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- Mata Tuatagaloa Keli is sworn in as Samoa's first female judge. (RNZI)
- Italian police seek to arrest 41 alleged members of the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate based in Calabria with suspects also sought in Germany, Canada and Australia. (AP via Forbes), (SBS)
- A St Louis police officer and two U.S. Marshals are shot, one fatally, while serving an arrest warrant in south St. Louis, Missouri. The gunman is killed.(KSDK), (St Louis Today)
- International Criminal Court judges order two Darfur rebels to stand trial for a deadly 2007 attack on peacekeepers. (Canadian Press via Google News)
- Syrian human rights activist and government critic Haitham al-Maleh is released from prison as part of an amnesty for those convicted of minor crimes and those aged over 70. (BBC)
- Mexico's youngest police chief, Marisol Valles García of the town of Práxedis G. Guerrero, Chihuahua, seeks asylum to the United States after receiving death threats. (BBC)
- Twenty-one Catholic priests in the US city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are suspended after being named in an investigation in claims of widespread child molestation. (BBC)
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- More than 30 people in and around the US city of Baltimore, Maryland, are arrested on drugs charges, including actress Felicia Pearson from television series The Wire. (The Washington Post)
- A Federal grand jury indicts eleven members of a firearms trafficking ring based in Columbus, New Mexico including the mayor and police chief. (Las Cruces Sun News)
- In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, a Liberal Democrat member disclosed, with the protection of parliamentary privilege, the fact that the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland has obtained an injunction banning the publication of information about him, even the simple identification of this individual, Fred Goodwin, as a banker. (Telegraph)
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- Donald Elmer, the Chief Executive of a small U.S.–based pharmaceutical company, Koronis, said that he is looking to raise money through London's Alternative Investment Market, thus enabling the next stage of clinical tests for his company's anti-HIV product, KP-1461. (Reuters)
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- Dozens of workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex (also called Fukushima I) have stayed behind to end the radiation leaks, known as the Fukushima 50, risking fatal radiation exposure. (Guardian)
- There is a third explosion in four days at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami causing damage to its steel containment structure, the withdrawal of emergency workers and expected increases in radiation. (AP) (New York Times) (New York Times) (Daily Telegraph)
- Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano reports that as of 10.22 a.m. local time, radiation levels of 30 millisieverts per hour were measured between the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, while at the No. 3 reactor 400 millisieverts per hour were detected, a harmful level to humans. (Bloomberg)
- A senior adviser to the Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan says that a fire has broken out in a fourth reactor at the Fukushima I power plant but it is later extinguished, with the radiation reading at 0831 local time (2331 GMT) climbing to 8,217 microsieverts an hour. (CNN) (AP)(news.com.au)(BBC)
- Prime Minister Kan warns people living within a 30 kilometre radius of the plant to stay indoors and a 30-km no-fly zone is established around the plant. (AP via The Guardian) (IAEA)
- A rise in radiation levels in Tokyo leads to panic buying and some residents leaving the capital. (Reuters)
- The United States Geological Survey revises the strength of the earthquake to 9.0. (USGS)
- The National Police Agency advises that the official death toll from the quake is 2,414 dead with 3,118 injured. (AFP via News Limited)
- Share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange decline by 12 per cent with the TOPIX index recording its largest fall since 1987. (Market Watch) (Reuters)
- A magnitude 6.2 aftershock hits Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture southwest of Tokyo. (USGS) (Kyodo) (Sky News Australia) (Adelaide Now)
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- Police in Cambodia ask prosecutors to charge recruitment firm T&P with illegally detaining its staff. (BBC)
- Raymond Davis, an official with the United States embassy in Pakistan, is acquitted of charges of two counts of murder and released from jail after compensation is paid to the victims' families, the result of intense diplomatic talks between the United States and Pakistan.(CNN) (Times of Pakistan)
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- Indian Railways driver Surekha Yadav loco pilot mail, drives the Deccan Queen from Pune to Mumbai CST, for Central Railways division, and becomes the first woman from this country to do so.
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- Police are growing concerned for the safety of Sian O'Callaghan, a 22-year-old woman who went missing while walking home from a nightclub in the English city of Swindon in the early hours of Saturday 19 March. (BBC)
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- John-Paul Langbroek stands down as the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian state of Queensland with the sitting Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman favoured to take his place. (ABC News)
- The Philippine House of Representatives votes to impeach the Ombudsman, Merceditas Gutierrez, for allegedly failing to investigate former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and other senior officials of her administration with sufficient vigor. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Dennis Daugaard, the Governor of South Dakota, signs an abortion bill requiring women to undertake counselling and wait for 72 hours, the longest period in the US. (Argus Leader)
- All 3 opposition parties in the Canadian House of Commons, who together form a majority, state they will not support the 2011 federal budget, precipitating a possible election. (Globe and Mail), (CBC News)
- Bob Buckhorn is elected as the mayor of the US city of Tampa, Florida. (WUSF)
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- Thousands of people gather in Canberra, Australia to protest the introduction of a carbon tax, Prime Minister Julia Gillard met the Australian Youth Climate Coalition which is pushing for a price on emissions, while climate change mitigation activists including the Australian Council of Trade Unions delivered a petition to Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Greg Combet signed by about 10,000 "working Australians" urging the government to take action. (AAP via Adelaide Now) (The Australian) (Sydney Morning Herald) (Daily Telegraph)
- The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivers the 2011 United Kingdom budget. (The Daily Telegraph)
- The Israeli Knesset passes a new law which requires the state to fine local authorities and other state-funded bodies for denying Israel as Jewish, democratic state or supporting racism, armed resistance against Israel, or desecrating the state flag or national symbols, including holding events marking Nakba Day.(BBC)(Ynet)(The Jerusalem Post)
- The Liberal Party of Canada announces it will introduce a motion to the Canadian House of Commons that calls on MPs to support a committee report finding the Conservative government in contempt of Parliament. The finding was in response to the government allegedly not supplying sufficient information on costs of crime bills, purchasing F-35 fighter jets for the Canadian Forces, and corporate tax cuts. (CBC)
- The Prime Minister of Portugal José Sócrates resigns after the parliament rejects austerity measures. (AP via The Star), (Reuters)
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- 45,000 Inca artefacts taken by Yale University from Machu Picchu almost a century ago, and described by the president as "the dignity and pride of Peru", arrive in Lima after a long campaign by Peruvians to have them returned. (BBC)
- The finalists for the Man Booker International Prize are announced, including Wang Anyi, Juan Goytisolo, James Kelman, John le Carré, Amin Maalouf, David Malouf, Dacia Maraini, Rohinton Mistry, Philip Pullman, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, Su Tong and Anne Tyler. (Man Booker Prize)
- The oldest copy of Codex Holmiensis, dating from 1280, is returned to Denmark after 300 years in Sweden. [1] (Danish)
- The orca Tilikum resumes performing shows at Seaworld Orlando 13 months after being involved in the death of trainer Dawn Blancheau. (ABC News America)
- The former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to acting in an animated television series. (AP via MSNBC)
- British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband announces that he is engaged to his partner Justine Thornton. (The Telegraph)
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