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Current events of
March 8, 2012
(
2012-03-08
)
(Thursday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
2011–2012 Syrian uprising
:
Abdo Hussameddin
, the
Syrian
deputy oil minister, announces that he is resigning and joining the Opposition.
(BBC)
Syrian dissidents reject a call by
Kofi Annan
to stop fighting and seek peace talks.
(Reuters)
Police in
Dublin
remove the
Occupy Dame Street
camp during an overnight raid.
(
The Irish Times
)
(RTE)
British Prime Minister
David Cameron
announces that two engineers – Briton Chris McManus and Italian Franco Lamolinara – who were abducted by
Islamic extremists
in
Nigeria
in May 2011 were killed during a rescue attempt by British and Nigerian forces.
(BBC)
Business and finance
Greece secures a
debt-restructuring deal
with private lenders.
(
New York Times
)
Inflation
levels in China fall substantially.
(CNNMoney)
Spanx
inventor
Sara Blakely
becomes the youngest self-made female
billionaire
on
Forbes'
list.
(
Forbes
)
Toyota
recalls 700,000 cars over safety concerns.
(
The Guardian
)
Disaster
Evacuation orders are issued for the
Australian
towns of
Griffith
and
Forbes
due to
floods
moving west through the
Murray–Darling basin
.
(Bloomberg)
Law enforcement and crime
A gunman kills one person and injures seven others before himself being shot dead at the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
's Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic in
Pittsburgh
,
Pennsylvania
.
(CNN)
Former
Los Angeles Police Department
detective
Stephanie Lazarus
is found guilty of a high profile 1986 murder.
(NPR)
Science and health
The first full map of the
debris field
of the remains of the
RMS
Titanic
is announced.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
A study suggests that donor
stem cells
may prevent
organ rejection
in imperfectly matched
transplant
cases.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
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