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Current events of
March 6, 2010
(
2010-03-06
)
(Saturday)
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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)
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