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Syrian rebels capture ar-Raqqah, making it the first major city to come under rebel control during the Syrian civil war. A newly discovered Y-chromosome haplogroup is thought to push back the time of Y-chromosomal Adam to 338,000 years ago. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez (pictured) dies at the age of 58. A standoff in Lahad Datu between the Malaysian Armed Forces and a group claiming to represent the Sultanate of Sulu escalates into a military conflict in eastern Sabah. Al-Qaeda confirms that one of its commanders, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, was killed in the Northern Mali conflict.

Current events of March 11, 2013 (2013-03-11) (Monday) Armed conflicts and attacks War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Two US and three Afghan soldiers are killed in Wardak Province in the latest insider attack against coalition forces. In a separate incident, two Afghan civilians are shot dead by American soldiers after failing to stop at a checkpoint near Kabul. (Al Jazeera) Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)/Syrian civil war: The insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq claims responsibility for ambushing a convoy of Syrian Army soldiers on March 4. (Al Jazeera) Business and economy The European Union bans the sale of cosmetics developed through animal testing. (BBC) Italian stocks lose value after Fitch Ratings downgrades the country's creditworthiness. (Wall Street Journal) Disasters and accidents Three minor earthquakes strike Southern California, United States. (Fox News) More than 2,800 dead pigs are found rotting in a river that supplies Shanghai, China with drinking water. (Christian Science Monitor) Health and environment Five species of shark and two species of manta ray receive international protection as part of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. (Environmental News Service) A new study suggests that regular aspirin use may reduce the risk of melanoma in women. (Counsel & Heal) A study of mummies concludes that heart disease was common among ancient people. (ABC News) International relations North Korea breaks the 1953 armistice with South Korea and cuts the phone line between the two countries. North Korean officials say that the army is ready to attack at any given order. (BBC) Law and crime Ram Singh, one of the six alleged rapists in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case, is found dead in Tihar Jail. (BBC) Former Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick is convicted on corruption charges. (The Guardian) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused the state of Illinois of securities fraud by misleading investors about the health of the states public pension fund. (New York Times) A New York state judge has invalidated a New York City ban on the sale of soft drinks larger than 16 ounces that was set to take effect on March 12. The office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has indicated it will appeal. (CNN) Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce are each jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice. (BBC). Politics and elections Interim President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro files papers to stand in the Presidential election on April 14 with Henrique Capriles Radonski standing as an opposition candidate. (CNN) Hungary's parliament passes a series of constitutional changes to counteract previous court rulings. Critics claim the move undermines the rule of law. (BBC) March 11, 2013 Wikinews articles Car crash kills six in Warren, Ohio Current events of March 10, 2013 (2013-03-10) (Sunday) Armed conflicts and attacks War in Afghanistan: President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai alleges that the U.S. armed forces are collaborating in some way with the Afghan Taliban in an effort to ensure that some troops remain after the scheduled 2014 pullout. (AP via MSN News) 2013 in Pakistan: Hundreds of Christian protestors clash with police across Pakistan after the burning of Christian houses in Lahore. (AP via Houston Chronicle) Nigerian Sharia conflict: Nigerian militants belonging to Ansar al-Muslimeen claim responsibility to kidnapping and killing Italian, Greek, and British construction workers in Northern Nigeria. (CNN) Arts and culture Daylight saving time goes into effect across the United States (except Arizona and Hawaii) and Canada (except Saskatchewan). (CNN) (CBC) A 2013 American fantasy adventure film Oz the Great and Powerful brings in an estimated $80.3 million in the United States during its opening weekend. (E!) Disasters and accidents Six teenagers are killed and two other people are injured in a car accident near Warren, Ohio, United States. (CNN) Law and crime The head of Sierra Leone's Anti-corruption Commission says that 29 government health officials will appear in court on corruption charges for having allegedly defrauded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's vaccine programme. (SAPA via News24) The Mexican Navy frees 104 Central American kidnapped migrants from a house in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. (AP via USA Today) Politics and elections The Burmese National League for Democracy reelects Aung San Suu Kyi as its leader. (CNN) Residents of the Falkland Islands begin voting in a two day sovereignty referendum on whether the islands should remain a British overseas territory. (BBC) Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela is released from the hospital after "successful" medical tests. (AP via Miami Herald) Sport Titleholders Chelsea comes from two goals down to draw 2–2 with Manchester United and earns a replay of their 2012–13 FA Cup quarter-final. (BBC) (ESPN) France's Sébastien Ogier at the wheel of his Volkswagen Polo R WRC wins 2013 Rally México, the third stage of the 2013 WRC season. (WRC) (Autosport) March 10, 2013 Wikinews articles Dust storm covers Tokyo: in pictures Current events of March 9, 2013 (2013-03-09) (Saturday) Armed conflict and attacks Syrian civil war: Rebels free 21 United Nations peacekeepers who were held captive for four days. (BBC) (AP via Houston Chronicle) War in Afghanistan: At least 19 people are killed by two suicide bombings in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and in Khost Province, as Chuck Hagel, the United States Secretary of Defense, visits the city. (AP) Nigerian Sharia conflict: Nigerian militant group Ansaru announces that it has killed seven foreigners that were being held hostage. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Telegraph) Disasters and accidents A house fire kills five children and two adults (including a pregnant woman) in the Gray community of Knox County, Kentucky, United States, cause undetermined and under investigation. (NBC) (AP via The Huffington Post) One man is killed and five others are injured after a sailboat breaks up and sinks off of San Clemente, California, United States. (Los Angeles Times) Health and environment Three time "Best Restaurant in the World" winner Noma is accused of giving 63 customers food poisoning. (Counsel & Heal) Law and crime Google will pay a $7 million penalty to settle an investigation into the collection of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive information sent over wireless networks from 2007–2010 in the United States. Google company cars taking street-level photos for its online mapping service also had been vacuuming up personal data transmitted over wireless networks that weren't protected by passwords. (SAPA via News24) An Egyptian court reaffirms the death sentence for 21 football fans for their role in the 2012 Port Said Stadium riot and sentenced two security officers to 15 years in jail for negligence. (The New York Times) Politics and elections Former South African President and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, aged 94, is hospitalized; officials say it is only for a routine checkup. (BBC) (NBC) Results of the 2013 Kenyan presidential election indicate that Uhuru Kenyatta has won a victory in the first round with just over 50% of the vote. His leading opponent Raila Odinga says that he will challenge the results. (BBC) (Euronews) (The Guardian) Voters in the state of Western Australia go to the polls for a state election with the coalition government of Colin Barnett winning a convincing victory. (AAP via SBS) (The Australian) Voters in Malta go to the polls for a general election with polls showing the Labour Party set to win government. (BBC) Science and technology NASA's MRO spacecraft provides images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface. (NASA) (Science) A newly observed near-Earth asteroid 2013 ET with an estimated diameter of about 100 meters comes within 960,000 km from the Earth's surface. (Before It's News) Sport In baseball: At the 2013 World Baseball Classic, a bench-clearing brawl between Canada and Mexico breaks out after Canada bunts with a 9–3 lead in the ninth inning. (Toronto Star) Panamanian pitcher Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees, MLB's all-time saves leader, announces he will retire at the end of the 2013 Major League Baseball season. (MLB) In basketball, Florida Gulf Coast University becomes the first team to officially secure its spot in the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. (AP via ABC News) In biathlon, France's Martin Fourcade wins his eighth 2012–13 Biathlon World Cup event when he wins the 10 km sprint race on the Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex in Sochi, Russia. He also secures the men's overall title. (AP via CBC) (Eurosport) In boxing, 48-year-old Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, to win IBF Light Heavyweight title. (ESPN) (Reuters) March 9, 2013 Wikinews articles Current events of March 8, 2013 (2013-03-08) (Friday) Disasters and accidents Tropical Cyclone Sandra forms in the Coral Sea off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. (The Courier-Mail) Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers is injured in a car accident and rushed to a hospital with minor injuries. (NOS) (Telegraaf) International relations North Korea ends all peace pacts with South Korea and closes the main Panmunjom border crossing inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone. North Korean generals affirm they are aiming their long range missiles at the U.S. mainland in retaliation for the recently approved U.N. sanctions. (BBC) (CNN) Law and crime Former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond is set to be paid about £2m ($3m) in July, a year after he left the bank following its Libor interest rate fixing scandal. (News24) Politics and elections Sinn Féin's Francie Molloy wins the Mid Ulster by-election, holding onto the seat vacated by Martin McGuinness at the end of 2012. (BBC) Following the state funeral of former President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez, Vice President Nicolás Maduro is officially sworn in as Interim President. (BBC) Religion The Vatican announces that the 2013 papal conclave to select a new pope will begin on March 12. (The Washington Post) Science and technology Russian scientists announce they have found a wholly new type of bacteria in the mysterious subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica. (RIA Novosti) (AFP via Discovery News) Sport Shane Flanagan is stood down as coach of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks as the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority continues its investigation of alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs by the club during the 2011 NRL season. (News Limited) March 8, 2013 Wikinews articles Wikinews interviews British scientist Dr Paul Dolman about proposal to cull deer population Current events of March 7, 2013 (2013-03-07) (Thursday) Armed conflicts and attacks 2013 Lahad Datu standoff: The death toll rises to at least 60 persons in the conflict between the Sultanate of Sulu and Malaysian Armed Forces. (Channel New Asia) (The New York Times) Arts and culture Hilary Mantel is awarded the 2013 David Cohen Prize for literature. (The Guardian) Disasters and accidents Six people are injured and four more could be hospitalized (none are believed critically injured) after a gas explosion at American Steel (part of Amsted Rail Co.), in the Greater St. Louis Metro East suburb of Granite City, Illinois. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) International relations Nuclear program of North Korea: North Korea threatens its enemies with the possibility of a pre-emptive nuclear strike, amplifying its threatening rhetoric. (Fox News) (Reuters) The United Nations Security Council approves unanimously new sanctions against North Korea for its recent nuclear test. (CNN) Law and crime Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is convicted of arranging an illegal wiretap and is sentenced to a year in jail. (BBC) Vicky Pryce, ex-wife of former UK Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne is convicted of perverting the course of justice after accepting speeding penalty points on Huhne's behalf. (BBC) Hilton Botha, the former lead detective in the murder case involving Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, has resigned from the South African Police Service. (SAPA via News24) Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, alleged spokesman for al-Qaeda and said to be the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, is captured in Jordan and faces criminal charges in the United States. (Star Tribune) Politics and elections Denis Napthine is sworn in as the Premier of the Australian state of Victoria replacing Ted Baillieu. (ABC News Australia) In Kenya, Kalonzo Musyoka, the running mate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, claims that votes in the Kenyan presidential election have been doctored. (BBC) In the United States, Senator Rand Paul ends a 13-hour filibuster to block voting on the nomination of John O. Brennan as the Director of the CIA, questioning President Barack Obama and his administration's use of drones, and the stated legal justification for hypothetical lethal use within the United States targeting against noncombatants. Attorney General Eric Holder states that combat drones would not be used to target and kill, without due process, Americans not engaged in combat on American soil. (Fox News) Sport The first legs of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League round of 16 are held across Europe. Gareth Bale helps Tottenham to a 3–0 defeat of Inter Milan. (BBC) (Eurosport) March 7, 2013 Wikinews articles Current events of March 6, 2013 (2013-03-06) (Wednesday) Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian civil war: Battle of Ar-Raqqah: Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, the first major city to be under rebel control in the Syrian civil war. (AP via Fox News) British Foreign Secretary William Hague announces the UK will send armoured vehicles and body armour to opposition forces in Syria to help save lives. (BBC) The Arab League grants the Syrian National Coalition the seat within its organisation formerly occupied by the Syrian Republic. (AP via Fox News) 20 United Nations peacekeepers are detained by around 30 armed fighters in the Golan Heights on the border between Syria and Israel. (Reuters) War in Somalia: The United Nations Security Council partially lifts a decades-old arms embargo on Somalia for one year, allowing the government in Mogadishu to buy weapons to strengthen its security forces to fight al-Qaeda linked Islamists. (Reuters) Business and economy The European Commission fines Microsoft €561 million for failing to provide residents of the European Union with a selection of web browsers as an alternative to Internet Explorer. (BBC) The UK's Office of Fair Trading gives the country's top 50 payday loans companies 12 weeks to change their practices after identifying "widespread irresponsible lending". (BBC) Disaster and accidents 2013 Peru plane crash: All nine people on board an airplane chartered by a small Peruvian mining company die after the plane became ensnared in power lines and crashed to the ground in northern Peru. (Reuters) International relations The South Korean military states that it is prepared to respond if North Korea launches an attack as it threatened yesterday. (Reuters) Law and crime Bob Carr, the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, releases a report into the handling of the case of Ben Zygier who died in Israeli custody in December 2010 and was believed to be a Mossad agent. (AAP via The Australian) The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals holds in favor of Google in a lawsuit based on Wisconsin privacy laws in a decision that will tend to protect the vendors of search engines from those who object to the unwholesome responses they get when entering a vanity search. (Reuters) Politics and elections Ted Baillieu resigns as the Premier of the Australian state of Victoria as his embattled government was pushed close to collapse. (The Australian) Religion Papal conclave, 2013: The Brazilian Conference of Bishops (the largest such conference in the world) officially advises the cardinals of Brazil in the conclave explicitly to ask the mass media to print supportive articles on the Archbishop of São Paulo, Cardinal Odilo Scherer. (Rorate Caeli) Science and technology A newly discovered Y-chromosome haplogroup is thought to push back the time of Y-chromosomal Adam to 338,000 years ago. (New Scientist) Sport Italy's Juventus and France's Paris Saint-Germain reach 2012–13 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals defeating Celtic and Valencia respectively. (CNN) (CBC) (Reuters) Fallout of Manchester United v. Real Madrid: UEFA backs Turkish referee Cüneyt Çakır over his controversial decision to red card Manchester United's Nani in last night's elimination by a 2–1 scoreline (3–2 on aggregate) at the feet of Real Madrid in the second leg of their 2012–13 UEFA Champions League last 16 tie at Old Trafford. (The Guardian) (The Independent) Manchester United assistant manager Mike Phelan says Sir Alex Ferguson is "distraught"; the Scottish manager has not appeared in public since the incident. (Irish Independent) Manchester United player Rio Ferdinand may face a disciplinary procedure after his sarcastic hand-clapping gesture before Cüneyt Çakır at the end of the game. (The Guardian) (The Daily Telegraph) Former Manchester United captain Roy Keane backs Cüneyt Çakır's red carding of Nani. (Irish Independent) Paddy Crerand, who won the competition in 1968, blasts Roy Keane over his position on Nani's controversial red card, describing Keane as being "in a minority of one. Not one person said it was a red card except Roy". (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) March 6, 2013 Wikinews articles Current events of March 5, 2013 (2013-03-05) (Tuesday) Armed conflicts and attacks 2013 Lahad Datu standoff: The Malaysian Army launches an attack on an armed Filipino group on the island of Borneo in an effort to end the standoff. (BBC) Nigerian Sharia conflict: Gunmen kill eight people in an attack on a police station and a bank in northeastern Nigeria. (Reuters) Business and economy Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers his final annual address to the National People's Congress. The People's Republic of China sets its economic growth rate for 2013 at 7.5%. (AFP via SBS World News) The Dow Jones Industrial Average surpasses pre-financial crisis levels, reaching an all-time high, last set in October 2007, after the release of better than expected economic data from the United States and Europe and the Chinese growth target. (AP via New Jersey Herald) (The New York Times) (The Wall Street Journal) International relations Venezuela announces its intention to expel a member of the United States embassy working as a US Air Force military attaché. The U.S. official is accused of spying on the military and meeting with officials to plan destabilizing the country. (AP via The New York Times) The UN Security Council holds a closed-door session to discuss new sanctions against North Korea following reports of an agreement on a draft resolution between the United States and China. North Korea announces plans to nullify the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War. (BBC) (Yonhap News) (NHK World) Law and crime A black American political candidate "was dragged and set on fire" during his murder in the U.S. state of Mississippi, say his family. The corpse of Marco McMillian was found bruised and burned near a levee on the Mississippi River. (The Daily Telegraph) Eddie Maher, who spent almost 20 years as a fugitive in the United States, is jailed for five years for stealing a security van containing £1.2m in Suffolk, England. (BBC) Politics and elections Death of Hugo Chávez: Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, dies at the age of 58 in the capital, Caracas. (Al Jazeera) (RTÉ News) (CBS News) Chávez's death triggers a presidential election to be held within thirty days. (The Guardian) Vice President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency until an election is held. (BBC) Kenyan general election, 2013: Early returns show that Uhuru Kenyatta has taken a lead in the presidential election. (Reuters) (The Guardian) The government of Moldova falls in a confidence vote after the government coalition broke down. (Al Jazeera) UK Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond announces the closure of four Army bases as part of a shake-up to accommodate the return of thousands of British troops stationed in Germany. (BBC) Voters in the American city of Los Angeles, California, go to the polls for a mayoral election with Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel to contest a runoff on 21 May 2013. (Los Angeles Times) Science and technology Japanese carrier Willcom announces the Phone Strap 2 WX06A, which weighs only 32 grams. The company advertises it as the world's "smallest and lightest phone". (The Verge) Scientists in the United States publish the most detailed scans of the human brain to date as part of a project to understand how the organ works. (BBC) Sport Real Madrid defeat Manchester United by a 2–1 scoreline (3–2 on aggregate) in the second leg of their 2012–13 UEFA Champions League last 16 tie. With the Premier League club leading 1–0, Nani's controversial second half sending off provides the game's main turning point, and Cristiano Ronaldo ultimately scores the winning goal on his first return to Old Trafford since leaving in the summer of 2009. (ESPN) (BBC) (The Guardian) March 5, 2013 Wikinews articles Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dies aged 58 Record snowfall in Japan: in pictures Chadian army: Mokhtar Belmokhtar 'killed' in Mali More March 2013 events...

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