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Current events of
March 7, 2011
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2011-03-07
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Libyan Civil War
NATO
decides to increase surveillance flights over
Libya
to a 24/7 basis.
(MSNBC)
The Arab media reports that
Muammar Gaddafi
sent envoys to
Benghazi
to negotiate terms for his withdrawal from power but the terms are rejected.
(Asharq Alawsat)
,
(BBC)
,
(Reuters)
2011 Yemeni protests
Protesters in the central jail of the
Yemeni
capital
Sana'a
take part in anti-
Saleh
demonstrations, where warning shots are fired.
(Al Jazeera)
2010–2011 Ivorian crisis
Rebel forces seize a third town in western
Ivory Coast
from government forces.
(Reuters)
Twenty-three oil workers are
kidnapped
in eastern
Colombia
with
FARC
rebels the most likely suspects.
(Voice of America)
Arts and culture
Pablo Picasso
's
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
, the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, goes on public exhibition at the
Tate Gallery
in
London
,
England
.
(Reuters via Yahoo News)
Warner Bros. Television
sacks actor
Charlie Sheen
from the cast of television show
Two and a Half Men
.
(TMZ)
,
(Sky News)
Business and economy
The
New York Times
reports that
French
luxury group
LVMH
will take control of
Italy
's
Bulgari
in an all-share deal.
(
New York Times
)
Oil prices rise to their highest level in 29 months as
fighting
in
Libya
intensifies.
(Bloomberg via
Business Week
)
Australia
's Climate Change Minister,
Greg Combet
, says that the government's plans to impose a
carbon tax
, part of a phase-in of an
emissions trading
program, will impact less than 1,000 companies.
(Reuters)
Laurent Gbagbo
, the
President of Ivory Coast
, nationalises the
coffee
and
cocoa
industries which are the
Ivory Coast
's two biggest crops.
(CNN)
AOL
completes its purchase of the
Huffington Post
.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
Disasters
New Zealand earthquake
The
state of emergency
put in place after the
2011 Canterbury earthquake
in
Christchurch
,
New Zealand
, is extended.
(AAP via SBS News)
A National Memorial Service to honour earthquake victims will be held on March 18.
(
New Zealand Herald
)
A strong 6.6 magnitude
earthquake
occurs off the coast of the
Solomon Islands
in the
Pacific Ocean
.
(AFP via Yahoo! News)
International relations
China closes
Tibet
to foreign tourists, ahead of the third anniversary since
unrest there in 2008
.
(AFP via Google News)
(MSN Malaysia)
Yang Jiechi
, the
Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
, warns the
United States
that relations between China and the US will deteriorate if it sells weapons to
Taiwan
.
(Reuters)
Robert Gates
, the
United States Secretary of Defense
, arrives in
Afghanistan
to meet with the
President of Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai
.
(Reuters)
Britain
upgrades
its relation
with
Palestine
to a mission, the second-highest rank.
(Haaretz)
Law and crime
A court in
Zimbabwe
frees 38 people detained for weeks on charges of attempting to overthrow
President
Robert Mugabe
, after they watched videos of the
Arab Spring
.
(Reuters)
Tunisia
dissolves the country's secret police, accused of human rights abuses.
(BBC)
Former
President of France
Jacques Chirac
faces charges that related to alleged use of
Paris
city government resources to benefit his
Rally for the Republic
party while serving as
Mayor of Paris
.
(AP via Yahoo News)
Politics
A new cabinet of
Egypt
is sworn in by the Chairman of the
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
.
(Al Arabiya)
Seiji Maehara
resigns as
Foreign Minister of Japan
after becoming involved in an illegal
political donation
scandal.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
United States Senator
John Ensign
announces that he will not stand in the
2012 Senate elections
in
Nevada
.
(
Las Vegas Sun
)
,
(Fox Las Vegas)
,
(
Washington Post
)
President of the United States
Barack Obama
lifts a two year freeze on the
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
at the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
.
(BBC)
,
(CNN)
ABC News
reports that
President
Barack Obama
will nominate the
United States Secretary of Commerce
Gary Locke
as the next
United States
ambassador to the
People's Republic of China
.
(ABC News)
Science
A possible discovery of extraterrestrial life forms in samples of
CI1
meteorites is reported in the
Journal of Cosmology
by
Richard B. Hoover
.
(
Daily Times
)
(
The Star
)
However, NASA formally distanced itself from Hoover's claim and his lack of expert peer-reviews.
(ABC News)
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