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South America:
- The closing ceremony of the 2010 South American Games, with Colombia winning the most gold medals and Brazil just a little over 10 medals behind.
Middle East:
- A Palestinian teenager dies at a protest rally in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources there. (BBC)
Somali pirates hijack 8 Indian vessels abducting 120 sailors, biggest abduction count till date, off the coast of Kismayo. Times of India
At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN the first collisions took place between two 3.5 TeV beams setting a world record for the highest energy man-made particle collisions.
10 children, youths and young adults between the ages of 8 and 21 were gunned down, presumably by drug traffickers, in the northern Mexican state of Durango. (CNN)
Chinese police are hunting a man suspected of killing five members of a migrant family, including an 8-year-old girl, in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (People Dialy)

March 30, 2010 Wikinews articles

29 March 2010 (Monday)

Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, announces it will boycott the upcoming general elections in Burma. (BBC) (AP)
Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at Moscow Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury, killing at least 36 with the death toll expected to rise. (RIA) (AP) (Russia Today) (RIAN)
The stern of the South Korean warship which exploded on Friday with 46 crewmen still missing is located and the military is expected to attempt a dive. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Yonhap)
Maule, Chile, is rattled by a 6.1 magnitude aftershock on Monday 08.43 a.m. AEDT (5:43 p.m. Sunday local time). (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Xinhua)
A Rio Tinto executive is jailed for 10 years in China. (RTÉ)
FARC releases into the jungle a soldier it kidnapped just under a year ago. (BBC)
Ireland's rail line between Galway and Limerick reopens for the first time in 34 years. (RTÉ)
More than 300 southern right whales, mostly young calves, have been discovered dead off Argentina's Patagonian coast in the last five years. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
In architecture, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, cofounders of the firm SANAA, win the 2010 Pritzker Prize. (BBC News)
Nine members of the Hutaree militia are arrested in the United States on allegations of a plot to kill policemen then to attack the funerals, in preparation for a war against all levels of American government. (CNN)
A patent on two human genes is struck down by a judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. (The New York Times) (Newsweek)

March 29, 2010 Wikinews articles

Russia removes two timezones

and the past, again.. March 30th 2000

30 March 2000 (Thursday)

America's Cup 2000 retained by Team New Zealand near Auckland. Prada Challenge 2000 lost 0-5 in a "best-of-9".

So what to expect in April? Its coming fast, and last decade..

Events

April 1 - Japanese prime minister Obuchi Keizo suffers a stroke and falls into a coma.
April 3 - United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
April 5 - Mori Yoshiro replaces Obuchi as prime minister of Japan.
April 7 - Attack submarine ex-Trepang completes being recycled.
April 16 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, Raja of Perlis dies after a reign of 55 years. He was the longest reigning monarch in the world since the death of Hirohito, Emperor of Japan.
April 17 - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis.
April 22 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC ending one of the most publicized custody battles in US history.
April 25 - The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unions for same-sex couples.

Monday, March 29, 2010

March 28 2010

29 March 2010 (Monday)

Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, announces it will not take part in the upcoming general elections in Burma. (BBC) (AP)
Two terrorist attacks at Moscow Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury kill at least 36 with the death toll expected to rise. (RIA) (AP) (Russia Today) (RIAN)
The stern of the South Korean warship which exploded on Friday with 46 crewmen still missing is located and the military is expected to attempt a dive. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Yonhap)
Maule, Chile, is rattled by a 6.1 magnitude aftershock on Monday 08.43 a.m. AEDT (5:43 p.m. Sunday local time). (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Xinhua)
A Rio Tinto executive is jailed for 10 years in China. (RTÉ)
FARC releases into the jungle a soldier it kidnapped just under a year ago. (BBC)
Ireland's rail line between Galway and Limerick reopens for the first time in 34 years. (RTÉ)
More than 300 southern right whales, mostly young calves, are discovered dead off Argentina's Patagonian coast in the last five years. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
In architecture, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, cofounders of the firm SANAA, win the 2010 Pritzker Prize. (BBC News)

March 29, 2010 Wikinews articles

Russia removes two timezones

28 March 2010 (Sunday)

The BBC reports it has found evidence of a massacre which occurred in Democratic Republic of Congo last December in which at least 321 people, including children, were killed. Human Rights Watch calls it "one of the worst massacres carried out by the LRA". (BBC)
Catholic Church child sexual abuse scandal:
- At a Palm Sunday mass in Saint Peter's Square, Rome, Pope Benedict XVI tells tens of thousands of people about the recent "petty gossip" he has been subjected to, thought to mean the child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church, though he fails to directly mention the scandal. (BBC) (The Observer) (National Post)
- Controversial Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland Cardinal Seán Brady confirms the departure of one of his parish priests due to new information regarding "child safeguarding issues". (RTÉ) (BBC) (Reuters) (The Irish Times)
Middle East:
- Israel announces its plan to seal off the West Bank from midnight tonight until midnight on 6 April during its traditional Passover biblical religious holiday. (Ha'aretz)
- Chief Justice of Palestine Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Al-Tamimi appeals for Palestinian citizens to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem from harm threatened by extremist Jewish groups who want to destroy it as part of a "Hebrew Passover offering" slaughter. (Saba News Agency)
- The 22nd Arab League (AL) Summit ends with Arab leaders agreeing that all attempts by Israel to change occupied Jerusalem and its "demographic, humanitarian and historic situation" are invalid and cannot be accepted, while appealing to the international community, including the United Nations Security Council, European Union and UNESCO, to save East Jerusalem and preserve the threatened Al-Aqsa Mosque. (Xinhua)
- Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu states that his "policy of retaliation is forceful and decisive" and alleges that "Hamas and the other terror organizations need to know that they are the ones that are responsible for their own actions". (Ha'aretz) (Reuters Africa)
- Netanyahu denies labelling Barack Obama as Israel's "greatest disaster [...] a strategic disaster" during their ongoing dispute and distances himself from the "sick and insane matter [...] a catastrophic situation [...] a hostile administration like never before" remarks. (The New York Times) (Ynetnews)
- President of Israel Shimon Peres says Netanyahu's administration is going too far with its building plans in East Jerusalem. (Ha'aretz)
U.S. President Barack Obama, in his first visit to Afghanistan as commander in chief, meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and speaks to American troops deployed there. (Washington Post)
One male is killed and two other people are injured in the Patissia area of the Greek capital Athens after a bomb explodes outside a public building. It is the first fatal bombing in Greece for many years. (Reuters) (RTÉ) (BBC) (Sky News) (The Daily Telegraph) (Al Jazeera)
At least 152 coal miners are trapped after a pit floods in Shanxi, while 109 others escape. (BBC) (China Daily)
6 die and 33 are injured in five co-ordinated bombings targeting militia leader Sheikh Turki Hamad Mikhlif in Qaim, Iraq. (BBC) (Xinhua) (RTÉ) (Washington Post) (France24) (The New York Times)
2 journalists are shot dead, in the northeastern region of Olancho in Honduras. (Xinhua) (People) (The Associated Press)
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva meets with leaders of the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship on live television to help bring about an end to the political crisis in the country. (CNN) (Thai News Agency) (The Daily Telegraph)
A Chinese dissident lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for over a year, says he is "free" and wanting to spend time away from media attention. (Al Jazeera) (AP) (BBC)
Italians test Silvio Berlusconi in regional elections. (BBC)
First step in Russian time zone reform comes into force. The number of time zones drops from 11 to 9, eliminating Samara Time and Kamchatka Time. (RT) (The Moscow Times) (Reuters) (AP)
America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducts raids in southeastern Michigan in an investigation involving members of Hutaree, a Christian-oriented militia group. (AnnArbor.com) (WDIV) (AP)
24 is cancelled. (BBC)

March 28, 2010 Wikinews articles

27 March 2010 (Saturday)

Earth Hour
- Approximately 4,000 cities around the world dimmed their building lights to commemorate Earth Hour. (MSNBC)
- Irish Green Party leader John Gormley is criticised for delivering a televised speech during his party's national convention which coincides with Earth Hour. (Irish Independent) (RTÉ) (Irish Examiner)

Middle East:
- Israeli tanks and armoured bulldozers leave Gaza after an incursion near Khan Younis: two Gazans are killed and 12 wounded, including at least one civilian. (Jerusalem Post)
- Jerusalem is discussed at the two-day annual Arab summit in Sirt, with PNA officials calling for "a large Arab political support to the Palestinian people on all levels in order to be able to face the right-wing Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu which insists to elude from the peace process and keeps its aggressive actions against our people". (Xinhua)
More than 100 people are injured and one death is reported as the Bugandan king visits royal tombs which were recently destroyed by fire. (Arab News)
Two bombs killed 42 people and wounded 65 others in Iraq's mainly Sunni Diyala province, prior to the release of full preliminary results from the March 7 parliamentary election. (China Daily)
Three deaf men who allege they were sodomised and abused by priests as children appear on RAI Television to confront the diocese of Verona. (Arab News)
The European Union and Libya lift visa bans on each other. (BBC)
India test fires two short range missiles, the Dhanush and Prithvi II. (The Hindu) (Xinhua) (Straits Times)
President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is reported by Al Gomhuria to be returning home following his recent gallbladder surgery in Heidelberg. (Al Jazeera)
The South Korean government calls an emergency security meeting to investigate yesterday's ship sinking near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea as a rescue operation continues to retrieve 46 missing sailors. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Yonhap)
Thousands of soldiers participate in Burma's annual Armed Forces Day parade in Naypyidaw and are inspected by General Than Shwe who delivers a rare public address. (BBC) (IOL) (Bangkok Post)
Thai troops retreat after thousands of "red shirt" protesters demand fresh elections. (Bangkok Post) (Reuters)
In horse racing, Gloria de Campeao wins the Dubai World Cup. (BBC)

March 27, 2010 Wikinews articles

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Well its been almost a week since I did this, and only now am I online while sitting in the mall. Its so very easy to let plans get away from you. I can fortunetly play catchup, since this is all in the past by the time you are reading this. Here is what has happened this week.
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27 March 2010 (Saturday)

Israeli tanks leave Gaza after incursion: 2 Gazans killed and 12 wounded, including at least one civilian; armoured bulldozers near Khan Younis. (Jerusalem Post)
More than 100 people are injured and one death is reported as the Bugandan king visits royal tombs which were recently destroyed by fire. (Arab News)
Two bombs killed 42 people and wounded 65 others in Iraq's mainly Sunni Diyala province, prior to the release of full preliminary results from the March 7 parliamentary election. (China Daily)
Three deaf men who allege they were sodomised and abused by priests as children appear on RAI Television to confront the diocese of Verona. (Arab News)
India test fires two short range missiles, the Dhanush and Prithvi II. (The Hindu) (Xinhua) (Straits Times)
President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is reported by Al Gomhuria to be returning home following his recent gallbladder surgery in Heidelberg. (Al Jazeera)
The South Korean government calls an emergency security meeting to investigate yesterday's ship sinking near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea as a rescue operation continues to retrieve 46 missing sailors. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Yonhap)
Thousands of soldiers participate in Burma's annual Armed Forces Day parade in Naypyidaw and are inspected by General Than Shwe who delivers a rare public address. (BBC) (IOL) (Bangkok Post)
Thai troops retreat after thousands of "red shirt" protesters demand fresh elections. (Bangkok Post) (Reuters)

March 27, 2010 Wikinews articles

26 March 2010 (Friday)

China surpassed the United States last year as the country with the most clean energy investment. China's clean energy investments were $34.6 billion, compared with U.S.A.'s $18.6 billion last year. The US still leads the world in installed renewable energy, with 52.2 gigawatts of wind energy, small hydroelectric, biomass and waste generating capacity, per a report by the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts, but has dropped below ten other countries, including Canada and Mexico in investments as a share of the national economy.(The China Post) (Business Times) (China Daily) (L.A. Times)
An explosion triggered a fire in a chemical plant in an east China city, leaving 3 dead, one seriously injured. The explosion occurred at 2:40 p.m. in Haiyi Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd. in Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong Province. (Sina)
Middle East:
- Israel refuses renewed calls to stop building homes in East Jerusalem, with a representative of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stating in writing: "Israeli construction policy in Jerusalem has remained the same for 42 years and isn’t changing". (Arab News)
- Iran calls on Muslims around the world to act in protest of Israel's construction plans in East Jerusalem. (Press TV) (Ynetnews) (The Star) (The Jerusalem Post)
- Israeli incursion into Gaza: two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinian militants are killed. (Yahoo! News) (The Jerusalem Post)
US President Obama and Russian President Medvedev finalize a new arms control treaty to further reduce the nuclear arsenals of each country still remaining since the Cold War. (The Jerusalem Post) (The New York Times) (The Hindu)
A prominent Indonesian cleric says Islamic law should take priority over laws passed by Parliament. (The Jakarta Post)
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is disappointed with Burma's military leaders for their lack of democratic progress in the run up to general elections in the country. (Al Jazeera) (Sydney Morning Herald) (Reuters)
Chinese police arrests a suspect for poisoning frozen dumplings for revenge. Those dumplings were exported to Japan and sickened 10 people in 2008. (Asahi Shimbun) (Xinhua)
11 people are killed in a highway accident on Interstate 65 in the U.S. state of Kentucky, near Munfordville. The wreck site is roughly 40 miles northwest of the city of Bowling Green, near Mammoth Cave National Park. (CNN) (MSNBC)
A challenge to Ireland's Romeo and Juliet law is rejected by the High Court. (RTÉ)
A South Korean Navy ship carrying more than 100 personnel sinks near the Northern Limit Line in waters off the country's west coast near North Korea, a report says. (Yonhap) (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Times of India)
ITV drops police television series The Bill after 27 years. (The Guardian) (RTÉ)
The Times and The Sunday Times announce they are to charge £1 per day and £2 per week for online access from June 2010 and split into two websites from Times Online. (The Guardian) (Wall Street Journal) (RTÉ) (The New York Times)
Russia outlaws Mein Kampf due to its "extremist" content. (RIA Novosti) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide) (RTÉ) (The Hindu) (The New York Times)

March 26, 2010 Wikinews articles

25 March 2010 (Thursday)

Rustam Minnikhanov is sworn in as the second president of Tatarstan. (Radio Free Europe)
Pakistan's jet fighters pounds militants' hideouts in northwest Pakistan's Mamozai area, killing at least 48 people and injuring 32 others. (Xinhua)
A Gazan fisherman is critically wounded when the Israeli navy targets his fishing boat in an early morning attack. (The Muslim News)
The United States weakens proposed sanctions against Iran in a bid to win broader support on the UN Security Council as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismisses the impact of any new measures to stop Iran’s nuclear program. (The Christian Science Monitor)
Child sex abuse in the Catholic Church:
- Pope Benedict XVI is accused of failing to act in a case of the sexual abuse of 200 deaf boys. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera) (The Hindu)
- Bishop of Waterford and Lismore William Lee apologises for his two-year delay in failing to alert authorities to child sexual abuse allegations in his parish in the mid-1990s, describing as "seriously inadequate" his handling of the matter. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (BBC) (CNN)
- An editorial from the Vatican says the news media is acting "with the clear and ignoble intent of trying to strike Benedict and his closest collaborators at any cost". (L'Osservatore Romano) (The New York Times) (BBC News)
Hamas decides to execute Palestinians whom they have found guilty of “collaboration” with Israel despite protests by human rights and legal organizations, while criticizing those who have been firing rockets at Israel in the past few days. (The Jerusalem Post)
500 homes near the airport in Mogadishu are demolished by Somali troops. (BBC)
President of the United States Barack Obama requests that Cuba's leaders release all political prisoners, describing human rights there as "deeply disturbing". (Al Jazeera)
3 die in a medical helicopter crash in Tennessee, United States, with the helicopter that crashed being operated by Hospital Wing. (CNN)
U.S. defense secretary Robert Gates announces new rules that make it more difficult to expel gay service members. (The New York Times)
Munster Rugby fans in Ireland win a court case against the state allowing pubs to open for business on Good Friday, a day that normally sees all pubs in the country shut for religious reasons. (RTÉ) (BBC) (The Irish Times)
Independent News & Media sells its British titles to Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev for £1. (Reuters) (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (The Guardian)
Dennis Hopper:
- The lawyer for Dennis Hopper admits for the first time that the actor is terminally ill and unable to undergo chemotherapy treatment for his prostate cancer. (BBC) (Montreal Gazette) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Hopper receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (USA Today)

March 25, 2010 Wikinews articles

24 March 2010 (Wednesday)

United Kingdom Chancellor Alistair Darling presents his 2010 United Kingdom Budget to the House of Commons.^{[citation needed]}
Tiny South Talpatti Island off the coast of Bengal disappears, washed away thirty years after the mud flat island was created by delta currents, ending the Indian and Bangladeshi dispute over the territory. The Calcutta Institute raised fears over more islands, such as the Maldives, going under in the future. (BBC) (The Times of India) (Los Angeles Times) (Miami Herald)
The European Union calls for Iran to halt internet censorship and jamming of radio broadcasts. (Voice of America) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), says that monitoring Sudan's election next month would be like monitoring a vote in Hitler's Germany. (The Washington Post)
Middle East:
- More than 100 people with possible links to Al-Qaeda are arrested in Saudi Arabia for allegedly planning attacks on oil and security installations in the country. (Al Jazeera) (The Times)
- The United States requests clarifications on new Jewish housing in East Jerusalem after the Israeli Prime Minister meets the US President at the White House in Washington, D.C. (The Jerusalem Post) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Palestinians have condemned the latest plans for more Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, announced as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ended a US visit. (BBC)
Six people die and more than 30 people are injured after a car bomb explodes in the centre of the Colombian Pacific port city of Buenaventura. (BBC) (Toronto Sun) (CNN) (ABC News) (TVNZ) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
Portugal's credit rating is downgraded from AA to AA- by the Fitch Group due to fears over its high debt levels. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (CNN)
A Sharia court in Kaduna bans the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria from debating punishment amputations via Twitter. (BBC) (The Washington Post) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
An out-of-control train derailment in Norway kills three people and seriously injures several others. (BBC) (CNN) (Al Jazeera)
Scientists identify the Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human through DNA analysis from a finger found in a cave in Siberia, Russia. (Nature) (BBC) (The New York Times)
Go Daddy, the largest domain name registration company in the world, announces it will cease registering websites in China after the Chinese government required customers to provide photographs and other identifying information before registering. (CNET) (Washington Post) (AP)
Indonesia bans a conference of Asian gay activists, saying it could prompt violent protests by conservative Muslim groups. (The New York Times) (Jakarta Post) (AsiaOne)
Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Bishop of Cloyne John Magee. (RTÉ) (The Daily Telegraph) (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
American mathematician John Tate wins the Abel Prize for advancing "one of the most elaborate and sophisticated branches of modern mathematics" (The Hindu) (AP)
A landslide kills at least three, injures 11 in Indonesia's West Sumatra in Saok Laweh village. (The Hindu)
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia goes offline, with users encountering navigation error messages. (CNN) (The Daily Telegraph) (PC Magazine)
Students at the University of Ottawa protest and shut down right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's second stop on her trans-Canada tour. (CBC)
Craig David is named as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. (UN)

March 24, 2010 Wikinews articles

23 March 2010 (Tuesday)