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Current events of
March 19, 2013
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2013-03-19
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
19 March 2013 Iraq attacks
:
A series of
bombings
and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across
Iraq
.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
(CNN)
Kurdish–Turkish conflict
:
Two people are injured in explosions at
Turkey
's
justice ministry
and the headquarters of the governing
AK Party
in
Ankara
.
(BBC)
Business and economy
2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis
:
Cypriot
lawmakers overwhelmingly reject the
EC
–
ECB
–
IMF
troika
plan to tax all
bank deposits
.
(BBC)
(RTÉ News)
Disasters and accidents
A
bus
crash in the
Indian
state of
Maharashtra
kills at least 37 people and injures 14 others.
(AAP via
Herald Sun
)
At least 16 people are dead after
landslides
in a mountainous area north of the
Brazilian
city of
Rio de Janeiro
.
(BBC)
Law and crime
Saudi Arabia
police
arrest one
Iranian
, one
Lebanese
and 16 Saudis on charges of
spying
.
(BBC)
An American man is sentenced to between five and ten years in prison for the
murder
of Irish tourist Nicola Furlong in
Japan
.
(
The Irish Times
)
(
Irish Independent
)
A suspect, Qari Abdul Saeed, is arrested in
Pakistan
for the 2002 beheading of
The Wall Street Journal
reporter
Daniel Pearl
.
(CNN)
(NBC News)
In the
U.S. state
of
Ohio
, Thomas Lane receives three
life sentences
for the
child murders
at
Chardon High School
that he committed in February 2012 as a 17-year-old.
(AP)
The
United States Supreme Court
holds in a
6–3 decision
that the
first-sale doctrine
applies to the domestic sale of foreign copies of copyrighted work lawfully made abroad.
(IP-Watch)
Benjamin Pierce Bishop, a
civil defense
contractor who works in
intelligence
, was charged with giving
U.S.
national security secrets his
Chinese
girlfriend
.
(AP via
New York Post
)
Politics and elections
In
Ukraine
, a fight breaks out during a session of the
Verkhovna Rada
over the use of the
Russian language
in politics.
(Sky News)
(
Kyiv Post
)
(MSN)
Religion
Hundreds of thousands of people attend the
papal inauguration
ceremony for
Pope Francis
in
Rome
's
Saint Peter's Square
.
(BBC)
(AFP via
Straits Times
)
Science and technology
NASA
's
Mars rover
Curiosity
extends evidence of
water-bearing
minerals when studying the rock
Tintina
.
(BBC)
(NASA)
(JPL)
The
United States Air Force
successfully
launches
an
Atlas V
401 rocket carrying a
missile defense
satellite
SBIRS-GEO 2
.
(Space.com)
NASA
publishes
LRO
images of the two
craters
on the
Moon
, where twin
GRAIL
probes ended their
gravity-mapping
mission in December 2012.
(NASA)
(Space.com)
(BBC)
Sport
English
striker
Michael Owen
, who plays for
Stoke City
, announces his retirement from
football
at the end of the
2012–13 Premier League
season.
(BBC)
(
The Guardian
)
Former
Danish
road bicycle racer
Rolf Sørensen
admits in a
press release
that he utilised
EPO
and
cortisone
during his professional career.
(Cycling News)
In
baseball
, the
Dominican Republic
wins the
2013 World Baseball Classic
defeating
Puerto Rico
3–0 in the
final
.
(MLB)
(
The Guardian
)
(ESPN)
In
wrestling
, the
2013 European Wrestling Championships
begins today in
Tbilisi
,
Georgia
.
(CELA)
(Xinhua)
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