March 28 2010

29 March 2010 (2010-03-29) (Monday) edit history watch

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

Current events of 28 March 2010 (2010-03-28) (Sunday) edit history watch

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

Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek gets hero's welcome in hometown Jenson Button wins 2010 Australian Grand Prix Wikipedia and sister projects prepare new, easier interface

Current events of 27 March 2010 (2010-03-27) (Saturday) edit history watch

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

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