March 5 - 7 2010

8 March 2010 (2010-03-08) (Monday) edit history watch

A car bomb attack is reported near a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building in Lahore, Pakistan. (BBC) Members of Parliament from FATA,Pakistan refuse a body scan in USA, and return home.Dawn

March 8, 2010 Wikinews articles

Bronx, New York church destroyed in suspicious blaze Clashes in Nigeria kill hundreds, troops on alert Eight teens shot outside Indiana skating rink

Current events of 7 March 2010 (2010-03-07) (Sunday) edit history watch

Hundreds of Christian villagers are hacked to death with machetes by Muslim herders in a continuing conflict in Dogo-Nahawa, Nigeria. (Reuters) (BBC) (The Washington Post) Tens of thousands demonstrate against an abortion bill in several Spanish cities. (BBC) (The Mercury) Australian weather report: Melbourne experiences flooding after a once-in-a-century thunderstorm of marble-sized hailstones which tears the roof from a railway station and leads to the postponement of sports fixtures. A state of emergency is declared in Queensland. Fish fall from the sky in Lajamanu. (Sky News) (The Times) Voters in Iraq take part in parliamentary elections and a referendum on the Status of Forces Agreement. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) Voters in Switzerland take part in a referendum on whether to provide lawyers for non-human animals and other issues. (Swissinfo) (Deutsche Welle) Five Pakistani police officials are suspended due to their negligence in the Sahil Saeed case. (Sky News) Three people are killed falling from high-rise flats in Glasgow. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Sky News) (The Times)

March 7, 2010 Wikinews articles

Paleontologists reaffirm the cause of dino extinction Insurgents kill several people in Baghdad as Iraq's parliamentary elections start Tiger kills handler in Shanghai zoo 10 billionth update placed on social networking website Twitter Iraqi police: Najaf bombing kills three Two candidates in Togo elections claim victory; votes counted Polio vaccination campaign targets 85 million African children Gardner pleads not guilty to Chelsea King murder Six people die in bus crash near Phoenix, Arizona

Current events of 6 March 2010 (2010-03-06) (Saturday) edit history watch

Micheál Martin briefs his fellow EU Foreign Ministers on his visit to Gaza at a meeting in Córdoba, Spain. (RTÉ) Washington, D.C. is to become the first American city to hand out free female condoms in the battle against HIV/AIDS. (The Washington Post) (BBC) (Boston Globe) There are riots in Brussels. (Sky News) Nigeria's and Al-Merreikh's Endurance Idahor dies during a football match in Sudan with the referee ending the match as a result. (BBC) (The Times of India) (The New York Times) Ingushetian President Yunus-bek Yevkurov confirms the death of Alexander Tikhomirov/Said Buryatsky. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Star) Taliban commander Faqir Mohammed is reportedly killed in a drone strike in Pakistan. (BBC) Iraqi parliamentary election, 2010: Iraqis living in Iran vote. (Al Jazeera) A car bomb which explodes in Najaf results in the deaths of at least three people one day before elections. (Al Jazeera) The Chilean Navy removes Commander Mariano Rojas, head of the oceanography service, from his post following his failure to warn of the tsunami which followed the 2010 Chile earthquake. (The Daily Telegraph) (The New Zealand Herald) (RTÉ) (The Times) Hosni Mubarak: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak temporarily hands over power, due to surgery on his gallbladder. (AFP) (Washington Post) Gallbladder surgery on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is said to have been successful at Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany. (Al Jazeera) At least 11 Philippine soldiers are killed in an ambush by communist rebels in Mansalay, Mindoro. (Philippine Inquirer) (Al Jazeera) Iceland holds a referendum about compensating the United Kingdom and the Netherlands after the collapse of the Icesave bank, with a 95% "no" vote recorded. (BBC)(CNN) (IceNews) US Defense Secretary Robert Gates reviews allegations of misconduct in Afghanistan by the private military company formerly known as Blackwater, Xe Services LLC. (BBC)

March 6, 2010 Wikinews articles

Eleven soldiers killed in clash with rebels in the Philippines Somali pirates seize tanker off coast of Madagascar Imam pleads guilty in New York subway bomb plot Suicide bomber kills twelve in northwest Pakistan Gordon Brown defends Iraq decision

Current events of 5 March 2010 (2010-03-05) (Friday) edit history watch

Baidu shares have risen 34% since rival Google said on Jan 12 it may shut down its business in China. Baidu has risen 34 percent and Google has lost 8.5 percent. (China Dialy) Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin, writing in the International Herald Tribune, says Israel's blockade of Gaza is "inhumane and unacceptable" and calls on the European Union and other countries to request that it be ended following his visit there last week. (Ha'aretz) (RTÉ) A magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurs in the ocean off Sumatra with the possibility of a tsunami. (CNN) HIH Princess Toshi of Japan is excused from school due to excessive bullying from classmates. (BBC) (Japan Today) (Miami Herald) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times) Joe Glenton, a British soldier who went AWOL in 2007 and became a figurehead of the anti-war movement, is demoted and sent to jail in Colchester. (BBC) (CNN) (The Guardian) (The Daily Telegraph) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown gives evidence to the Iraq Inquiry. (The Guardian) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times) Fiji imprisons eight men for an assassination attempt on Commodore Frank Bainimarama in 2007. (BBC) (The Washington Post) (Bangkok Post) (The Sydney Morning Herald) 15 Israeli police are "lightly hurt" and several dozen Palestinians are injured and three are arrested after Friday prayers on the Temple Mount and a recent Israeli decision to include two West Bank shrines on a list of national heritage sites.(Ha'aretz) At least 16 people are wounded in two grenade attacks in Kigali, one near the city's genocide memorial. A third explosion elsewhere kills at least one person. (BBC) (Reuters) Pakistan army kills 30 Taliban militants near Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province. (Global Security) A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of Shi'ite Muslims in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people. (Global Security)

March 5, 2010 Wikinews articles

Two police officers injured in Pentagon shooting incident US Congressional panel claims Turkey committed genocide Britain thinks Africans are barbaric, claims South African President BBC: Ethiopian famine aid 'siphoned off' to buy weapons according to rebels, report Five construction workers shot dead in Afghanistan Explosion, fire temporarily halts cereal production at General Mills plant "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot retires Early Iraq elections marred by violence China's military spending increases by 7.5%