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In sumo, Mongolian wrestler Kakuryū Rikisaburō is promoted to yokozuna, becoming the 71st person to earn the title.
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (pictured) wins the Pritzker Prize.
Malaysia Airlines announces that Flight 370, which went missing on 8 March, crashed in the southern Indian Ocean with no survivors.
A mudslide in the US state of Washington kills at least 16 people and leaves more than 100 missing.
More than 100 people are killed when a boat capsizes in Lake Albert between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Russia formally annexes Crimea while the European Union and Ukraine sign an association agreement.

Recent deaths: Adolfo Suárez – Fred Phelps

March 27, 2014 (Thursday)

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March 26, 2014 (Wednesday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

A police tear gas canister critically injures a 10-year-old child after hitting him at close range at a Peace and Democracy Party event in Diyarbakır, Turkey. (BBC)

Business and economy

Nissan announces the recall of over one million vehicles, citing faulty airbags. (KNTV)
Social games developer King completes its initial public offering, valuing the company at US$7 billion. (Forbes)

Disasters and accidents

A massive fire breaks out in Back Bay, Boston killing 2 firefighters and injuring at least 16 people. (New York Daily News)

International relations

Three U.S. secret service agents are sent home due to a "drunken incident" ahead of U.S. president Barack Obama's arrival in the Netherlands. (The Guardian)
North Korea fires two mid-range ballistic missiles as the leaders of the United States, Japan and South Korea meet to discuss the security threat it poses to the region. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

The Guardian deputy editor Paul Johnson confirms that British law enforcement agencies have threatened to close the newspaper over its role in publishing global surveillance information obtained from U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden. (The Irish Times)
Garda phone tapping scandal:
- Alan Shatter fights for his political survival in front of the Republic's parliament when he faces questions about yesterday's revelations of decades-long nationwide bugging. (The Guardian)
- It emerges that the Taoiseach Enda Kenny dispatched a senior civil servant to the former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan before his abrupt departure yesterday; Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin accuses Kenny of having effectively "sacked" the Commissioner. (RTÉ News)
- Justice minister Alan Shatter corrects the parliamentary record, admitting he was wrong to insult whistleblowers. (The Journal)
- The trial of two men suspected of IRA membership collapses, the first court case to be averted by this week's events in the Republic. (Irish Independent)
- Transport minister Leo Varadkar, whose remarks against his colleague Shatter directly preceded this week's events, speaks out, confirming he has "difficulty getting my head around it at the moment". (The Journal)
A Turkish court lifts the ban on Twitter imposed by the government after a user spread allegations of corruption. (BBC)
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, is convicted in New York City of conspiring to kill Americans in his role as spokesman for al-Qaida. (Associated Press)
California State Senator Leland Yee is arrested in a raid involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the California Highway Patrol for alleged firearms trafficking, bribery, and corruption. (KRON)

Politics

Egyptian Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi resigns from his position as Minister of Defense and announces his bid for the upcoming presidential election. (Reuters)
Taavi Rõivas is sworn in as Prime Minister of Estonia, succeeding Andrus Ansip and becoming the youngest government leader in the European Union at 34 years. (Eesti Rahvusringhääling)

Sports

In sumo, Mongolian wrestler Kakuryū Rikisaburō is promoted to yokozuna, becoming the 71st person to earn the title. (Kyodo via Mainichi Daily News)

March 25, 2014 (Tuesday)

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Arts and Culture

A Girl Scout in Oklahoma City is reported as having sold 18,107 boxes of cookies, breaking the previous record of 18,000. (KRON)
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott restores Knights and Dames to the Australian Honours System through the Order of Australia. (ABC)

Business and economy

The U.S. District Court in Manhattan finds that the trustee of MF Global may proceed with a lawsuit against former executives thereof, including former CEO Jon Corzine. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

A bus in Tak Province, Thailand, plunges into a ravine, killing 30 people and injuring 22. (BBC)
2014 Oso mudslide:
- The death toll has risen to 16 with an additional 8 bodies located and scores missing. (AP via Washington Post)

Health

The World Health Organisation estimates that air pollution contributed to seven million deaths in 2012. (The Telegraph)

Law and crime

Garda phone tapping scandal:
- Martin Callinan resigns as Commissioner of Ireland's Garda Síochána (national police) over his "disgusting" comment about whistleblowers made to a parliamentary committee. Callinan had also been involved in controversy over the recent surveillance/bugging of GSOC. (BBC) (The Journal)
- As Callinan goes, details emerge that the national police have been involved in phone tapping since the 1980s: the Irish Government establishes an inquiry into the matter. (BBC)
- A former Garda is found to have perverted the course of justice on two occasions and admits having cocaine for sale or supply. (RTÉ News)
- A letter titled “Recordings of Telephone Conversations made and retained in Garda Stations” is leaked revealing that Callinan mentioned the telephone tapping to the Department of Justice more than two weeks ago and that the Attorney General knew on 11 November 2013. (The Journal)
Islamist unrest in Egypt (2013–present):
- Mohammed Badie, the guide of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, will appear in court with 680 others to face charges of incitement to kill. (BBC)
Four men are arrested after BASE jumping from the top of the World Trade Center in New York City. (CNN)

Politics and elections

2014 Ukrainian revolution:
- Oleksandr Muzychko, a prominent member of Ukraine's Right Sector nationalistic party, is killed under unclear circumstances. (Moscow Times) (AP via CBC)
Ihor Tenyukh is sacked as Minister for Defence to be replaced by Gen. Mykhaylo Koval following the loss of Crimea. (Washington Post)

March 24, 2014 (Monday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Twenty soldiers are killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in eastern Yemen. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370:
- Chinese aircrew report seeing "suspicious objects" in the southern Indian Ocean while searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. (Courier Mail)
- Najib Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, announces that with information from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch, flight MH370 went down over the southern Indian Ocean with "all lives lost." (CNN)
The death toll from the Oso mudslide in the US state of Washington rises to fourteen with dozens of people unaccounted for. (AP via Yahoo! News)
The death toll from the Lake Albert boat disaster on March 22 rises to 107. (CNN)
A train overruns the buffers at Chicago O'Hare Airport station, injuring 33 people.(Chicago Tribune)

Health

An outbreak of Ebola virus which has killed at least 59 people in Guinea continues its spread, entering Liberia and threatens to spread to Sierra Leone. (Bloomberg)

International relations

The 2014 Nuclear Security Summit commences in The Hague, Netherlands. (Al Jazeera)
2014 Crimean crisis:
- The interim President of Ukraine Olexander Turchynov orders Ukrainian forces to withdraw from Crimea. (BBC)
- UK Prime Minister David Cameron says the planned 40th G8 summit scheduled to be held in the Russian city of Sochi will not take place because of Russia's actions in Crimea. (BBC)

Law and crime

Islamist unrest in Egypt (2013–present):
- A court in Minya, Egypt, sentences 528 supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi to death for a range of offenses including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property. It is the largest mass death sentence handed down in recent history anywhere in the world. (BBC) (The Independent)
A Chinese court jails a man for 18 months after he applied for permission to protest on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. (Al Jazeera)

March 23, 2014 (Sunday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Turkish F-16s shoot down a Syrian military aircraft for purportedly violating Turkish airspace. A Syrian Arab Republic spokesman denies this claim and says the aircraft was in Syrian airspace when it was shot down. (AP) (Al-Arabiya)
Two gunmen storm a Christian church in Kenya during a Sunday service, killing at least six people and wounding more than a dozen others. (Reuters), (ABC News Australia)

Disasters

2014 Oso mudslide:
- Eighteen people are still missing after a landslide Saturday in Oso, Snohomish County, in America's Washington state that has claimed at least three lives. (Yahoo News)

Health

The United Nations Children's Fund reports that an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that has so far claimed the lives of 59 victims has spread from southern Guinea to the capital Conakry. (AAP via News Limited)

Law and crime

Shrien Dewani has his extradition date to South Africa set for 7 April to face court for the murder of Anni Dewani. (Sky News)

Politics and elections

Elections in France:
- Voters in France go to the polls for municipal elections with candidates from the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement performing well. (AFP via NineMSN), (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan:
- Protesters opposed to the vote of the Cross-Strait Trade Agreement without a clause-by-clause review continue to occupy the Taiwanese parliament.
- Protesters push to occupy the nearby Executive Yuan as well. (FocusTaiwan)

Sports

Barcelona moved to within a point of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga as they twice came from behind thanks to a Lionel Messi hat-trick to edge a thrilling El Clasico 4-3 at the Santiago Bernabeu.

March 22, 2014 (Saturday)

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Post-civil war violence in Libya
- The Libyan National Army fights with rebels occupying oil ports near Benghazi. (Reuters)
2014 Crimean crisis
- Russian troops capture Novofedorivka, an airbase of the Ukrainian Navy in the western region of the Crimean Peninsula. (BBC)
Communist insurgency in the Philippines
- Top leaders and couple of the CPP-NPA-NDF, Benito and Wilma Tiamzon was arrested by joint military and police forces in Aloguinsan, Cebu. Wilma Tiamzon is the secretary general of militant group while Benito is the chairman. (GMA Network News)

Business and economy

A member of the governing council of the European Central Bank says that the ECB may yet cut interest rates still further, into negative territory. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

Five people die after a light plane catches fire on take-off at Caboolture Airport in Queensland, Australia. (The Guardian)
At least 35 people die in Balochistan, Pakistan, in a collision between a petrol tanker and two buses. (PTI via Business Standard)
2014 Oso mudslide:
- A landslide kills two people, and injures six in Oso, Washington, United States. (CNN)
2014 Galveston Bay fuel oil spill:
- A barge carrying nearly a million gallons of oil collides with a ship in Galveston Bay on the coast of the US state of Texas causing an oil spill. (AP)

International relations

The Veneto region votes to secede from Italy in an informal online referendum. (The Daily Mail)

Sports

Major League Baseball starts its 2014 season at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks by a score of 3–1. (AP via ESPN)

March 21, 2014 (Friday)

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Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- Gunmen attack a police headquarters north of Baghdad and suicide bombers strike across Iraq killing 25 people and injuring dozens. (AP via Washington Post)
Clashes erupt in Tripoli, Lebanon, between Syrian regime supporters and detractors, leaving 3 dead. (TIME)

Business and economy

Turkey restricts access to Twitter hours after the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens to "root out" the social network where politically sensitive documents had been published. (AP)

International relations

2014 Crimean Crisis:
- The Russian Federation Council, the upper house of the Federal Assembly, approves the annexation of Crimea. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- The President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs the legislation completing the annexation of Crimea. (Reuters)
Ukraine signs an association accord with the European Union in defiance of Russia. (AFP via Google News)

Law and crime

American judge Bernard A. Friedman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan overturns Michigan's ban on same-sex marriages. (AP via Washington Post)
A kindergarten lunch in Qiubei County, China, is poisoned, leaving 2 children dead and another 30 sick. (AP via CTV)

Politics and elections

Thai general election, 2014:
- The Constitutional Court of Thailand invalidates the general election held on February 2, on the grounds that voting was not held on the same day throughout the country. (AFP via Malaysia Today)

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