stalemate. Others have expressed concern that danger to civilians will rise as Russia increasingly uses missiles and long-range artillery after being unable to capture cities outright.
See map updates here, along with photos from the ground.
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The US Recognizes Rohingya Genocide
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The US government yesterday formally declared Myanmar's military has committed genocide against the largely Muslim Rohingya population. The US will also provide $1M in funding for a UN body that is gathering evidence of human rights violations for possible prosecution. This is the eighth time since the Holocaust in which the US has concluded the occurrence of genocide.
More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled from Buddhist-majority Myanmar to Bangladesh since August 2017, after the Myanmar military launched a widespread purge of the Muslim Rohingya population in the western part of the country. In February 2021, the military ousted the democratically elected government in a coup. Since then, thousands of civilians have been killed, jailed, or suffered violent repression from mass rape to arson.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, faces genocide accusations from the International Court of Justice in The Hague and has been previously hit with sanctions from the US.
See more on the crisis here.
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BBC Future | Mark Piesing. During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union explored using liquid hydrogen to fuel aircraft—but they ran into problems. Now, a new generation of engineers is pursuing hydrogen-powered flight. (Read)
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NYT | Anemona Hartocollis. A math professor at Columbia University investigates the accuracy behind his school's No. 2 ranking in the US News and World Report. (Read, paywall)
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