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March 28, 2011
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2011-03-28
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Arab Spring
:
2011 Syrian protests
Syria forces open fire on protesters in Daraa, witness says although other reports claim that they were firing shots in the air.
(
Haaretz
)
(Reuters)
Syria's VP says Assad will announce important decisions that will 'please the people' in the next two days.
(
Haaretz
)
A Syrian government official says the
state of emergency
law is to be lifted.
(CNN)
Two
Reuters
journalists arrested on Saturday in
Damascus
are released.
(Reuters)
2011 Libyan civil war
Opposition forces in the
2011 Libyan civil war
attack
Muammar Gaddafi
's hometown of
Sirte
with disputed claims that they have captured it.
(Al Jazeera)
(
Jerusalem Post
)
Lieutenant-General
Charles Bouchard
of the
Canadian Forces Air Command
is named to lead enforcement of the
Libya no fly zone
.
(
Globe and Mail
)
(
National Post
)
(Defense News)
The
President of the United States
Barack Obama
gives a televised address on progress in the Libyan campaign.
(
Washington Post
)
,
(
Sydney Morning Herald
)
2011 Yemeni protests
An explosion at a weapons factory taken over by
Islamist
militants in southern
Yemen
kills at least 121 people.
(BBC)
(
Philippine Star
)
2011 Bahraini protests
Bahrain
rejects a mediation offer by
Kuwait
to resolve the country's political crisis.
(Al Jazeera)
(Reuters)
Al Wefaq
, the leading
Shi'ite
opposition party, claims that 250 people have been detained and 47 held in detention since the declaration of
martial law
.
(Reuters)
2011 Moroccan protests
Teachers plan to stage a nationwide strike demanding better benefits.
(Reuters)
2010-2011 Ivorian crisis
:
Rebel forces loyal to presidential claimant
Alassane Ouattara
seize the town of
Duékoué
in western
Côte d'Ivoire
from government forces.
(Xinhua)
A
car bomb
attack on a construction company in
Afghanistan
's
Paktika Province
kills at least 13 people and injures another fifty.
(
The Australian
)
Seventeen militants and three
Russian
security force members die in fighting in
Ingushetia
while two suspects in the
Domodedovo International Airport bombing
are arrested.
(Al-Jazeera)
Arts and culture
A 2,500-year-old preserved human
brain
dating from the
Iron Age
is found in
Heslington
in the
English
city of
York
.
(Live Science via Fox News)
Business and economy
Qatar
recognizes
Libyan rebels
as the representative of the Libyan people, after a deal to market
crude oil
.
(EuroNews)
(WorldNews.com)
(Qatar News Agency)
Volkswagen
recalls 71000 2011 model
Jetta
sedans
due to a wiring problem.
(
Detroit News
)
Disasters
Fukushima I nuclear accidents
Radioactive seawater from the accidents travels further from the
Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant
.
(AP via Yahoo! News)
Plutonium
is found at five locations around the power plant.
(Voice of America)
International relations
The
International Atomic Energy Agency
calls a summit in
Vienna
to tackle concerns about nuclear safety following the
Fukushima crisis
.
(Reuters)
More than 500
Ethiopian
and
Somalian
migrants arrive in
Malta
from
Libya
.
(Reuters)
Law and crime
The appeal of former
Khmer Rouge
prison chief
Kaing Guek Eav
begins.
(
Phnom Penh Post
)
(
Straits Times
)
The trial of
Prime Minister of Italy
Silvio Berlusconi
on corruption charges commences.
(BBC)
A court in
southern Vietnam
sentences a zoo owner to three years imprisonment for selling the carcasses of dead
tigers
.
(
Straits Times
)
(
Malaysia Star
)
Politics
Egypt
is to hold
parliamentary elections
in September 2011.
(Reuters)
Barry O'Farrell
is sworn as the
Premier
of the
Australian
state of
New South Wales
following Saturday's
state election
.
(News Limited)
The
Governor
of the US state of
Michigan
Rick Snyder
signs legislation lowering the period that jobless workers can claim state
unemployment benefits
from 26 weeks to 20 weeks.
(AP via Yahoo! News)
Sport
The captain of the
Australia national rugby league team
Darren Lockyer
announces his retirement as at the end of the
2011 NRL season
.
(
Melbourne Herald-Sun
)
(
Brisbane Times
)
The opening date of the
Nippon Professional Baseball
season is deferred due to the
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
.
(
Los Angeles Times
via
Seattle Times
)
French
urban climber
Alain Robert
scales the worlds tallest building,
Burj Khalifa
in
Dubai
.
(BBC)
(Time)
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