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A suicide attack kills at least 48 people at a mosque in Khyber Agency, Pakistan.
Situ Gintung, a dam in Tangerang, Indonesia, fails, flooding hundreds of homes and killing at least 93 people.
Mirek Topolánek (pictured) tenders his resignation as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic following his government's loss of a parliamentary confidence vote.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India decides to relocate the 2009 Indian Premier League from India to South Africa due to security concerns.
Mount Redoubt, a stratovolcano in Alaska, undergoes a series of explosive eruptions.
Michael Misick resigns as Premier of the British Overseas Territory of Turks and Caicos Islands after self-government was suspended during a corruption investigation.
Japan defeats South Korea 5–3 in 10 innings to win the 2009 World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles.

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March 29, 2009 (Monday)

March 29, 2009 Wikinews articles

March 28, 2009 (Saturday)

Millions of people worldwide recognize Earth Hour by deactivating unnecessary lighting. (RTÉ) (BBC)
Demonstrators in London, England, demand that the G20 combat poverty, climate change, and unemployment. (BBC)
Police and fans of Northern Ireland and Poland battle after a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match in Belfast. (BBC)
Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. (CNN)
Well Armed wins the Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. (AP via Google News)
Taliban militants destroy 12 NATO trucks in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AFP via Google News)
The Red River rises above 40 feet, causing emergency evacuations in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. (BBC)
The Dunfermline Building Society in Scotland will be sold. (BBC)

March 28, 2009 Wikinews articles

March 27, 2009 (Friday)

Serial Shooter Dale Hausner receives six death sentences for six murders committed between 2005 and 2006. (AP via KSWO)
All six people in a recent helicopter accident are discovered dead in Turkey. (AP via Fox News)
A flash flood and the Situ Gintung dam's failure kill at least 58 people in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia. (BBC)
A suicide attack kills at least 50 people and injures 100 others in Jamrud, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
A radioactive lead ball containing Caesium-137 is missing from a deconstructed factory in Tongchaun, Shaanxi, China. (RTÉ)
Russia will establish a military force to protect its territorial claims in the Arctic. (BBC)
The Lancet accuses Pope Benedict XVI of "distorting...science" in his argument against the use of condoms. (BBC)
The United Kingdom's economy shrank by 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2008. (Sky News)
Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Corse-du-Sud Prefect Claude Érignac in 1998. (France 24)

March 27, 2009 Wikinews articles

March 26, 2009 (Thursday)

United States President Barack Obama announces a new military strategy for the War in North-West Pakistan and the War in Afghanistan. (CNN)
Franco-Russian mathematician Mikhail Gromov receives the 2009 Abel Prize. (MAA)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will renounce his title of Co-Prince of Andorra if the country does not change its banking laws. (Reuters via IHT)
Germany admits that the unidentified Phantom of Heilbronn serial killer never existed. (BBC)
Sudan alleges that an aircraft attacked an arms trafficking convoy near Port Sudan in January 2009. (YNET)
Forty-seven fragments of the meteoroid 2008 TC₃ are discovered in Sudan's Nubian Desert. (New Scientist)
A car bomb kills at least 16 people and injures 35 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (AFP)
International Space Station Expedition 19 launches aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. (NASA)
A Taliban suicide attack kills at least 11 people and injures 20 others in Jandola, Pakistan. (VOA)
Two tornadoes injure 24 people and damage 108 homes in Mississippi, United States. (CNN)
Somali pirates hijack ships from the Isle of Man, Greece, and the Seychelles, while three other ships escape. (Marine Log)
A bus–truck collision kills 14 people and injures four others in Petushki, Russia. (RTÉ)
Debris from an Arrow Air McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airplane strikes Manaus, Brazil. (BBC)

March 26, 2009 Wikinews articles

March 25, 2009 (Wednesday)

Sweden's Parliament will abolish the 50-öre coin on September 30, 2010. (Riksbanken)
A United States Air Force F-22 Raptor crashes near Edwards AF Base in California, killing its pilot. (AP via Star-Telegram) (BBC)
India's Board of Control for Cricket will relocate the 2009 Premier League to South Africa. (BBC)
North Korea prepares a Taepodong-2 ballistic missile for a launch between April 4 and 8. (Sky News)

March 25, 2009 Wikinews articles

March 24, 2009 (Tuesday)

Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek resigns after losing a confidence motion in the Chamber of Deputies. (IHT)
France will compensate victims of nuclear testing in Algeria and French Polynesia. (Reuters)
Japan defeats South Korea to win the World Baseball Classic. (ESPN)
Michael Misick resigns as Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, due to alleged corruption. (BBC)
South Africa denies Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso a visa to attend a peace conference in Johannesburg. (BBC)
The United Kingdom's Retail Prices Index reaches zero percent for the first time since 1960. (BBC)
Sixteen militants and eight Indian Army soldiers are killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara District. (BBC)
Italy jails Tuninter Flight 1153's two pilots for ten years for praying before ditching into the Mediterranean Sea. (Telegraph)
Chinese authorities block access to the YouTube video-sharing website. (New York Times)
The United States announces a plan to increase security along its border with Mexico. (Reuters)
Immaculata University discovers the mass grave of 57 Irish immigrants in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania. (Delaware County Daily Times)

March 24, 2009 Wikinews articles

March 23, 2009 (Monday)

A car bomb is located and defused near a shopping mall in Haifa, Israel. (BBC)
Two suicide attacks in Iraq kill at least 22 people and injure more than 50 others. (Bloomberg)
Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupts four more times. (Physorg)
The United States Treasury Department announces that it will purchase high-yield debts from banks. (Reuters)
Gjorge Ivanov of the VMRO–DPMNE leads the first round of Macedonia's presidential election. (Reuters via The Boston Globe)
FedEx Express Flight 80 crashes at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, killing both pilots. (CNN) (MSNBC)
A suicide attack kills one person and injures three others in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Sky News)
A Japanese cargo ship escapes Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (Reuters)

March 23, 2009 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Automotive industry crisis Financial crisis (global) French Caribbean general strikes Icelandic financial crisis International recognition of Kosovo Irish banking crisis Malagasy political crisis North Korean satellite launch Enlargement of NATO Piracy in Somalia Russian financial crisis Treaty of Lisbon ratification World food price crisis Zimbabwean cholera outbreak edit sidebar

Recent deaths
March 28: Janet Jagan 27: Arnold Meri 27: Penor Rinpoche 25: John Hope Franklin 25: Dan Seals 25: Giovanni Parisi 25: Yukio Endo 24: George Kell 22: Jade Goody 20: Mel Brown 20: Abdellatif Filali 18: Eddie Bo 18: Natasha Richardson 16: Nicholas Hughes 16: Nicholas Henderson 15: Ron Silver 15: Jack Lawrence 14: Millard Kaufman 14: Altovise Davis 14: Alain Bashung edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
War in Afghanistan Balochistan conflict Casamance Conflict Fourth Civil War of Chad Second Chechen War Colombian Civil War War in Darfur Iran-PJAK conflict Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Internal conflict in Burma Kivu conflict Insurgency in the Maghreb Mexican Drug War Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Naxalite-Maoist insurgency Conflict in the Niger Delta Insurgency in Ogaden Insurgency in the Philippines The Secret War Somali Civil War Sri Lankan Civil War War on Terrorism South Thailand insurgency Second Tuareg Rebellion Turkey–PKK conflict Second Ugandan Civil War edit sidebar

Elections
March 3: Micronesia, Parliament 8: North Korea, Parliament 12: Antigua and Barbuda, Parliament 15: El Salvador, President 18: Azerbaijan, constitutional referendum 21: Slovakia, President 22: Macedonia, President (first round) 22: Comoros, constitutional referendum Upcoming 29: Somaliland, President 29: Montenegro, Parliament 29: Mayotte, status referendum edit sidebar

Trials
Upcoming Canada: Larry O'Brien Netherlands: ICTY Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan United States: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá United States: Viktor Bout United States: Noshir Gowadia United States: William J. Jefferson United States: James Charles Kopp United States: Bernard Madoff United States: Ehren Watada United States: Sheila Dixon United States: Joseph Bruno Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Iraq: Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC) Netherlands: Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) New Zealand: David Bain (retrial) Peru: Alberto Fujimori Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Sweden: The Pirate Bay Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: Jena Six United States: Phil Spectoredit sidebar

Upcoming holidays and observances
March February 25 - April 11: Lent (Western Christianity) 2 – April 18: Great Lent (Eastern Christianity) 28: Earth Hour 28: International Dadaism Month (Dada) 28: Ragnar Lodbrok Day (Germanic Neopaganism) 28: Teachers' Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia) 28: British Evacuation Day (Libya) 28: Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet) 29: Passion Sunday (Western Christianity) 29: Boganda Day (Central African Republic) 29: Day of the Young Combatant (Chile) 29: Swedish Colonial Day (Delaware) 29: Martyrs' Day (Madagascar) 29: Embrace of Islam Day (Maldives) 29: Youth Day (Republic of China) 30: Seward's Day (Alaska) 30: Santiago de los Caballeros Day (Dominican Republic) 30: Sultan's Anniversary (Kelantan) 30: Land Day (Palestine) 30: Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day (Trinidad and Tobago) 30: National Doctors' Day (United States) 31: Pohnpei Culture Day (Federated States of Micronesia) 31: Freedom Day (Malta) 31: Thomas Mundy Peterson Day (New Jersey) 31: César Chávez Day (United States) 31: Transfer Day (US Virgin Islands) edit sidebar

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