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Current events of
March 17, 2010
(
2010-03-17
)
(Wednesday)
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Protests in
Thailand
by the
National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship
continue, with supporters throwing their own
blood
outside the house of
Prime Minister
Abhisit Vejjajiva
.
(Thai News Agency)
(Al Jazeera)
A
French
police officer dies in a shootout with
Basque
nationalist group
ETA
in
Paris
, the first French officer to do so.
(CNN)
30 members of the "
Ladies in White
" opposition movement in
Cuba
are arrested at a demonstration in the capital
Havana
.
(AFP)
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
Seven
Chinese
fisherman kidnapped off
Cameroon
's disputed
Bakassi
peninsula are released.
(CCTV)
(BBC)
Nigeria
's acting president
Goodluck Jonathan
dissolves the country's cabinet.
(
The Punch
)
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
Saint Patrick's Day
President of the United States
Barack Obama
meets
Taoiseach
Brian Cowen
at the
White House
in
Washington, D.C.
,
United States
.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(
Irish Independent
)
(
The Daily Telegraph
)
Vice President of the United States
Joe Biden
makes an error when he suggests that Cowen's mother is dead.
(
The Daily Telegraph
)
(
Evening Herald
)
(Fox News)
(
The Times
)
More than half a million people fill the streets of
Dublin
for the parade there.
(
The Sydney Morning Herald
)
(RTÉ)
President of the United States
Barack Obama
announces that the
United States
will pursue aggressive sanctions to prevent
Iran
from getting a nuclear weapon that could potentially spark a nuclear arms race in the
Middle East
.
(Reuters)
An investigation is launched into how a
Wal-Mart
shop in
New Jersey
,
United States
announced "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now".
(
The Daily Telegraph
)
American television officials issue an apology following the broadcast of two hours of
pornography
on two children's channels.
(BBC)
(
The Guardian
)
(Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
(
The Times of India
)
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