Current events of March 1, 2014 (2014-03-01) (Saturday) |
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- Politics and elections
- 2014 Venezuelan protests: Clashes continue between anti-government protesters and security forces after 41 people are arrested. (Al Jazeera)
- Proposals to change the automatic trade union affiliation with the UK Labour Party are passed at a special party conference vote by 86% to 14%. (BBC)
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Current events of March 2, 2014 (2014-03-02) (Sunday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- Disasters and Accidents
- Alabama's oldest hotel, the Mentone Springs Hotel - built in 1884 and listed on the register of historical places - burns to the ground. (Chattanoogan)
- Politics and elections
- Sport
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Current events of March 3, 2014 (2014-03-03) (Monday) |
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- Business and Economy
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- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
- Scientists announce the discovery of pithovirus, the largest giant virus yet known, from a 30,000 year old sample of frozen tundra. (Nature)
- Sports
- Graeme Smith, the captain of the South Africa cricket team, announces his retirement from international cricket at the end of the current series against Australia. (BBC)
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Current events of March 4, 2014 (2014-03-04) (Tuesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attack
- 2014 Crimean crisis:
- Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a press conference, saying that “force isn’t needed right now” after deploying roughly 16,000 troops to Crimea. (Reuters)
- Swedish foreign secretary Carl Bildt compares the ousted Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych to Norwegian traitor Vidkun Quisling after Yanukovych asked Russia to intervene to restore "law and order" in the country. (Dagens Næringsliv)
- Russia's UN ambassador says to the UN Security Council that Ukraine's fugitive former President Viktor Yanukovych requested Russian soldiers in the strategic Crimea region "to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order," contradicting the president's own comments last week. (Times of India)
- Vladimir Putin orders troops near the Ukraine border to return to their bases with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling the military exercises a "success". (Telegraph)
- Islamist unrest in Egypt (2013–present):
- Business and economy
- A New York gold and gold futures trader files a lawsuit against the international banks involved in the twice-daily teleconferences that set the price of that metal. (Reuters)
- Disasters and accidents
- Law and crime
- A New Jersey judge has ruled that the parents of their 18-year-old daughter do not have to pay for her college education after the teen filed a lawsuit against them seeking support and alleging abuse. (CBS)
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Current events of March 5, 2014 (2014-03-05) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflicts
- 2014 Crimean crisis:
- UN Envoy Robert Serry is ordered to leave Crimea at gunpoint after being threatened by 10–15 armed men. (AP)
- Saying she cannot be part of a network that "whitewashes the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin", Washington-based anchor Liz Wahl resigns on-air from the Russian government-backed news channel RT. (The Guardian) (CNN)
- The Israel Defense Forces captures an Iranian ship carrying long-range artillery rockets to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (CNN)
- Arts and culture
- An 1,800-year-old Egyptian papyrus discovered a century ago, whose inscription is nearly illegible to the naked eye, has been made more readable using infrared sensors, revealing the message to be a soldier's letter to his family. (Live Science)
- Business and economy
- Radio Shack announces the closure of up to 1,100 stores. (USA Today)
- Disasters and accidents
- Law and crime
- The U.S. Supreme Court interprets the whistle-blower provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley to protect the employees of privately owned companies that contract with public companies, in a case involving a group of mutual fund entities. (SCOTUSBlog)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of March 6, 2014 (2014-03-06) (Thursday) |
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- Arts and culture
- Armed conflicts and attacks
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- Politics and elections
- Religion
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Current events of March 7, 2014 (2014-03-07) (Friday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Art and culture
- A statue of Iset, daughter of King Amenhotep III who was the grandfather of Tutankhamun and ruler of Ancient Egypt around 3,350 years ago, has been unearthed by a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists. The statue, which depicts Iset alone without her father, is the first of its kind ever discovered. (GMA News)
- Business and economy
- Health and science
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Sports
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Current events of March 8, 2014 (2014-03-08) (Saturday) |
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- Disasters and accidents
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Current events of March 9, 2014 (2014-03-09) (Sunday) |
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- Religion
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Current events of March 10, 2014 (2014-03-10) (Monday) |
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- Business and economy
- Irish fruit firm Fyffes and U.S. rival Chiquita agree to combine, creating the world's largest banana company in an all-stock deal valued at about $1.07 billion. (BBC)
- Pizza chain Sbarro files for chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in 3 years. (Reuters)
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
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Current events of March 11, 2014 (2014-03-11) (Tuesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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- Business and economy
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Current events of March 12, 2014 (2014-03-12) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- Health
- Fiji's Health Department confirms that eleven people have died and over 10,000 people have been infected in an outbreak of the type three strain of dengue fever. (ABC Online)
- International relations
- Politics and elections
- A new law levying criminal penalties on yeshiva students who dodge military service in the Israeli Defence Forces passes the Knesset with near unanimous support as the entire opposition boycotts the vote; Yoni Chetboun from Jewish Home is the lone no-voter. (Times of Israel)
- Science and technology
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Current events of March 13, 2014 (2014-03-13) (Thursday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2014 Crimean crisis:
- Leaders in the Ukrainian Kherson Oblast threaten to shut off all power and water to Crimea if the referendum goes forward. (FOX)
- Russia masses its military near the Ukrainian border again as new military operations are announced. (BBC)
- At least 100 rockets have been fired from Gaza into southern Israel over the last 3 days, with the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine claiming responsibility. The IDF responded by shelling two alleged PIJ targets. (J Post)
- Islamist unrest in Egypt (2013–present):
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- Law and Crime
- Science and technology
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Current events of March 14, 2014 (2014-03-14) (Friday) |
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- Politics and elections
- International relations
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Current events of March 15, 2014 (2014-03-15) (Saturday) |
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- Disasters and accidents
- Business and economy
- Jack Lew, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, speaks to Wang Yang, vice premier of the People's Republic of China, and expresses U.S. approval of China's new, wider, daily trading band for its renminbi. (Reuters)
- Politics and elections
- Sport
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Current events of March 16, 2014 (2014-03-16) (Sunday) |
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- Politics and elections
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Current events of March 17, 2014 (2014-03-17) (Monday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- Model and fashion designer L'Wren Scott is found dead in her New York apartment. (BBC)
- International relations
- Natural disasters
- A 6.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Chile with officials issuing precautionary tsunami warnings for the nation's coast. (CNN)
- Politics and elections
- Science and technology
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Current events of March 18, 2014 (2014-03-18) (Tuesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- 2014 Crimean crisis - Simferopol Incident
- United States-Syria relations:
- Politics and elections
- Occupy Taiwan Legislature
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Current events of March 19, 2014 (2014-03-19) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflict and attacks
- Business and economy
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Current events of March 20, 2014 (2014-03-20) (Thursday) |
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Current events of March 21, 2014 (2014-03-21) (Friday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- Gunmen attack a police headquarters north of Baghdad and suicide bombers strike across Iraq killing 25 people and injuring dozens. (AP via Washington Post)
- Clashes erupt in Tripoli, Lebanon, between Syrian regime supporters and detractors, leaving 3 dead. (TIME)
- Business and economy
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- Politics and elections
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Current events of March 22, 2014 (2014-03-22) (Saturday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- A member of the governing council of the European Central Bank says that the ECB may yet cut interest rates still further, into negative territory. (Reuters)
- Disasters and accidents
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- Sports
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Current events of March 23, 2014 (2014-03-23) (Sunday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Turkish F-16s shoot down a Syrian military aircraft for purportedly violating Turkish airspace. A Syrian Arab Republic spokesman denies this claim and says the aircraft was in Syrian airspace when it was shot down. (AP) (Al-Arabiya)
- Two gunmen storm a Christian church in Kenya during a Sunday service, killing at least six people and wounding more than a dozen others. (Reuters), (ABC News Australia)
- Disasters
- Health
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Sports
- Barcelona moved to within a point of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga as they twice came from behind thanks to a Lionel Messi hat-trick to edge a thrilling El Clasico 4-3 at the Santiago Bernabeu.
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Current events of March 24, 2014 (2014-03-24) (Monday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Twenty soldiers are killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in eastern Yemen. (BBC)
- Disasters and accidents
- Health
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Islamist unrest in Egypt (2013–present):
- A court in Minya, Egypt, sentences 528 supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi to death for a range of offenses including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property. It is the largest mass death sentence handed down in recent history anywhere in the world. (BBC) (The Independent)
- A Chinese court jails a man for 18 months after he applied for permission to protest on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. (Al Jazeera)
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Current events of March 25, 2014 (2014-03-25) (Tuesday) |
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- Arts and Culture
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- Health
- Law and crime
- Garda phone tapping scandal:
- Martin Callinan resigns as Commissioner of Ireland's Garda Síochána (national police) over his "disgusting" comment about whistleblowers made to a parliamentary committee. Callinan had also been involved in controversy over the recent surveillance/bugging of GSOC. (BBC) (The Journal)
- As Callinan goes, details emerge that the national police have been involved in phone tapping since the 1980s: the Irish Government establishes an inquiry into the matter. (BBC)
- A former Garda is found to have perverted the course of justice on two occasions and admits having cocaine for sale or supply. (RTÉ News)
- A letter titled “Recordings of Telephone Conversations made and retained in Garda Stations” is leaked revealing that Callinan mentioned the telephone tapping to the Department of Justice more than two weeks ago and that the Attorney General knew on 11 November 2013. (The Journal)
- Islamist unrest in Egypt (2013–present):
- Four men are arrested after BASE jumping from the top of the World Trade Center in New York City. (CNN)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of March 26, 2014 (2014-03-26) (Wednesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
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- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics
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Current events of March 27, 2014 (2014-03-27) (Thursday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Business and economy
- Disasters and accidents
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Garda phone tapping scandal:
- As the scandal rages on, it emerges Martin Callinan, who resigned as Garda Commissioner this week, wished to withdraw his use of the word "disgusting" to describe the behaviour of whistleblowers but was prevented from doing so by officials in the Department of Justice. (RTÉ News)
- Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict. The Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro will pave way for autonomous Bangsamoro. (Aljazeera)
- Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest serving death row inmate, is freed from a Japanese prison and granted a retrial after serving 48 years. (Washington Post)
- Politics
- Science and technology
- It is announced publicly that, three months ago, doctors at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, Netherlands, successfully implanted a 3-D printed skull (most of it), from Australian company Anatomics, in a medical first, into an unnamed female patient. (NBC)
- The journal Science publishes that an international team of scientists have for the first time successfully replaced one of the sixteen chromosomes of the genome of a yeast cell with a synthetic DNA chromosome. (BBC)
- A study finds that Cuvier's beaked whale is capable of diving to a depth of 3.2km and staying under water for 137 minutes, both records for a mammal. (News.com.au)
- Sports
Current events of March 28, 2014 (2014-03-28) (Friday) |
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- Business and economy
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- Law and crime
- Buddhist mobs in western Myanmar reportedly target foreign aid groups and workers in reaction to supposedly disrespectful treatment of a Buddhist flag. (CNN)
- A shooting occurs at a courthouse in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, with one shooter dead and a police officer injured. (Associated Press)
- Science
- The US Geological Survey records a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in the Los Angeles area of California. (RTÉ News)
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Current events of March 29, 2014 (2014-03-29) (Saturday) |
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- Arts and Culture
- Attacks and conflicts
- International relations
- 2014 Crimean crisis:
- Sergei Lavrov, the Foreign Minister of Russia, says that Russia has no intention of invading Ukraine. (Reuters)
- The Republic of the Philippines ship was blocked by Chinese Coast Guard ship near the Philippine held territory Ayungin Shoal.
- Law and crime
- The first same-sex marriages take place in the United Kingdom after they were given the legal authority to proceed in England and Wales from midnight UTC. (BBC)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of March 30, 2014 (2014-03-30) (Sunday) |
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- International Relations
- The Republic of the Philippines files a case to an international tribunal in The Hague in its case against China over competing South China Sea claims.
- Law and crime
- Garda phone tapping scandal:
- Court documents seen by RTÉ Radio 1's This Week indicate that Gardaí recorded phone conversations with two main witnesses during the 1996 Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation. (RTÉ News)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of March 31, 2014 (2014-03-31) (Monday) |
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Ongoing events |
Economic
Environmental
Health
- 2014 Guinea ebola outbreak
Political
- More details on ongoing conflicts below
Sports
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Ongoing conflicts |
- Libya
- Post-civil war interfactional fighting
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Elections |
- 5: Afghanistan, President (tentative)
- 6: Costa Rica, President (2nd round)
- 6: Hungary, Parliament
- 7: India, Parliament (1st phase)
- 9: India, Parliament (2nd phase)
- 9: Indonesia, Legislative
- 10: India, Parliament (3rd phase)
- 12: India, Parliament (4th phase)
- 13: Guinea-Bissau, General
- 13: Macedonia, President (1st round)
- 17: Algeria, President
- 17: India, Parliament (5th phase)
- 24: India, Parliament (6th phase)
- 27: Macedonia, President (2nd round) and parliament
- 30: India, Parliament (7th phase)
- 30: Iraq, Parliament
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Trials |
Recently concluded
- Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson
- Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty
- China: Bo Xilai
- Croatia: Ivo Sanader
- Germany: Breno Borges
- Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
- Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY), Germain Katanga (ICC)
- Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
- Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
- South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
- Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
- United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hall, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis
- United States: Noshir Gowadia, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Crystal Mangum
Ongoing
- Brazil: Mensalão scandal
- Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- Canada: Luka Magnotta
- China: Organized crime in Chongqing
- Egypt: Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak
- France: Church of Scientology
- Germany: Christian Wulff, Beate Zschäpe, Uli Hoeness
- Hong Kong: Alfredo Lim
- Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
- Palau: Tommy Remengesau
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., Imelda Marcos, Jovito Palparan
- Russia: Platon Lebedev
- South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
- Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
- Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
- Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
- United Kingdom: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, Eddy Shah, Koo Stark, Max Clifford, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans
- United States: Jodi Arias
Upcoming
- France: Éric Raoult
- Germany: Bernie Ecclestone
- Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
- Jordan: Abu Qatada
- Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Rolf Harris
- United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Dylan Quick, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Bob McDonnell
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