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Current events of
March 5, 2011
(
2011-03-05
)
(Saturday)
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Armed conflicts
2011 Libyan civil war
:
Battle of Zawiya
: rebels beat back a pro-Gaddafi push into the city.
(BBC)
(Al Arabiya)
An eight member
United Kingdom
Special Air Service
team and a junior
diplomat
are captured by
Libyan
rebels as a secret effort to contact the rebels backfires.
(
Daily Mail
)
Arts and culture
Slumdog Millionaire
souvenirs are destroyed after the home of actress
Rubina Ali
burns down in a fire in
Garib Nagar
near
Bandra Railway Station
in
Mumbai
. 21 people are wounded and more than 2,000 others become homeless.
(BBC)
Disasters
A search of
ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch
has found no bodies from the
2011 Canterbury earthquake
despite fears that there were 22 bodies buried there - the confirmed death toll is 165.
(Stuff and NZPA)
A
tornado
hits the town of
Rayne
in the US state of
Louisiana
resulting in one death, at least eleven injuries and 50 homes destroyed.
(AP via
Indiana Republic
)
,
(
The Daily Advertiser
)
,
(CNN)
,
(Fox News)
At least 25 people are killed after a truck and a bus collide in
Brazil
's
Santa Catarina
state.
(AFP via ABC News)
,
(CNN)
Six people are killed when an
Antonov An-148
loses a wing in flight
and crashes.
(Belfast Telegraph)
International relations
South Korea
reports China's formal invitation to probable
North Korean
heir
Kim Jong-un
to visit the country, though China has not confirmed this.
(BBC)
Law and crime
Prime Minister of Italy
Silvio Berlusconi
is put on trial for corruption again, one of the four trials he is involved in at the moment.
(BBC)
United States
aid worker
Alan Gross
has been found guilty of crimes against the state of
Cuba
supposedly for setting up illegal
Internet
connections.
(BBC)
Politics and elections
Two government ministers in
Oman
are replaced amid
ongoing demonstrations
in the country.
(Reuters)
Saudi Arabia
imposes a ban on all protests, after demonstrations in the east of the country.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
2011 National People's Congress
: Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao
delivers the annual Government Work Report to the
National People's Congress
in the
Great Hall of the People
in
Beijing
, outlining the priorities for the Chinese government in the next five years.
(BBC)
(
China Daily
)
Phil Hogan
says
Fine Gael
and the
Labour Party
have agreed a draft of a proposed Programme for Government as talks between the political parties resume at
Government Buildings
in
Dublin
following
the recent general election
.
(RTÉ)
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