• CHILE
  Villarrica Volcano, 18 km south of Pucón in southern Chile, erupts on March 3. Local authorities issued a red alert and urged the immediate evacuation of 3,385 people in the area (XINHUA)
• IRAQ
  Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (center) arrives in the city of Samarra by military helicopter on March 1. Abadi announced the launch of a major offensive in and around Tikrit to retake one of the Islamic State group’s main strongholds (XINHUA/AFP)
• SOUTH KOREA
  President Park Geun Hye (center) cheers during a ceremony celebrating the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul on March 1 (XINHUA/AFP)
• LIBYA
  With mediation of the UN special envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon (left), a political dialogue is resumed between the Libyan General National Congress and the parallel parliament backed by the Fajr Libya militia on March 2 (XINHUA/AFP)
• RUSSIA
  During a march in central Moscow on March 1, opposition supporters hold a portrait of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was shot and killed on February 27 in Moscow (XINHUA/AFP)
• THE UNITED STATES
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on March 3, calling for a rejection of a nuclear deal with Iran, which he insisted would allow the country to develop nuclear weapons (XINHUA)