Current events of March 1, 2012 (2012-03-01) (Thursday) |
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- Australian floods:
- The stricken liner Costa Allegra arrives at the Seychelles after losing power three days ago due to an engine room fire. (BBC)
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Current events of March 2, 2012 (2012-03-02) (Friday) |
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Current events of March 3, 2012 (2012-03-03) (Saturday) |
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Current events of March 4, 2012 (2012-03-04) (Sunday) |
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- The People's Republic of China announces plans to increase defense spending by 11.2 per cent in 2012. (Reuters via Yahoo News)
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Current events of March 5, 2012 (2012-03-05) (Monday) |
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- The Lorax brings in US$70.7M during its opening weekend, the highest opener of 2012, and fifth highest total for an animated film ever. (CBS News)
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- Russian election aftermath:
- Science and health
- A study finds a correlation between snoring as a toddler and behavior problems later in childhood. (BBC)
- Merck announces that a new drug, ragweed AIT, significantly reduced ragweed allergy symptoms in a Phase III clinical trial. (Fox Business)
- Technology
- The Apple App Store passes 25 billion downloads. (CNET)
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Current events of March 6, 2012 (2012-03-06) (Tuesday) |
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- Chris Cairns, former New Zealand cricket team captain, begins a UK High Court action for libel damages over an accusation on Twitter that he was involved in match-fixing. (BBC)
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Current events of March 7, 2012 (2012-03-07) (Wednesday) |
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- The biggest solar flare in five years that occurred on March 6 nears Earth with the capacity to disrupt power grids, GPS systems and airline flights. (AP via USA Today)
- Physicists from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory report data suggesting the elusive hypothesized Higgs boson ("God particle") may have been detected. (New York Times)
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Current events of March 8, 2012 (2012-03-08) (Thursday) |
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Current events of March 9, 2012 (2012-03-09) (Friday) |
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- Business and finance
- A bankruptcy court appointed examiner, Susheel Kirpalani, issues a detailed report highly critical of the pre-bankruptcy restructuring of Dynegy Inc at the expense of bondholders and for the benefit of Carl Icahn and other shareholders. (Dealbook)
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Current events of March 10, 2012 (2012-03-10) (Saturday) |
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- Arab Spring:
- March 2012 Gaza-Israel clashes: At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza, and 12 Palestinians militants are killed as part of the latest escalation in violence in the region. (Ynetnews) (AP)
- Clashes take place in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab ambush Ethiopian troops. (BBC)
- Air raids in Bayda kill 10 Al-Qaeda militants. (BBC)
- Four people are killed and dozens injured in a grenade attack in Nairobi, Kenya (BBC)
- Arts and culture
- French comics artist Jean Giraud, also known as Mœbius, the creator of Blueberry and a range of influential science-fiction comics, dies at age 73. (Europe1)
- Disasters
- A fire in Peru destroys half a million textbooks and other education materials. (BBC)
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Current events of March 11, 2012 (2012-03-11) (Sunday) |
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- Slovakia's Krásna Hôrka castle is heavily damaged in a fire. (BBC)
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Current events of March 12, 2012 (2012-03-12) (Monday) |
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- The People's Republic of China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade, indicating a slowing economy. (Reuters)
- India's Kingfisher Airlines cancels at least 40 flights due to pilots not turning up for work due to unpaid salaries. (Times of India)
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- Sri Lanka orders media outlets to get prior approval before sending mobile phone alerts about the military or police. (Straits Times)
- Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Dhaka, Bangladesh, demanding the government step down and hold elections. (Al Jazeera)
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Current events of March 13, 2012 (2012-03-13) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of March 14, 2012 (2012-03-14) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of March 15, 2012 (2012-03-15) (Thursday) |
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- Ethiopian forces launch attacks on three militant camps inside Eritrea. (BBC)
- 2011-2012 Syrian uprising:
- Turkish intelligence reports claim that approximately 20,000 Syrian soldiers have deserted from the government forces in less than a month. (Bloomberg)
- Turkey threatens to launch a military incursion into northern Syria to protect fleeing refugees. (The Telegraph)
- The United Nations will send experts on a government-led humanitarian mission. (Al Jazeera)
- Thousands of Syrians take part in a pro-government rally in the capital Damascus. (The New York Times)
- Two French soldiers are killed and one injured in a drive-by shooting in southern France. (CBC)
- 2012 insurgency in northern Mali: 195,000 people flee their homes amid violence in northern Mali between government troops and Tuareg rebels. (IOL)
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Current events of March 16, 2012 (2012-03-16) (Friday) |
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- 2011–2012 Syrian uprising: Protests referred to by activists as "The Friday for International Military Intervention" spread from the northern city of Aleppo to the central regions of Hama and Homs, and southern province of Daraa. (Al Jazeera)
- Afghanistan:
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Current events of March 17, 2012 (2012-03-17) (Saturday) |
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Current events of March 18, 2012 (2012-03-18) (Sunday) |
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Current events of March 19, 2012 (2012-03-19) (Monday) |
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- Syrian uprising:
- At least 30 people are reported killed in fighting between Syrian rebels and government forces in the Damascus neighborhood of al-Mazzeh. (CNN)
- Russian anti-terror troops reportedly enter Syria. (Fox News)
- Confidential documents that surfaced provide a look into the regime's strategy to suppress the anti-government protests. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- Bahraini uprising: Bahraini opposition groups prepare to talk to the ruling monarchy as the government continues to crackdown on protests across the nation. (Al Jazeera)
- Indonesian police kill five men suspected of planning robberies in order to fund terrorism. (BBC)
- A rabbi and his two children, along with the daughter of the school principal, are killed by an attacker at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. (BBC) (The Washington Post) (The Times of Israel)
- Arts and culture
- The Somali National Theatre reopens in Mogadishu more than two decades after it was closed amid civil war. (BBC)
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Current events of March 20, 2012 (2012-03-20) (Tuesday) |
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- India's official poverty rate falls to an all-time record low of 29.8% for the 2009-2010 survey. (BBC)
- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejects two patents held by Prometheus Laboratories, a unit of Nestlé S.A., continuing a trend in recent years toward a narrowing of the grounds of patentability. (Reuters)
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Current events of March 21, 2012 (2012-03-21) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of March 22, 2012 (2012-03-22) (Thursday) |
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- Midi-Pyrénées shootings suspected perpetrator Mohammed Merah dies and three French policemen are injured as a siege ends outside Merah's Toulouse flat. (BBC)
- Mali coup d'état during the insurgency in northern Mali:
- Syrian uprising:
- 12 people are killed in an operation against PKK rebels in southeastern Turkey. (AFP)
- Several thousands of students in Montreal, Canada protest against proposed post-secondary education tuition hikes. (CBC News)
- Art and culture
- The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office says that Whitney Houston's official cause of death was drowning as a result of cocaine use. (CNN)
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Current events of March 23, 2012 (2012-03-23) (Friday) |
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Current events of March 24, 2012 (2012-03-24) (Saturday) |
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- 15 Kurdish militants, all women, are killed by Turkish security forces in south-eastern Bitlis Province. The women were members of the PKK. (BBC)
- 30 people are killed across Syria as Syrian Army tanks storm the town of Saraqeb and are met by resistance from Syrian Army defectors. (Ynet News)
- The African Union deploys a 5,000-strong force in the hope of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony. (BBC)
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Current events of March 25, 2012 (2012-03-25) (Sunday) |
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- Syrian uprising:
- At least 48 people are reported killed across Syria as US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan hold talks about a process for transitioning to a "legitimate government". (CNN)
- Syrian armed forces continue to bombard the city of Homs, and rebels attack a military base near the capital Damascus. (The Bangkok Post) (News24)
- 2012 insurgency in northern Mali: Tuareg insurgents close in on multiple northern towns where they say they will apply Islamic sharia law. (News 24)
- A roadside bomb in southern Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, detonates on a joint Afghan-NATO convoy killing six Afghan police, one U.S. soldier, and one translator. (CNN)
- International relations
- Law and crime
- French prosecutors charge the brother of the gunman Mohammed Merah with complicity in the murders and conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism with regards to the killings of three French paratroopers, a rabbi and three children in Toulouse. (CNN)
- A student is shot dead on the Mississippi State University campus in the United States, prompting school-wide alerts. Three suspects escape in a blue Ford Crown Victoria. (Jackson Clarion Ledger)
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Current events of March 26, 2012 (2012-03-26) (Monday) |
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- Six South African rugby players from the Motherwell Rugby Club are feared dead after being swept out to sea from Port Elizabeth. (BBC)
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Current events of March 27, 2012 (2012-03-27) (Tuesday) |
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- Business and economy
- Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook arrives in China for talks with government officials to clear up problems in the firm's biggest growth market, including the contested iPad trademark and treatment of local labor. (Reuters)
- The United States Department of Justice says that it will not invoke antitrust laws to stop the merger of Humana with Arcadian Management Services, two important health insurance companies. (Reuters)
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Al-Jazeera announces that it has decided not to broadcast video footage of the 2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings that had been filmed by the gunman with a camera strapped to his body. (The Irish Times)
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Current events of March 28, 2012 (2012-03-28) (Wednesday) |
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- Business and economy
- The Government of Fiji seizes a controlling interest in subsidiary Air Pacific from the Australian airline Qantas. Qantas remains in control of its equity in the airline. (Channel News Asia)
- The Mega Millions jackpot in the United States hits a record $500 million dollars, a world record in lottery history. (CNN)
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Current events of March 29, 2012 (2012-03-29) (Thursday) |
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- Arts and culture
- The death is announced of award-winning poet, essayist and public intellectual Adrienne Rich, credited with bringing the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse. (The Guardian)
- Business and economy
- Workers in Spain commence a general strike over government austerity measures. (BBC)
- Queues form at petrol stations across the United Kingdom after government ministers urged motorists to top up their fuel tanks ahead of a possible strike by fuel tanker drivers. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- Smart phone pioneer Research in Motion announces major shake-ups in executive ranks and a strategic review in its earnings report. (Reuters)
- Disasters
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- Politics and elections
- Science
- The UK government says that viaspan, a solution used to preserve some donor organs, could be contaminated with bacteria after routine tests detected Bacillus cereus in the solution used to test the sterility of viaspan. (BBC)
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Current events of March 30, 2012 (2012-03-30) (Friday) |
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Current events of March 31, 2012 (2012-03-31) (Saturday) |
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- Chinese police arrest six people and shut down 16 websites for allegedly spreading rumours that military vehicles were on the streets of Beijing. (BBC)
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Ongoing events |
Political
Economic
Scientific
Medical
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Ongoing conflicts |
- Colombian armed conflict (1964–present)
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Elections |
- 11: El Salvador, Parliament
- 11: Switzerland, Referendum
- 16: Moldova, President (indirect)
- 17: East Timor, President
- 18: Germany, President (indirect)
- 18: Guinea-Bissau, President (1st round)
- 24: Abkhazia, Parliament (2nd round)
- 25: Hong Kong, Chief Executive (indirect)
- 25: Senegal, President (2nd round)
- 25: Slovenia, Family Code referendum
- 25: South Ossetia, President (1st round)
- 29: Gambia, Parliament
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Trials |
Recently concluded
- Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
- France: Jacques Chirac, John Galliano
- Germany: John Demjanjuk
- Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito
- Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
- Netherlands: Geert Wilders
- Peru: Joran van der Sloot
- Russia: Bhagavad Gita
- Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
- United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air
- United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- Canada: Russell Williams, Michael Rafferty
- China: Organized crime in Chongqing
- France: Church of Scientology, Carlos the Jackal
- Germany: Heinrich Boere
- Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
- Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
- Palau: Tommy Remengesau
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr.
- Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
- Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
- Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
- South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
- Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
- Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
- Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
- Turkey: Ergenekon network
- United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout
Upcoming
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