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Renewed violence erupts in the Abyei region of Sudan. Approximately 70 deaths are reported and analysts warn that further conflict could threaten the peace process. (Reuters Alertnet)
Current events ofMarch 2, 2008 (2008-03-02) (Sunday)
A LufthansaAirbus 320 nearly crashes while landing in Hamburg, Germany due to high winds. The pilot was able to stablize the plane and successfully landed on the second try. No one was injured. (Stern)
The remains of Padre Pio, the Capuchin monk who died in 1968 after living for decades with inexplicable, bleeding wounds on his hands and feet, are exhumed. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
The bodies of six people are found in a Memphis, Tennessee home. Two of the dead are children, while three others remain in critical condition. (ABC News)
Current events ofMarch 4, 2008 (2008-03-04) (Tuesday)
The United StatesSenate passes legislation providing for more rigorous inspection of toys and other playthings imported into the United States. (AP via USA Today)
The United States and Iraq commence talks about the future of relationships between the two nations including a longer term US military presence in Iraq. (AP via Google News)
Current events ofMarch 9, 2008 (2008-03-09) (Sunday)
Sri Lankan voters in the Batticaloa district, an area formerly controlled by the Tamil Tigers, go to the polls in local government elections for first time in ten years. (BBC News)
Current events ofMarch 11, 2008 (2008-03-11) (Tuesday)
A gunman opens fire at a bank in McComb, Mississippi, killing two people, before forcing his wife into a car and driving away, later killing her and committing suicide. (WAPT)
A man under investigation for the sexual abuse of children at an orphanage in Sofia, Bulgaria, opens fire on teenage witnesses, killing one and wounding two others before committing suicide. (MSNBC)
Current events ofMarch 13, 2008 (2008-03-13) (Thursday)
The U.S. dollar, after repeatedly testing 100 yen in Asian dealings and early European action, breaks through to touch 99.75, its lowest level since November 1995. (Reuters)
Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart experience some of their warmest weather of record for this season as result of an Australian autumn heatwave. (The Age)
UNMIK and NATO KFOR forces clashed with Serb protesters in North Kosovo resulting in over 150 wounded after arresting Serb lawyers and court officials who had taken control of a UN court. The clashes are part of ongoing unrest following Kosovo's declaration of independence. (BBC News)
The Xinhua news agency reports for the first time that protests have spread to neighbouring provinces of Sichuan and Gansu as the Chinese authorities attempt to regain control. (AP via Google News)
Serbia formally proposes partitioning Kosovo along ethnic lines, asking the United Nations to ensure that Belgrade can control key institutions and functions in areas of the newly independent country where Serbs form a majority. (The International Herald Tribune)
Adam AirFlight 574: A final report finds the 102 on board died when pilots preoccupied with an instrument failure did not realise the 737 was descending out of control. (Xinhua)(Wikinews)
A federal indictment of a former official of Life for Relief and Development claims that Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Intelligence Service paid for a U.S. congressional delegation's trip to the country during the buildup to the war. A spokesman for the Department of Justice said the congressmen on the State Department-approved trip were not aware of this, and that "[n]one of the congressional representatives are accused of any wrongdoing." (CNN)
A gunman opens fire at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Georgia, United States, killing two people and critically wounding one other who later died of his injuries before being shot and wounded by police. (WTVM)
Current events ofMarch 28, 2008 (2008-03-28) (Friday)
Dwain Chambers: BBC, Sky Sports & The Sun newspaper are all carrying reports that Chambers is to announce he is to become an English rugby league player with Castleford Tigers. Chambers was previously an athlete and American Football player. (BBC News)
The enlargement of the EU'sborderless zone to eight Eastern European countries and Malta is completed through the lifting of air border controls between them and the 15 countries already part of the area. (European Commission)
War in Somalia (2008): Somali Islamists have seized control of a central town after clashes with government forces that left 11 people dead, residents and Islamists said. (France 24)
