EVENTS DESCRIBED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Storm Prediction Center issues first high risk convective outlook in 2 years for Mississippi River Valley as storm surges and tornado outbreaks cause extensive to Little Rock, Arkansas
• Tornado hits city of Belvidere, Illinois, collapsing theatre building; 1 dead and 28 others injured
• Concrete platform over stepwell at Hindu Temple in Indore, India, collapses, killing 35 people, injuring 18, and trapping several others
• Pirates in Gulf of Guinea hijack Danish-owned Liberian-flagged oil tanker; ship is later found abandoned with some of its crew kidnapped
• Italy announces blocking of OpenAI's ChatGPT in the country over privacy and security concerns over data collection and use of the site by minors

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This is the seventy-first episode, detailing noteworthy world events that happened during March 31st, 2023.

Sources consulted during production:

https://www.thv11.com/article/weather/little-rock-catastrophic-tornado/91-f2b6c0d9-b70c-433f-bbe1-9c4570038077 (Little Rock tornado outbreak)

https://www.wifr.com/2023/04/01/mass-casualty-event-reported-belvideres-apollo-theatre/ (Belvidere, Illinois tornado)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65134372 (Indore temple stepwell collapse)

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2023/03/31/Some-crew-members-missing-after-Gulf-of-Guinea-pirate-attack (Gulf of Guinea pirate kidnapping)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/italy-data-protection-agency-opens-chatgpt-probe-privacy-concerns-2023-03-31/ (Italy blocks ChatGPT)

https://www.barrons.com/news/three-killed-including-foreign-tourist-in-norway-avalanches-police-1a7b02cf (Norway avalanches)

https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-train-derail-bern-transportation-injuries-e7cd77633dd19d1eb49096d4530cbc85 (Switzerland storms and train derailments)

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