Portal:Current events/2014 March 31

Current events of March 31, 2014 (2014-03-31) (Monday)

Armed conflict and attacks Korean maritime border incidents: North and South Korea exchange artillery fire across sea boundaries. (AFP via Yahoo News) Explosions kill at least five people and injure several more in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. (BBC) Mexican Drug War The Mexican Navy kills Knights Templar Cartel high-ranking leader Enrique Plancarte Solís. (Milenio) Arts and culture How I Met Your Mother airs its final episode. (Variety) The Japanese TV series Waratte Iitomo!, whose presenter Tamori holds the Guinness World Record for appearing on the show for 32 consecutive years, comes to an end as its 8054th and final episode airs. (The Japan News), (The Japan Times) International relations The United Nations International Court of Justice rules that Japan's Antarctic whaling program is not scientific but commercial and forbids grants of further permits. (BBC), (ABC News Australia) Tuvalu withdraws its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia after re-establishing diplomatic relations with Georgia. (World Bulletin) Law and crime A Pakistani court charges former President Pervez Musharraf with high treason in relation to the imposition of the emergency rule in 2007. (BBC) Politics and elections French politics French government and Socialist Party admit major defeat following the French municipal elections, 2014 The President of France François Hollande appoints Manuel Valls, previously Minister of the Interior, as the new Prime Minister. He replaces Jean-Marc Ayrault. (Time) Science and technology The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases a new report outlining the impact of climate change on the world at the end of a week of meetings in Yokohama, Japan. (BBC)