Off the northern coast of Somalia, Somali pirates hijack the Aris 13, a United Arab Emirates-owned oil tanker, kidnapping eight Sri Lankan crew members. This is the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel in five years.
U.S. Congress passes a bill that mandates NASA send humans to Mars by 2033.
An attacker carries out a vehicle-ramming attack outside the Houses of Parliament in London, before stabbing a police officer and subsequently being shot by security forces. Including the attacker, there are at least four people dead.
Racing 92 and Stade Français, two French rugby clubs, announce that they are calling off their proposed merger following widespread opposition to the project.
Voters in Wallis and Futuna re-elect nine members and elect eleven new members to the 20-seat Territorial Assembly.
Former Congolese Vice President and warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, sentenced last year by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to 18 years in prison for war crimes, is given an additional 12 months and fined 300,000 euros for bribing witnesses during an earlier ICC trial. The court also handed jail terms and fines for alleged interference in his trial to members of his legal team.
domed football stadium in Paradise, Nevada, USA
A CSX Transportation freight train collides with a charter bus in Biloxi, Mississippi, killing at least four people and leaving dozens injured.
London's Metropolitan Police Service announces that the attacker is British-born Khalid Masood, previously questioned by British authorities for connections to terrorism.
Subsequent riots in Seoul kill at least three people.
At least 16 people are killed by multiple airstrikes on a prison in Idlib, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Authorities detain hundreds of people, including Alexei Navalny, at anti-corruption protests across Russia.
A second explosion occurs in the Rabwah area of Damascus.
Russia and China veto a draft United Nations Security Council resolution sponsored by France, the United Kingdom and the United States calling for sanctions against the Syrian government and President Bashar al-Assad over allegations that the government used chemical weapons in the conflict.
Israel changes its law regarding marijuana use. Instead of facing criminal charges, first-time offenders who smoke marijuana in public places will only receive a fine.
This comes as the United Nations and various non-governmental organizations are warning of potential famine in the country.
Date: 16 March 2004 – present (18 years, 10 months, 1 week and 4 days)
A bus driver in the Haitian city of Gonaïves ploughs into crowds of people celebrating Rara while speeding away from an earlier accident which left one person dead, killing at least 38 people, including a group of street musicians, and injures 17 others.
Juan M. Thompson, a 31-year-old ex-journalist, is arrested and charged with making at least eight threats against Jewish Community Centers in the United States, as well as a threat made against the Anti-Defamation League, while allegedly impersonating a former girlfriend.
agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services
The Senate Judiciary Committee begins hearings on the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States.
United States Department of Transportation
city and capital of the Vitebsk region in northeastern Belarus
U.S. President Donald Trump accuses former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower the month before the 2016 presidential election but offers no evidence to support his claim. A spokesman for President Obama rejects these claims.
A head on crash between a pickup truck and a church bus outside Garner State Park in the American state of Texas kills at least 12 people and injures 3 others.
A Congressional witness states that Russia hired 1,000 people to create anti-Clinton 'fake news' in key U.S. states during the election.
French National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin and afterwards urges that European Union sanctions on Russia be lifted.
bilateral relations between Russia and France
American multinational banking and financial services corporation
Michael T. Flynn is willing to testify under the condition of immunity in the ongoing congressional probe on Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
In association football, FC Barcelona becomes the first team to overturn a first-leg 4–0 deficit in the UEFA Champions League as they knocked out Paris Saint-Germain with a 6–1 victory in the second leg to reach the quarter-finals for the 10th successive season.
A car bomb in Baghdad's southwestern Hayy Al-A'amel neighborhood kills at least 23 people, and wounds 45 others.
The MSU Bulldogs advance to the title game against fellow Southeastern Conference team South Carolina, which defeated Stanford 62–53 in the evening's other semifinal.
Australian region tropical cyclone season
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the total number of people killed and missing in Syria's war is now 465,000.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says Canada will not tighten its border because more migrants, reacting to the United States immigration crackdown, are illegally crossing into Canada from the U.S.
group of complex volcanoes in Tochigi and Fukushima prefecture, Japan
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
Four people are killed in twin bombings in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces' Manbij Military Council, "after reaching a new alliance with Russia," hands over a vast expanse of territory west of Manbij to the Syrian Army to create a buffer zone between the SDF and Turkish-backed rebels.
federal judge, Theodore D. Chuang of Maryland, grants that state's motion for a temporary restraining order on President Trump's revised travel ban.
A Category 4 severe tropical cyclone travels over the Whitsunday Islands and crosses the coast of Queensland, Australia, near the town of Airlie Beach.
Mike Nesbitt announces he is standing down as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) following the party's poor performance in yesterday's Northern Ireland Assembly election.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces she will seek a second referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.
At a NATO meeting, German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel rejects as "quite unrealistic" the belief that Germany would spend 2% of GDP on the military.
A car bomb explodes at a checkpoint near the Villa Somalia, the President of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's official residence in Mogadishu, killing at least five people.
Citing security concerns because of recent terrorist activity, the American and British governments impose a ban affecting inbound-passengers flying from much of the Middle East and North Africa. The ban includes airplane cabin passenger-accessible items such as laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices which are larger than a smartphone. Larger such electronic devices will still be allowed on board in checked baggage which is thus more closely screened and passenger-inaccessible.
collegiate athletics conference operating primarily in the southeastern United States
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises above 21,000 points, reaching an all-time high.
Chief Executive of Hong Kong (born 1957)
sovereign state in northern South America
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology warns that Cyclone Debbie will be the worst storm to hit Queensland since Cyclone Yasi in 2011.
This is the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel in five years.
Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union
The National Football League (NFL) owners approve, by a 31–1 vote, the move of the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the 2019 or 2020 season.
An Antonov An-26 of South Supreme Airlines crashes upon landing at Wau Airport, South Sudan, the 43 people on board survived.
A 45-meter long escalator at Langham Place in Hong Kong malfunctions injuring at least 18 people.
A fire in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, damages 10 buildings.
Dozens of tornadoes spawned by thunderstorms touch down in the American Midwest, damaging or destroying numerous homes and businesses and causing some injuries. The Johnson County Executive Airport in Olathe, Kansas is closed following heavy damage caused by the severe weather.
part of the United Kingdom situated on the island of Ireland
The American city of Fort Collins, Colorado, announces its intention to appeal a federal judge's ruling that blocked the city’s ban on women appearing topless in public.
2016–17 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team
2016–17 season of University of Kentucky men's basketball team
Arab ethnic group who mostly adhere to Islam
Proposed second Scottish independence referendum
The Coordination of Azawad Movements, a coalition of Tuareg groups, announce that they will boycott a peace conference scheduled next week on implementing a 2015 peace agreement saying it was "not sufficiently inclusive".
national baseball team representing Japan
Hohmann transfer orbit used to reach geosynchronous or geostationary orbit
US intelligence agency in charge of satellite intelligence
Ahmad Daqamseh, the Jordanian soldier who shot seven Israeli schoolchildren on March 13, 1997, is released from prison in Jordan.
city and capital of Hrodna region in western Belarus
solid or semisolid remains of the food that passes through the bowel, from any animal
In response to several Israeli airstrikes against suspected Hezbollah-related targets inside Syria, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has threatened wider war with the State of Israel, stating its intention to fire Scud missiles, and specifically target the Israeli city of Haifa.
Authorities find the remains of two missing U.N. investigators—former Swedish politician Zaida Catalán and U.S. national Michael Sharp—in a shallow grave in the province of Kasaï-Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
An Israeli Army tank kills a Palestinian teenager and wounds two others near the Gaza border.
The Security Service of Ukraine bans Yuliya Samoylova, Russia's entrant in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, from entering the country. This follows allegations that she had toured in Crimea following its annexation by Russia.
Around 1,500–2,000 people leave al-Waer district of Homs today for their preferred destination of either Northern Homs Governorate, Idlib Governorate or Turkish Army positions in Northern Aleppo Governorate.
Gilmar Pisas is sworn in as Prime Minister of Curaçao.
South-West Indian Ocean tropical cyclone season
correspondence between a state, nation or sovereign with another
A jury acquits the former head of the now-closed Massachusetts pharmacy, New England Compounding Center, Barry Cadden, on 25 counts of second-degree murder but convicts him of racketeering and other crimes in a meningitis outbreak that was traced to fungus-contaminated drugs and killed 64 people across the country. Cadden disregarded sanitary conditions to boost production and make more money.
airport in Kansas, United States of America
Simone Gbagbo, the former First Lady of Ivory Coast, is acquitted of crimes against humanity. She remains in prison for a previous conviction for undermining state security.
Official results of yesterday's election are released today. An exit poll showed the centre-right GERB winning the most votes.
Exit polls suggest that incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy will win the most seats in the election.
Thousands of people protest in Minsk, Belarus, despite a ban on protests, against a so-called "social parasites" tax on the unemployed.
Salafi jihadist militant Sunni Islamist group
All 141 people on board Peruvian Airlines Flight 112 escape when the aircraft crashes on landing at Francisco Carle Airport, Jauja, Peru.
The destruction from snow fall kills six people and leaves over 100,000 others without electricity, with some areas in the Northeastern United States receiving over 4 feet (1.2 m) of snow.
Thousands of Iraqis flee western Mosul as the battle between Iraqi and allied forces and ISIL militants escalates in the densely populated Old City.
An avalanche on Mount Nasu in Japan's Tochigi Prefecture, kills at least eight schoolchildren while the students were on a mountaineering excursion. There are three students and three teachers missing.
At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), he served as the moderator for Catholic-Jewish relations as well as the Chair for the Bishops’ Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs between 1984 and 1987.
The Social Democratic Party of Germany endorses Martin Schulz as its leader.
17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
international airport serving Paris, France
Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile
At least 21 people are killed after two suicide bombers attack a wedding party near Tikrit.
internal security corps organized along military lines of the Russian Federation
The gigantic limestone natural arch Azure Window on the Maltese island of Gozo collapses due to a storm.
Berber people of the Sahara desert with a nomadic pastoralist lifestyle
American politician and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Wallis and Futuna Territorial Assembly election, 2017
maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces
The National Football League (NFL) owners approve, by a 31–1 vote, the move of the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the 2019 or 2020 season. The Las Vegas Raiders will become the second top-level professional sports franchise in the city, following the National Hockey League's Vegas Golden Knights, which will begin play in October 2017. The move now awaits completion of a new Raiders stadium, until which time the Raiders will continue playing home games in Oakland. Bank of America has issued the Raiders $650 million in credit to purchase land and build the new stadium in Clark County.
The overall top seed is defending national champion Villanova; the remaining #1 seeds are Kansas, North Carolina, and Gonzaga.
The United States Marine Corps' 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrives in Syria ahead of a Syrian Democratic Forces operation to take control of ISIL's de facto capital of Raqqa.
The Hong Kong Election Committee meets to select a new Chief Executive. Carrie Lam becomes the first female Chief Executive.
List of executive actions by Donald Trump
head of government in the Australian state of Western Australia
active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy
The failure of the Trump administration to repeal the act means it will remain law in the United States.
Authorities find a woman's body near the town of Murwillumbah, New South Wales, bringing the number of confirmed storm fatalities to at least two people. There are fears that more people could be missing in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales.
Date: 7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021 (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
CJTFOIR deploys U.S. forces near Manbij to "reassure Coalition" members and to "deter aggression." This comes days after the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces' Manbij Military Council agreed to hand over territory west of Manbij to the Syrian Army to create a buffer zone between the SDF and Turkish-backed rebels.
political unionist party of Northern Ireland
country in Central and Southeastern Europe
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
diplomatic relations between the United States of America and the European Union
The National Assembly of Hungary approves the automatic detention of all asylum seekers who enter the country.
current geological epoch, covering the last 11,700 years
A motorway bridge near Ancona, Italy, collapses killing two Italians and injuring two Romanian workers. The Italian highway agency links the collapse with a temporary structure that was designed to support it.
In December 2016, he received Ukrainian citizenship.
Ministry of Health and Social Protection
person who has both military and civil control and power
South Korean businessman kidnapped by the Philippine National Police
Pope Francis donates 100,000 euros for the poor of Aleppo.
According to a local police chief, at least seven militants are killed by Afghan security forces in Logar Province.
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he thinks the longer term status of president Bashar al-Assad is to be "decided by the Syrian people".
third-party monitoring of electronic communications
Police arrest three individuals in connection with the disaster, charging two with criminal trespass and one with first degree criminal damage.
Intense, Category 4 Cyclone Enawo is intensifying, as it closes in on the northern tip of Madagascar.
The United States defeats Japan 2–1 at Dodger Stadium to advance to the 2017 World Baseball Classic's final. This is the first time that the U.S. has done so in the tournament's 11-year history.
The teenage perpetrators are found carrying offensive weapons, but are not assumed to be terrorists.
capital and most populous city of Finland
2016–17 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
Heavy flooding in Peru kills at least 67 people and forces thousands to abandon their homes.
SpaceX successfully launches the EchoStar 23 satellite, a Direct-to-home television broadcast services for Brazil, into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, using the fully expendable version of their Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
The Iraqi Army retakes Mosul Museum as well as the main government building in Mosul.
A helicopter crashes in Istanbul's Büyükçekmece district, killing at least seven people.
impeachment of the former S. Korean president
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announces that he is developing a plan to close the Rikers Island prison within 10 years.
head of the United States Department of Justice
It is alleged over 800 children died at this orphanage and most were buried in the 1950s.
According to the government of Myanmar, at least 30 people are killed in an attack on various police, military, and government installations by the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army in Laukkai. Four police officers were also taken hostage.
The European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for United States citizens after the U.S.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is released from detention in Cairo.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP)'s only MP, Douglas Carswell, quits the party to become an independent MP.
largest city in California, United States of America
federal judge in Hawaii, finding the revised federal immigration/refugee executive order violates the U.S.
Its notification to the European Council tomorrow will formally begin the UK's withdrawal from the European Union.
political and economic union of 27 European states
South Korea's Constitutional Court upholds the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, removing her from office.
The Indian state of Gujarat passes a law which makes the slaughter of a cow punishable by life imprisonment.
one of Damascus' old city gates with cemeteries on the left and right side of the street
U.S. President Trump signs an executive order undoing former President Obama's climate change policies.
President of the Generalitat of Catalonia
armed conflict involving Pakistan and armed militant groups
A series of shootings in Rothschild, Wisconsin, leave at least four people dead, including a police officer.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, claim responsibility.
The first two places in the Final Four are decided.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama dismisses four cabinet ministers, including Minister of Internal Affairs Saimir Tahiri and Minister of Health Ilir Beqaj, in a bid to make the government more technocratic following opposition Democratic Party protests.
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
standing committee of the United States Senate
Some individuals set the Congress of Paraguay on fire. The attack occurs during a protest against a bill that would let the president seek re-election.
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North releases 127 prisoners from captivity, mostly troops of the Sudanese military.
The replacement plan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is withdrawn after Republican leaders fail to gain enough support. The failure of the Trump administration to repeal the act means it will remain law in the United States.
president of the United States from 2017 to 2021
transcontinental country straddling Western Asia and Southeastern Europe
At least one person is killed and another eight are wounded after a suicide bomber attacks a bus carrying government employees in Kabul.
The U.S. FDA approves Tesaro's ovarian cancer drug, Niraparib.
Two UN officials with MONUSCO—an American and a Swede—are among six people kidnapped near the village of Ngombe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kasaï-Central province.
policies regarding immigration of the Trump administration
Russian Special Envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov denies allegations by NATO Commander Gen.
SpaceX successfully places the SES-10 telecommunications satellite on a geostationary transfer orbit. The event is notable because of the implied economic cost savings of reusing, for the first time, a used Falcon 9 first stage which had previously been recovered. That first stage had previously launched a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station and landed on an autonomous drone ship during the CRS-8 mission.
An investigation by the United States Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration finds that the natural gas leak occurring in Alaska's Cook Inlet began earlier than first reported, and represents significant safety and environmental risks. The agency gives pipeline operator Hilcorp Energy until May 1, 2017 to fix the leak, or shut the pipeline down.
Elections are held in East Timor to vote for the nation's 4th President. Francisco Guterres, runner-up in the 2007 and 2012 elections, is expected to win due to the support of Xanana Gusmão.
The field of 68 teams is announced. The overall top seed is defending national champion Villanova; the remaining #1 seeds are Kansas, North Carolina, and Gonzaga.
According to South Korean and United States officials, a missile test in North Korea ends in failure, with the missile exploding seconds after launch.
2016–17 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team
Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs
Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during the Syrian civil war
The Swedish Academy announces that American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has agreed to accept his Nobel Prize in Literature this weekend at a private location in Stockholm.
Italian racecar driver, engineer and entrepreneur (1898-1988)
2016–17 UConn Huskies women's basketball team
Over the last week, a meningitis outbreak has killed at least 140 people in Nigeria.
ritual, period in a couple's relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage
A roadside bomb kills four Egyptian Army soldiers near the town of Arish, North Sinai Governorate.
An unknown perpetrator using an Apache helicopter fires upon a boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen, killing at least 40 of them, injuring 35 more.
republic of Russia, federal subject of Russia
Russian Special Envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov denies allegations by NATO Commander Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti that Russia was "perhaps" supplying the Taliban.
A shooting in Cincinnati, Ohio, kills one person and injures fourteen others.
A mass grave is discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Tuam, Ireland, containing “significant quantities of human remains”, all of them children.
The Somali pirates that hijacked the Aris 13, a United Arab Emirates-owned oil tanker, release it without condition.
international airport in Selangor, Malaysia
The research describes that foramina sprouted from the trigeminal nerve at the snout and jaws possibly enabling the behavioral functions of exploration, courtship, nesting, foreplay, and parental investment.
institution of the European Union defining the EU's general political direction and priorities and consisting of heads of state or government of the EU's member states
2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
international non-profit organization with HQ in Sweden which publishes secret information, by keeping sources anonymous
People in the breakaway state of Abkhazia go to the polls for an election.
An eruption at Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily injures at least ten people, including several in a BBC News crew.
U.S. President Donald Trump signs a revised version of Executive Order 13769 eliminating Iraq from the order and reducing the indefinite suspension of Syrian refugees to 120 days. The order will be in effect on March 16, 2017.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is acquitted of involvement in the deaths of hundreds of anti-government protesters during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
A bomb targets a mosque in the city of Parachinar near the border with Afghanistan killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens more.
city in and county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee, United States
Russian president Vladimir Putin attends the International Arctic Forum in Arkhangelsk, Russia. He says there that he is ready to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Helsinki, Finland.
Belgacem had earlier shot a police officer with a pellet gun.
The Syrian Army and its allies recapture the ancient city of Palmyra from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
A man drives into a crowd of pedestrians in Antwerp, Belgium, injuring several people.
Carrie Lam becomes the first female Chief Executive.
Eight hundred British Army troops arrive in Estonia as part of NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence to deter Russian aggression in Eastern Europe.
A vehicle mounts the pavement and runs into pedestrians in Islington, London, injuring 4.
In the South Region in Memphis, Tennessee, North Carolina defeats Kentucky 75–73, sending the Tar Heels to their 20th Final Four.
According to the Syrian Army, four Israeli jets entered its airspace and struck targets near Palmyra.
individual act constituting a serious violation of the laws of war
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North
Georgia's visa-free regime, which allows travel to most member states of the European Union, with the exception of Ireland and the United Kingdom, enters into force.
The United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence holds a hearing about Russian interference in the 2016 election and confirms that there is an ongoing investigation into ties between Trump's team and Russia.
attack on the Sardar Daud Khan Military Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan
Up to 15,000 to 20,000 people including armed militants, their families and supporters will leave the besieged district in the coming weeks with the rest of the population reconciling and receiving aid.
sovereign state situated on an island in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
state that is a participant in the treaties of the European Union (EU)
Date: 16 May 2014 – 23 October 2020 (6 years, 5 months and 1 week)
A U.S. federal judge in Hawaii, finding the revised federal immigration/refugee executive order violates the U.S. Constitution's religious establishment clause, grants the state of Hawaii's motion for a nationwide temporary restraining order on these rules that were set to become effective at midnight. President Donald Trump vows to appeal this ruling. Two other federal courts held hearings on similar requests filed by the states of Maryland and Washington; neither of these judges issued a ruling.
Mexico opens legal aide centers in its 50 U.S.
A Ukrainian military Mi-2 transport helicopter crashes after hitting a power line near Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, killing all five people aboard.
Hwang Kyo-ahn assumes powers as Acting President.
The Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical architecture is awarded to Robert Adam in Chicago.
2016–17 Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team
American author, educator, and political activist and strategist
Near the town of Ramle, Israeli archeologists uncover hundreds of gin and whiskey bottles dating back to the First World War at the site of a former British Army barracks.
United States Space Force Base located in Santa Barbara County, California
present phase of the Somali Civil War, concentrated in southern Somalia
2015–16 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team
The United Kingdom formally notifies the European Council of its intention to withdraw from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community.
singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well being of a community or large group of people
2007 East Timorese presidential election
A vehicle mounts the pavement and runs into pedestrians in Islington, London, injuring 4. The teenage perpetrators are found carrying offensive weapons, but are not assumed to be terrorists.
In association football, and as CONMEBOL qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup continues, the Argentina forward Lionel Messi is banned for four matches, five and a half hours before kickoff in his team's match against Bolivia.
South Korea announces it will be raising its US$217,000 cash reward for classified information from North Korea by defectors to $860,000.
former semi-autonomous tribal region in northwestern Pakistan (1947–2018)
In response to a federal appeal, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson (Hawaii), who on March 15 issued a temporary, national restraining order on implementation of the revised federal immigration/refugee rules, upgrades his earlier ruling to a preliminary injunction until Hawaii's lawsuit is resolved.
2016–17 Australian region cyclone season
historical legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland until 1707
Using public funds, Bruno had hired his 15 and 16-year-old daughters as parliamentary assistants while he was serving as a deputy in the French National Assembly.
Dutch authorities withdrew landing permission for a plane carrying Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who was due to speak at a Rotterdam rally in support of a 'Yes' vote in April's constitutional referendum.
A damaged natural gas pipeline operating under Cook Inlet offshore of Nikiski (near Anchorage, Alaska) continues releasing between 6,000–8,800 cubic meters (210,000–310,000 cubic feet) of gas per day.
Mexico opens legal aide centers in its 50 U.S. consulates to defend its citizens' rights amid the United States "crackdown" on illegal immigration. In a video, Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso said Mexico supports following the law but notes that current circumstances highlight the need for immigration reform.
capital city of Mogilev Region in eastern Belarus, on the Dnieper River
type of volunteer emergency organisation in Australia
legislative bill dealing with the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act
Accounts of sightings of animals thought to resemble the extinct thylacine, the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times, prompt a search in the Far North of the Australian state of Queensland.
Constitutional monarchy which governs Japan
At least 11 Central Reserve Police Force troops are killed after their convoy is attacked by suspected Communist Party of India militants in Chhattisgarh.
The Las Vegas Raiders will become the second top-level professional sports franchise in the city, following the National Hockey League's Vegas Golden Knights, which will begin play in October 2017.
A mass grave is discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Tuam, Ireland, containing “significant quantities of human remains”, all of them children. It is alleged over 800 children died at this orphanage and most were buried in the 1950s.
According to provincial officials, at least eight people are killed and another 22 are injured by a roadside bomb in Farah Province. However, according to locals, the attack was actually an airstrike.
taxonomic rank (or a taxon at that rank) between order and genus
Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group
A United States drone strike kills two alleged militants in the Kurram district of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Israel stated that it was targeting suspected weapons shipments to Hezbollah in Lebanon, adding that the Israeli military will keep intervening until they believe such shipments have ceased.
United States District Court for the District of Hawaii
United States federal court of the 9th circuit
extended period when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply
A Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a market in Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen, kills at least 20 civilians and six Houthi militants.
There is not yet agreement on a negotiations roadmap.
Two women, Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Đoàn Thị Hương, are charged with murder in relation to the death of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
The Gambia's justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou states that the country will establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission "within the next six months" to investigate allegations of abuse dating from the time of former President Yahya Jammeh.
Date: 13 January – 2 March 2017 (1 month, 2 weeks and 3 days)
After eight years in power, the Liberal Party is defeated by the Labor Party in a landslide election. Mark McGowan is set to become the Australian state's new Premier.
A large tree falls into a pool at the base of the Kintampo waterfalls in Ghana, killing at least 18 people and injuring 22 others.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks.
A Belgian Court in Brussels declares that Delphine Boël’s case against former king Albert II of Belgium is inadmissible even though genetic testing has proved that her legal father Jacques Boël is not her biological father.
The Big Maple Leaf, a solid gold 1 million dollar Canadian coin weighing 100 kilograms (220 lb), is stolen from the Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany.
The Israeli Air Force resumes bombing against suspected Hezbollah-related targets in Syria, with a fourth round of bombings occurring near military sites near Damascus.
central government of England, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016–17 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
commercial skyscraper complex and shopping mall in Hong Kong
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the total number of refugees from Syria reaches over five million.
market value of goods and services produced within a country
Date: 24 August 2016 – 29 March 2017 (7 months and 5 days)
According to the Japanese Government, three of them came down in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.
Malaysia expels Kang Chol, North Korea's ambassador, after he criticised the former's investigation into the death of Kim Jong-nam.
At least nine people are killed in fires overnight in Cape Town, South Africa.
Authorities arrest at least eight people in connection with yesterday's attack.
At least 110 people have died of starvation in the drought-hit region of Bay, Somalia, in the past 48 hours, according to Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre. This comes as the United Nations and various non-governmental organizations are warning of potential famine in the country.
Including the attacker, there are at least four people dead.
Tasnim News Agency reports that, in a Nowruz speech, Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei said experts in his country can enrich uranium to 99 percent.
sport that is practiced between two teams of eleven players
Scientists announce the finding of microfossils up to almost 4.3 billion years old, within rocks from the Hudson Bay shoreline in northern Quebec, Canada, that may represent the oldest-known evidence of life on Earth.
An attacker carries out a vehicle-ramming attack outside the Houses of Parliament in London, before stabbing a police officer and subsequently being shot by security forces.
most populous city in the United States of America
death by suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
South American section of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
The U.S. House postpones the vote due to a lack of support and slow progress in dealmaking.
village in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States
baseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
female reproductive organ cancer that is located in the ovary
Six Chechen soldiers, along with six militants, are killed in a nighttime attack on a Russian National Guard base in Chechnya.
conflict between NATO Western forces and the Taliban
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
62nd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA
Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries
head of state and of government of Turkey
At a NATO meeting, German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel rejects as "quite unrealistic" the belief that Germany would spend 2% of GDP on the military. He says other spending such as development aid should be taken into account.
national intelligence and law enforcement agency of Ukraine
grave containing multiple number of human corpses, usually buried anonymously
Gunmen raid a Pakistani military post near the border with Afghanistan, killing at least eight people. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, claim responsibility.
In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA announces that it will fully disarm by April 8, 2017.
Cardinal William Henry Keeler, who was Archbishop of Baltimore from 1989 to 2007, dies at the age of 86.
Congolese officials have not identified the kidnappers nor has any group claimed responsibility.
The night parrot is confirmed sighted (and photographed) in Western Australia for first time in nearly 100 years.
The death toll at the fire at an orphanage in San José Pinula, Guatemala, rises to at least 35 children.
Authorities arrest Impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye on charges of bribery, abuse of authority, coercion, and leaking government secrets.
President Donald Trump accuses former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower the month before the 2016 presidential election but offers no evidence to support his claim.
An overcrowded bus veers off a mountain road in Jajarkot District, Nepal, killing at least 24 people.
A shooting at a school in Grasse, France, injures at least eight people. Authorities arrest a 17-year-old student.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says the Netherlands are "Nazi remnants and fascists", after the plane was turned back.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says Canada will not tighten its border because more migrants, reacting to the United States immigration crackdown, are illegally crossing into Canada from the U.S. Goodale added the issue had not risen to a scale that required hindering the flow of goods and people moving across the world's longest undefended border.
cyclone season in the South-West Indian Ocean
The Syrian Army shoots down an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Skylark drone over Syria's Quneitra Governorate.
1969 transport aircraft family by Antonov
information office documenting human rights abuses in the Syrian Civil War
On Friday night a man begins to shoot in a Lille Metro station in Lille, France.
simplest organic molecule with one carbon atom and four hydrogen
The United States House of Representatives approaches a vote on a replacement plan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare).
type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash
List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
In a ruling, Venezuela's Supreme Court says it "guarantees congressional functions will be exercised by" itself, authorizing president Nicolás Maduro to create oil joint ventures without the previously mandated congressional approval. Opposition leaders call it a "coup", while Peru recalls its ambassador.
land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces
Pakalitha Mosisili, the Prime Minister of Lesotho loses a confidence motion in the Parliament of Lesotho, and may call a snap election.
The Syrian Army captures at least 23 villages in North East Aleppo Governorate from ISIL in a matter of hours after an ISIL withdrawal caused by the SAA capturing Al-Khafsah.
An Irish Coast Guard helicopter crashes off the coast of County Mayo, killing one person and leaving three others missing.
Dozens of tornadoes spawned by thunderstorms touch down in the American Midwest, damaging or destroying numerous homes and businesses and causing some injuries.
emails from John Podesta's personal account published by WikiLeaks
Goodale added the issue had not risen to a scale that required hindering the flow of goods and people moving across the world's longest undefended border.
Suspected Russian warplanes carry out airstrikes on the city of Idlib at dawn, killing 21 people including at least 14 children.
A letter bomb explodes at the office of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Paris, injuring one person.
Multiple suicide blasts occur at a refugee camp near Maiduguri, Nigeria, leaving eight people dead and wounding 18 others.
The Italian highway agency links the collapse with a temporary structure that was designed to support it.
head of state and of government of the Republic of Korea
The former Democratic National Committee chair and ex-CNN contributor Donna Brazile admits that she had forwarded some debate questions to Hillary Clinton's campaign during last year's Democratic primary before two debates with Bernie Sanders.
Islamist organization in Afghanistan (founded 1994)
The Israeli Air Force launches several airstrikes on targets inside Syria, and for the first time, publicly claims responsibility. Syrian air defenses responded by launching missiles at the aircraft, and thereupon Israeli Arrow 3 missiles were launched in response to the counter-offensive. Israel stated that it was targeting suspected weapons shipments to Hezbollah in Lebanon, adding that the Israeli military will keep intervening until they believe such shipments have ceased. According to the Syrian Army, four Israeli jets entered its airspace and struck targets near Palmyra.
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf, Germany
Somalia's presential residence and office
annual international rugby union competition
has done so in the tournament's 11-year history.
Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army
ethnic insurgent group in northern Myanmar
capital and largest city of the United Kingdom
2016–17 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team
Interstate Highway in the Southeastern United States
Belgian artist; extramarital daughter of King Albert II of Belgium
More than 25,000 people are evacuated from the city of Mackay, Queensland, ahead of Cyclone Debbie which is expected to make landfall in northern Queensland tomorrow.
4th President of South Africa (2009–2018)
global war originating in Europe, 1914–1918
Syrian Democratic Forces military councils
Military councils for local security and defense
2016–17 South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team
West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem, a part of the State of Israel Capital, in the status of belligerent occupation, supported by international public law and the High Court of Justice of Israel
city and county seat of Larimer County, Colorado, United States
investigators—former Swedish politician Zaida Catalán and U.S.
The Gambia's justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou states that the country will establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission "within the next six months" to investigate allegations of abuse dating from the time of former President Yahya Jammeh. According to Tambadou, public hearings are scheduled to get underway by year's end.
representative of the voters to a parliament
Authorities find the remains of two missing U.N.
Opinion polls predict a close contest between Borissov's centre-right GERB and the Socialist Party.
international prize presented by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians, created in 2003
The government of Sweden submits a bill to the Riksdag to reintroduce conscription this summer in response to new global security challenges.
A series of explosions on a military base near the Ukrainian city of Balakliya forces thousands to be evacuated from their homes.
protests in Russia between March 2017 and October 2018 against Vladimir Putin's policies
5th First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party
A U.S.-led coalition airstrike on a school west of Raqqa, kills at least 33 people.
President of South Africa Jacob Zuma fires finance minister Pravin Gordhan amid a major cabinet reshuffle.
South Korea claims that North Korea has fired several missiles from the Sohae Satellite Launching Station into the Sea of Japan.
An avalanche near the northern Italian town of Courmayeur, kills at least three people and injures another three, while two others are believed missing.
Bulgarians vote to elect a new Prime Minister after the resignation of Boyko Borissov.
modular space station in low Earth orbit
British Prime Minister Theresa May signs a letter invoking Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. Its notification to the European Council tomorrow will formally begin the UK's withdrawal from the European Union.
Imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume
2017 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
Tasnim News Agency reports that, in a Nowruz speech, Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei said experts in his country can enrich uranium to 99 percent. ISNA reports that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is threatening to quit the Iran nuclear deal if the United States blocks Iran's version of the deal's implementation.
Voters in the Netherlands go to the polls for a general election.
British Prime Minister Theresa May announces that her government will trigger article 50, which begins the process of withdrawing from the European Union, on March 29.
European Union leaders gather in Rome to mark 60 years since the Treaty of Rome was signed.
Date: 16 January 2012 – present (11 years, 1 week and 3 days)
A Syrian Air Force MiG-23 fighter jet crashes in Turkey's Hatay Province near the Syria–Turkey border after an engine failure.
The Benghazi Defense Brigades, an ally of the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries, claims to have captured five cities and two oil-production areas from forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar in the east of Libya.
Lutheran college near Milwaukee, Wisconsin
matter capable of extracting energy from the environment for replication
Former candidate Manuel Valls (PS) announces his support for Emmanuel Macron (En Marche!) rather than for his own party's nominee, Benoît Hamon.
Scientific Reports publishes Carthage College research that Daspletosaurus horneri, from the same Tyrannosauridae family as the Tyrannosaurus rex, had a sensitive nose. The research describes that foramina sprouted from the trigeminal nerve at the snout and jaws possibly enabling the behavioral functions of exploration, courtship, nesting, foreplay, and parental investment.
Physicists synthesize space-time crystals for the first time.
2017 South Supreme Airlines Antonov An-26 crash
Salafi jihadist militant faction during the Syrian Civil War
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announces an end to the operation Euphrates Shield, which was part of international military operations against ISIL. He adds: "Any operation following this one will have a different name."
meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, located in London, England
Italian police arrest 34 people of a drug gang who reportedly planned to steal Enzo Ferrari's corpse, and hold it for ransom.
aerial warfare branch of Syria's armed forces
Several people are wounded in clashes outside the Turkish consulate in Brussels.
basketball team representing the University of Oregon
Twin bombings kill at least 40 people, mostly Shia Iraqi pilgrims, and wound over 100 in the Bab al-Saghir area of Damascus.
Authorities shut down the city of Brisbane and South East Queensland as remnants of Cyclone Debbie move south.
An exit poll showed the centre-right GERB winning the most votes.
Spanish politician, President of the Generalitat of Catalonia
Tahrir al-Sham, al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, claims responsibility for yesterday's twin bomb attacks in Damascus which left dozens dead.
poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations
administrative division (oblast) in western Ukraine
2016–17 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team
Mark McGowan is set to become the Australian state's new Premier.
A 2015 report stated that the highway carried nearly a quarter-million vehicles a day.
2016 Republican Party presidential primaries
selection of the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in 2016
city and county seat of Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
city of Belarus, capital of Brest Region
Pipeline operator Hilcorp Energy states that due to sea ice conditions, repairs will not be possible for weeks.
commuter bridge collapse in Atlanta, Georgia
branch of paleontology that studies microfossils
2016 United States presidential election
58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
A Japanese fleet returns home after hunting 333 whales in the Antarctic. The Japanese government states that the purpose was for research.
activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside a spacecraft
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
European association-football tournament
head of the executive branch of New York City's government
During a Senate hearing, United States Senator Marco Rubio states that there have been post-election hack attempts against the U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rubio himself.
Jordan says the country executed 15 people today, including 10 who were convicted on terrorism charges with others related to incidents that go back as far as 2003. Amnesty International protests the executions which were carried out in "secrecy and without transparency." Jordan restored the death sentence by hanging in 2014.
The United States begins deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in South Korea.
A suicide bomber and unidentified gunmen dressed as doctors attack a military hospital in Kabul, killing at least 38 people and wounding dozens more.
Cardinal William Henry Keeler, who was Archbishop of Baltimore from 1989 to 2007, dies at the age of 86. At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), he served as the moderator for Catholic-Jewish relations as well as the Chair for the Bishops’ Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs between 1984 and 1987.
Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act
Since December, flooding in Zimbabwe has killed 246 people and nearly 2,000 more have been left homeless, according to officials.
President Trump signs an executive order undoing former President Obama's climate change policies.
In response to several Israeli airstrikes against suspected Hezbollah-related targets inside Syria, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has threatened wider war with the State of Israel, stating its intention to fire Scud missiles, and specifically target the Israeli city of Haifa. Israel responded by stating that any such actions by the Assad regime, or attacks on its aircraft, will cause Israel to "annihilate" Syrian air defense systems.
lower house of the French Parliament under the Fifth Republic
The deadline for the Government formation in Northern Ireland has expired following the refusal of the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin to enter a power sharing agreement with each other, with both parties blaming each other for the impasse.
The UK-US air travel ban on laptops and other electronic devices in the passenger cabin comes into effect.
An American Atlas V successfully launched an NRO payload from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The launch is the 70th successful Atlas V launch and the 14th successful mission for the NRO.
sovereign state in Southern Europe situated on an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea
Voters in the Netherlands go to the polls for a general election. Exit polls suggest that incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy will win the most seats in the election.
The last two places in the Final Four are decided.
WikiLeaks releases thousands of documents that it claims provides details of surveillance software used by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
At least 16 people were killed and 40 more wounded after two suicide bombers attacked Kabul.
history of the British Army during World War I
compulsory enlistment into national or military service
international professional baseball competition
In the final, the United States defeats Puerto Rico 8–0 to claim its first title in the event. Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marcus Stroman, who threw six hitless innings in the final for Team USA, is named tournament MVP.
England beat Scotland 61–21 at London's Twickenham Stadium to retain the Six Nations Championship title. In doing so, they equal New Zealand's record for consecutive test victories.
SW General, Inc), the U.S. Supreme Court puts new restrictions on presidential powers, limiting a president's authority to staff certain top government posts in a case involving an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board saying that under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, a person cannot serve as the acting head of a federal agency once the president nominates him or her to permanently serve in the role if it is a position that requires U.S. Senate confirmation.
Later, he had threatened a bar and then carjacked another vehicle to the airport.
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions requests the resignations of 46 Barack Obama-era chief federal prosecutors, including United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, who was previously told to stay on by then President-elect Donald Trump in November.
The order will be in effect on March 16, 2017.
An AMBER Alert is issued in Tennessee and Alabama for Elizabeth Thomas, who is believed to have been kidnapped by her former high school teacher Tad Cummins.
2017 World Baseball Classic championship
2017 World Baseball Classic championship round
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, multiple suspected U.S.-led coalition air raids kill at least 23 civilians in the village of al-Matab in northern Syria.
French security forces shoot suspect Ziyed Ben Belgacem dead in Paris' Orly Airport after he put the pellet gun to her head and took away an assault rifle from one of three soldiers from "Sentinelle" operation patrolling the airport. Belgacem had earlier shot a police officer with a pellet gun. Later, he had threatened a bar and then carjacked another vehicle to the airport.
A former Ukrainian soldier assassinates former Russian Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
A former Ukrainian soldier assassinates former Russian Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. In December 2016, he received Ukrainian citizenship. Ilya Ponomarev says Voronenkov was heading to a meeting with him.
Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
one of five prizes established by Alfred Nobel
1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) off Donggeochado, South Jeolla, South Korea
Two women, Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Đoàn Thị Hương, are charged with murder in relation to the death of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The women, who reportedly thought they were involved in a prank TV show, did not enter pleas.
president of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Former President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Artur Mas, is banned from holding public office for two years after organising an unofficial, unconstitutional independence referendum in 2014.
Luisa Ortega Díaz, Venezuela's attorney general, denounces a rupture of the constitutional order. Some protesters hold banners reading: "No To Dictatorship".
An all-points bulletin is issued for Cummins.
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he thinks the longer term status of president Bashar al-Assad is to be "decided by the Syrian people". This appears as a policy shift, since under president Barack Obama’s administration, the United States made the departure of Assad a key policy aim.
A private Twin Squirrel helicopter crashes in the Rhinog mountains of North Wales, killing all five people aboard.
chief prosecutor representing the United States federal government
An unknown perpetrator carries out an airstrike on a mosque in the rebel-held village of al-Jineh near Aleppo, killing at least 42 people.
Women's basketball Mississippi State defeats four-time defending national champion Connecticut 66–64, ending the Huskies' NCAA-record winning streak at 111 games.
The European Commission blocks the third attempt of the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse at a merger, citing the danger of a "de facto monopoly in the crucial area of fixed income instruments".
The United Kingdom formally notifies the European Council of its intention to withdraw from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community. There is not yet agreement on a negotiations roadmap.
A blaze at a fireworks warehouse near Netanya, central Israel, kills two people and injures five others.
2016–17 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team
A suicide bomber and unidentified gunmen dressed as doctors attack a military hospital in Kabul, killing at least 38 people and wounding dozens more. ISIL claims responsibility for the attack.
1979 helicopter family developed by Aerospatiale and currently built by Airbus Helicopters
The U.S. Senate confirms Donald Trump's appointment of his former opponents in the presidential primaries, neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Governor of Texas Rick Perry, as Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and Energy respectively, with the support of all Republicans and some Democrats.
The Hong Kong Election Committee meets to select a new Chief Executive.
city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States
Some individuals set the Congress of Paraguay on fire.
Four suicide bombers kill at least two people and wound 16 others in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
Date: July 1, 2016 – present (6 years, 6 months and 19 days)
capital and largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria
2017 World Baseball Classic begins at the Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul, South Korea, as tournament debutant Israel upsets host nation South Korea 2-1 in extra innings.
music museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States
According to Syrian state media, two suicide bombers attack in Damascus, killing at least 31 people.
Imprisoned former Congolese warlord Germain Katanga is ordered by the International Criminal Court to pay reparations to some of his victims in the first such ruling by the court.
international military operations against ISIL
Europol reports a total of more than 10,000 assault rifles and 400 shelling weapons were seized in northern Spain during an anti-trafficking operation in January.
Two UN officials with MONUSCO—an American and a Swede—are among six people kidnapped near the village of Ngombe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kasaï-Central province. Congolese officials have not identified the kidnappers nor has any group claimed responsibility.
A fire breaks out at an orphanage in San José Pinula, Guatemala after students protesting conditions including alleged sexual and physical abuse set fire to their bedding, killing at least 19 children.
2017 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game
Category 5 South Pacific and Australian region cyclone in 2011
Citing security concerns because of recent terrorist activity, the American and British governments impose a ban affecting inbound-passengers flying from much of the Middle East and North Africa.
2016–17 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team
city in northern Iraq and capital of Nineveh Province
French mathematician Yves Meyer wins the Abel Prize for his work on the mathematical theory of wavelets.
Bruno Le Roux resigns as France's Minister of the Interior amid a jobs scandal involving two of his daughters. Using public funds, Bruno had hired his 15 and 16-year-old daughters as parliamentary assistants while he was serving as a deputy in the French National Assembly.
A second U.S. federal judge, Theodore D. Chuang of Maryland, grants that state's motion for a temporary restraining order on President Trump's revised travel ban.
A landslide at a rubbish dump on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, kills at least 48 people.
An avalanche kills four skiers in Tyrol, Austria.
bilateral relations between the neighboring countries in North America
The state of Hawaii has filed a separate, similar request.
independent agency of the United States Government
postmodern classical architectural movement
In the final, the United States defeats Puerto Rico 8–0 to claim its first title in the event.
Former Congolese Vice President and warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, sentenced last year by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to 18 years in prison for war crimes, is given an additional 12 months and fined 300,000 euros for bribing witnesses during an earlier ICC trial.
Third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada
Cyclone Enawo makes landfall in Madagascar as a powerful Category 4 storm, making it the most powerful storm to strike the African nation in 13 years.
lower house of Federal Assembly of Russia
Joint offensive by Iraqi government forces with allied militias to retake the city of Mosul from ISIL
Lawmakers in the Scottish Parliament vote in favor of holding a second independence referendum for the country within two years.
South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball
men's basketball team of the University of South Carolina
national baseball team representing Israel
Metro public transportation in Lille, France
2017 East Timorese presidential election
principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces
election of the members of the House of Representatives
German and Egyptian archaeologists uncover a humanoid statue with an approximate height of eight metres, believed to be of Ramesses II, at the former site of Heliopolis in northeast Cairo.
A spokesman for President Obama rejects these claims.
Jordan says the country executed 15 people today, including 10 who were convicted on terrorism charges with others related to incidents that go back as far as 2003.
The United States defeats Japan 2–1 at Dodger Stadium to advance to the 2017 World Baseball Classic's final.
multi-purpose arena in Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Westminster London SW1A 0AA United Kingdom
President Donald Trump signs a revised version of Executive Order 13769 eliminating Iraq from the order and reducing the indefinite suspension of Syrian refugees to 120 days.
Proactiva notes the finding of five corpses the Libyan coast; these were floating near two capsized boats which could each hold more than 100 people.
A fire results in the collapse of a bridge on Interstate 85 in Atlanta, Georgia, during rush hour, stranding motorists and resulting in a state of emergency.
Saudi war against Houthis in Yemen launched in 2015
eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il . Nacio en 1971 múrio en 2017. Cheh ! Il était connue pour ça mocheté
intercollegiate men's basketball program representing Gonzaga University
The European Union formally grants Georgian citizens visa-free travel to its member states, with the exception of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
On Friday night a man begins to shoot in a Lille Metro station in Lille, France. Three people are injured, including being shot in the leg and neck. The gunman is not thought to be a terrorist, and is still on the run.
investigates air accidents in the United Kingdom
sovereign state situated on several islands in Southeast Asia
mobile computer with integrated display, circuitry and battery
French security forces shoot suspect Ziyed Ben Belgacem dead in Paris' Orly Airport after he put the pellet gun to her head and took away an assault rifle from one of three soldiers from "Sentinelle" operation patrolling the airport.
Northern Irish voters go to the polls to elect their new MLA representatives after a snap election was called following the resignation of Deputy First minister Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin over the mishandling by Democratic Unionist Party over the recent Renewable Heat Incentive scandal.
United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union
invocation of the EU's withdrawal process for "Brexit"
Some protesters hold banners reading: "No To Dictatorship".
consulates to defend its citizens' rights amid the United States "crackdown" on illegal immigration.
Official results of yesterday's election are released today.
Ilya Ponomarev says Voronenkov was heading to a meeting with him.
association football club in Barcelona, Spain
Taliban insurgents seize control of the strategic town of Sangin in the southern Helmand Province after a year-long battle with Afghan security forces.
The gunman is not thought to be a terrorist, and is still on the run.
President of South Africa Jacob Zuma fires finance minister Pravin Gordhan amid a major cabinet reshuffle. The South African rand plunges.
North Korea's military development for weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, and biological
national intelligence agency of the United States
revised federal immigration/refugee rules
ongoing civil war in the country of Yemen
The Israeli Air Force launches several airstrikes on targets inside Syria, and for the first time, publicly claims responsibility.
Date: 16 April 2009 – 19 December 2017 (8 years, 8 months and 3 days)
2016–17 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team
The Federal Bureau of Investigation becomes involved in the search for Elizabeth Thomas and the manhunt for her suspected kidnapper, Tad Cummins.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility.
President Donald Trump in Helsinki, Finland.
U.S. federal statute also known as Obamacare
In a 6–2 decision (NLRB v. SW General, Inc), the U.S. Supreme Court puts new restrictions on presidential powers, limiting a president's authority to staff certain top government posts in a case involving an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board saying that under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, a person cannot serve as the acting head of a federal agency once the president nominates him or her to permanently serve in the role if it is a position that requires U.S. Senate confirmation. The court upholds a lower court's ruling that then-President Barack Obama exceeded his legal authority with his temporary appointment of an NLRB general counsel in 2011. The ruling will give President Donald Trump and future presidents less flexibility in filling jobs that require Senate confirmation.
borough of New York City, New York, United States
ISIL claims responsibility for the attack.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war
military campaign against Islamist extremist militant groups in Syria by USA, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE
A vehicle filled with explosives detonates near a hotel in Mogadishu, killing at least six people and wounding four others.
city in Ohio, United States; county seat of Hamilton County
In the East Region in New York City, South Carolina defeats Southeastern Conference foe Florida 77–70 for the Gamecocks' first-ever Final Four appearance.
set of emotionally and physically intimate acts between two or more people meant to create sexual arousal and desire for sexual activity
country in Northwestern Europe with territories in the Caribbean
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch determines that a pilot error was the cause of the crash.
The state of Washington, joined by the states of California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Oregon, asks a federal judge to stop, on constitutional grounds, the revised federal immigration/refugee rules from taking effect on Thursday, March 16.
Egyptian president and politician (1928-2020)
The attack occurs during a protest against a bill that would let the president seek re-election.
The death toll at the fire at an orphanage in San José Pinula, Guatemala, rises to at least 38 children.
2017 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act replacement proposals
self-governing Palestinian territory next to Egypt and Israel
President Donald Trump vows to appeal this ruling.
In rugby union, the two Paris-based clubs in France's Top 14, Racing 92 and Stade Français, announce plans to merge effective with the 2017–18 season.
2017 South Sudan Supreme Airlines Antonov An-26 crash
former President and Prime Minister of East Timor
After a temporary suspension due to the kidnapping and killing of a South Korean national, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte orders the Philippine National Police to resume his controversial campaign.
current rise in Earth's average temperature and related large-scale shifts in weather patterns
2017 Jewish Community Center bomb threats
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Chief Federal law enforcement officer in eight New York State counties: New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan
governing body of France's professional rugby union leagues
Founding treaty of the European Union from 1957
The Johnson County Executive Airport in Olathe, Kansas is closed following heavy damage caused by the severe weather.
Amnesty International protests the executions which were carried out in "secrecy and without transparency." Jordan restored the death sentence by hanging in 2014.
2016–17 Mississippi State Bulldogs women's basketball team
Berry was one of the first inductees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir names Vice President Bakri Hassan Saleh as Prime Minister of Sudan, the first person to hold the post since it was abolished following the 1989 Sudanese coup d'état.
The agency gives pipeline operator Hilcorp Energy until May 1, 2017 to fix the leak, or shut the pipeline down.
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)
More than 25,000 people are evacuated from the city of Mackay, Queensland, ahead of Cyclone Debbie which is expected to make landfall in northern Queensland tomorrow. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology warns that Cyclone Debbie will be the worst storm to hit Queensland since Cyclone Yasi in 2011.
A jury acquits the former head of the now-closed Massachusetts pharmacy, New England Compounding Center, Barry Cadden, on 25 counts of second-degree murder but convicts him of racketeering and other crimes in a meningitis outbreak that was traced to fungus-contaminated drugs and killed 64 people across the country.
At least 16 people were killed and 40 more wounded after two suicide bombers attacked Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks.
According to provincial officials, at least eight people are killed and another 22 are injured by a roadside bomb in Farah Province.
Northern Irish broadcaster and politician (born 1957)
Syrian rebels, led by Tahrir al-Sham, launch an offensive in the Hama Governorate, capturing the towns of Suran, Khitab and Al-Majdal.
The state of Washington, joined by the states of California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Oregon, asks a federal judge to stop, on constitutional grounds, the revised federal immigration/refugee rules from taking effect on Thursday, March 16. The state of Hawaii has filed a separate, similar request.
non-governmental organization based in the United Kingdom
JCC (YMHA) North-American community organization for Jews
An investigation by the United States Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration finds that the natural gas leak occurring in Alaska's Cook Inlet began earlier than first reported, and represents significant safety and environmental risks.
Domed baseball stadium located in Gocheok-dong, Seoul, South Korea.
people defecting from North Korea, often to South Korea
former natural limestone arch in the Maltese island of Gozo
A fire results in the collapse of a bridge on Interstate 85 in Atlanta, Georgia, during rush hour, stranding motorists and resulting in a state of emergency. Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed calls the situation a "transportation crisis" that could close the affected stretch of highway for days or weeks. A 2015 report stated that the highway carried nearly a quarter-million vehicles a day.
Beginning in Minsk, spreading through Belarus, including Gomel, Mogilev, Vitebsk, Grodno and Brest.
airstrike by the United States Armed Forces
island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea
International agreement on the nuclear program of Iran
Luisa Ortega Díaz, Venezuela's attorney general, denounces a rupture of the constitutional order.
In the West Region in San Jose, California, Gonzaga defeats Xavier 83–59, advancing to the first Final Four in the program's history.
A shooting at a school in Grasse, France, injures at least eight people.
taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will
city in Alaska, United States of America
Four police officers were also taken hostage.
capital city of the German federated state of North Rhine-Westphalia
island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea
city in Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine
partially reusable orbital launch vehicle by SpaceX
In a video, Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso said Mexico supports following the law but notes that current circumstances highlight the need for immigration reform.
Nicolás Maduro's political oppression on the opposition
United States Executive Order limiting refugees from Muslim-majority countries
head of government of the United Kingdom
New Zealand expels an unnamed United States diplomat after the embassy refused to waive his immunity during a police investigation.
upper house of the United States Congress
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Dutch authorities expelled the Turkish Family minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya from Rotterdam, and escorted her to the German border.
American politician and lawyer (born 1971)
A methane gas explosion occurs at a coal mine in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, killing at least eight miners, with another 20 unaccounted for.
The first two places in the Final Four are decided. In the West Region in San Jose, California, Gonzaga defeats Xavier 83–59, advancing to the first Final Four in the program's history. In the Midwest Region in Kansas City, Missouri, Oregon defeats Kansas 74–60, giving the Ducks their first Final Four appearance since winning the first NCAA Tournament in 1939.
After eight years in power, the Liberal Party is defeated by the Labor Party in a landslide election.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
In a ruling, Venezuela's Supreme Court says it "guarantees congressional functions will be exercised by" itself, authorizing president Nicolás Maduro to create oil joint ventures without the previously mandated congressional approval.
North Korea temporarily bans all Malaysian nationals (estimated to be at least 11 people including embassy employees) from leaving the country amid a growing dispute between the two countries over the death of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un. Malaysian official Khairy Jamaluddin calls the move "tantamount to taking hostages".
There are three students and three teachers missing.
Category 4 Australian region cyclone in 2017
Syrian military operation in January–April 2017
refugees and displaced persons from the ongoing conflict
natural process by which life arises from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds
In doing so, they equal New Zealand's record for consecutive test victories.
Daoud Khan Military Hospital Kabul, Afghanistan
Date: 6 November 2016 – 20 October 2017 (11 months and 2 weeks)
Chuck Berry, pioneering rock music singer and guitarist, dies in the U.S. state of Missouri at the age of 90. Berry was one of the first inductees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
largest municipality in the U.S. state of Missouri
North American professional ice hockey league
municipality in the province of Antwerp, Belgium
national government of the United States
FDA approves Tesaro's ovarian cancer drug, Niraparib.
Date: 17 January 2017 – 5 April 2017 (2 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)
The Day Without a Woman general strike occurs.
city and administrative centre of Gomel region in southeastern Belarus
United States President Donald Trump approves the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
head of the United States Department of State
Constitution's religious establishment clause, grants the state of Hawaii's motion for a nationwide temporary restraining order on these rules that were set to become effective at midnight.
second-most populous Islamic denomination
Date: 8 August 2016 – c. 2019 (c. 3 years)
federal state, capital and largest city of Germany
The South Korean government raises the wreckage of the MV Sewol from the sea near the South Korean island of Donggeochado.
The state legislature of North Carolina repeals the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, more commonly known as the "transgender bathroom bill." In its place, the legislature enacts a ban on cities in North Carolina from enacting "civil rights" protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people through 2020.
A Congressional witness states that Russia hired 1,000 people to create anti-Clinton 'fake news' in key U.S.
Malaysian official Khairy Jamaluddin calls the move "tantamount to taking hostages".
The European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for United States citizens after the U.S. government failed to agree to visa-free travel for citizens of five European Union member states, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania. The resolution is non-binding.
The replacement plan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is withdrawn after Republican leaders fail to gain enough support.
Abdellatif Midras, a member of the Moroccan Parliament, is shot dead in Casablanca.
Israel changes its law regarding marijuana use.
There are fears that more people could be missing in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales.
A motorway bridge near Ancona, Italy, collapses killing two Italians and injuring two Romanian workers.
Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales
Date: April 16, 2014 Time: Around 12:05 a.m. to around 11:54 p.m. (KST)
House postpones the vote due to a lack of support and slow progress in dealmaking.
island country in the southwest Pacific Ocean
annual song competition held among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union
Salafi jihadist organization founded in 1988
Scientific Reports publishes Carthage College research that Daspletosaurus horneri, from the same Tyrannosauridae family as the Tyrannosaurus rex, had a sensitive nose.
England beat Scotland 61–21 at London's Twickenham Stadium to retain the Six Nations Championship title.
state general election for Western Australia, held on 11 March 2017
Date: 22 September 2014 – present (8 years, 4 months and 4 days)
Scales of the intensity of tropical cyclones
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
vote on whether a group of people still has confidence in a government or leader
Date: 5 February 2011 – present (11 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Police arrest the man, who is believed to be North African born and living in France.
top institution of the U.S. Democratic Party
type of baseball for which players receive compensation
Authorities of New South Wales issue a State Emergency Service for the towns of Murwillumbah and Lismore, and at least 12 flood rescues are underway as former Cyclone Debbie moves south from north Queensland.
The ruling will give President Donald Trump and future presidents less flexibility in filling jobs that require Senate confirmation.
Syrian air defenses responded by launching missiles at the aircraft, and thereupon Israeli Arrow 3 missiles were launched in response to the counter-offensive.
Turkey bans the Dutch ambassador, Cornelis Van Rij, from returning to the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ankara, and closes its airspace to Dutch diplomats in response to a Dutch ban on Turkish ministers speaking at pro-Erdoğan rallies.
The ferry sank in April 2014, killing 304 people.
Democratic Republic of the Congo politician
ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria since 2011
The move now awaits completion of a new Raiders stadium, until which time the Raiders will continue playing home games in Oakland.
Two other federal courts held hearings on similar requests filed by the states of Maryland and Washington; neither of these judges issued a ruling.
None of the contaminated product left the facility.
state-sponsored act constituting a serious violation of the laws of war
The court also handed jail terms and fines for alleged interference in his trial to members of his legal team.
The last two places in the Final Four are decided. In the East Region in New York City, South Carolina defeats Southeastern Conference foe Florida 77–70 for the Gamecocks' first-ever Final Four appearance. In the South Region in Memphis, Tennessee, North Carolina defeats Kentucky 75–73, sending the Tar Heels to their 20th Final Four.
constitutional court of the Republic of Korea
railway system in the United States of America
political upheaval in Egypt, leading to ouster of President Hosni Mubarak
A suicide bomber blows himself up at a checkpoint at Shahjalal International Airport, Bangladesh, with no other casualties reported.
in common law jurisdictions, main legal advisor to the government
System of classifying tropical cyclones into five categories based on measured wind speed and used to estimate potential damage
2017 dissolution of Venezuelan National Assembly
United States top collegiate-level basketball tournament for 2017
U.S. federal executive department overseeing highways, railroads, aviation, transit, and other modes of transportation
foldable portable personal computer for mobile use
act passed in the U.S. state of North Carolina in 2016
The women, who reportedly thought they were involved in a prank TV show, did not enter pleas.
aerial warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces
SpaceX successfully places the SES-10 telecommunications satellite on a geostationary transfer orbit.
series of ongoing insurgencies within Myanmar
the 10th and current president of the Federal Republic of Somalia
multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City, located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets
archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States
Maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children run by the Bon Secours Sisters where children were abused
diplomatic relations between North Korea and Malaysia
Hatred towards the Jewish people within the US
form of attack in which a perpetrator rams vehicle into people or structures
Cadden disregarded sanitary conditions to boost production and make more money.
municipality of Jalapa Department, Guatemala
Officials state that repairs will take months following a fire that collapsed a bridge on Interstate 85 in Atlanta, Georgia. Police arrest three individuals in connection with the disaster, charging two with criminal trespass and one with first degree criminal damage.
winning candidate of the U.S. presidential election in the time before inauguration
RadioShack files for chapter 11 protection from creditors for the second time in two years. .
directly elected parliament of the European Union
The signed documents will be published on March 8, and officially enter into force on March 28.
Police investigate the discovery of human excrement in cans of Coca-Cola in a Northern Ireland bottling facility. None of the contaminated product left the facility.
South Korea's Constitutional Court upholds the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, removing her from office. Hwang Kyo-ahn assumes powers as Acting President.
Francisco Guterres, runner-up in the 2007 and 2012 elections, is expected to win due to the support of Xanana Gusmão.
Date: 26 July 2009 – present (13 years, 6 months and 1 day)
northernmost part of the state of Queensland, Australia
United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees
Officials state that repairs will take months following a fire that collapsed a bridge on Interstate 85 in Atlanta, Georgia.
military actions against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
constituent country of the United Kingdom
North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball
sports team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Larger such electronic devices will still be allowed on board in checked baggage which is thus more closely screened and passenger-inaccessible.
An American Atlas V successfully launched an NRO payload from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Instead of facing criminal charges, first-time offenders who smoke marijuana in public places will only receive a fine.
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and 3rd Supreme leader of North Korea
function for integral Fourier-like transform
political-religious armed movement in Yemen
China, Chile and Egypt lift their bans on importing meat from Brazil.
Russian president Vladimir Putin attends the International Arctic Forum in Arkhangelsk, Russia.
A man drives into a crowd of pedestrians in Antwerp, Belgium, injuring several people. Police arrest the man, who is believed to be North African born and living in France.
Israeli authorities shoot into a car that was on a ramming attack at a bus shelter at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank where 13 Palestinians and 3 Israelis have been killed since October 2015. A 16-year-old Palestinian, Fatima Jibrin Taqatqa, had lost control of her car and the teenager now remains in critical condition.
American politician and First Lady of the United States (1993-2001)
2017 executive order by U.S. President Trump placing travel restrictions on several countries
That first stage had previously launched a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station and landed on an autonomous drone ship during the CRS-8 mission.
45th presidential administration and cabinet of the USA (2017-2021)
The event is notable because of the implied economic cost savings of reusing, for the first time, a used Falcon 9 first stage which had previously been recovered.
1938–39 Oregon Webfoots men's basketball team
Off the northern coast of Somalia, Somali pirates hijack the Aris 13, a United Arab Emirates-owned oil tanker, kidnapping eight Sri Lankan crew members.
news division of the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation
United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
annexation of Crimea into the Russian Federation in 2014
British Prime Minister Theresa May signs a letter invoking Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.
diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the United States of America
US Supreme Court justice since 2017 (born 1967)
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet take a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station to prepare the vessel for new arrivals.
Ethnic conflict in the Kasaï region of the DRC
Simone Gbagbo, the former First Lady of Ivory Coast, is acquitted of crimes against humanity.
Around 1,500–2,000 people leave al-Waer district of Homs today for their preferred destination of either Northern Homs Governorate, Idlib Governorate or Turkish Army positions in Northern Aleppo Governorate. Up to 15,000 to 20,000 people including armed militants, their families and supporters will leave the besieged district in the coming weeks with the rest of the population reconciling and receiving aid.
The Security Service of Ukraine bans Yuliya Samoylova, Russia's entrant in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, from entering the country.
festival music that originated in Haïti; music genre
Russian-Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur
forward deployed defense and deterrence posture in Eastern Europe
Chuck Berry, pioneering rock music singer and guitarist, dies in the U.S.
According to Tambadou, public hearings are scheduled to get underway by year's end.
incidents at the Israel–Syria border since 2011
An assailant injures seven people, one severely, in an axe attack at the central railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany. Police have arrested one suspect.
In the Midwest Region in Kansas City, Missouri, Oregon defeats Kansas 74–60, giving the Ducks their first Final Four appearance since winning the first NCAA Tournament in 1939.
The European Union formally grants Georgian citizens visa-free travel to its member states, with the exception of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The signed documents will be published on March 8, and officially enter into force on March 28.
Date: 31 January 2009 – present (13 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
alliance of militias fighting against ISIL and other Islamist extremists in the Syrian Civil War
device that uses chemicals to harm or kill people
Stephen O'Brien, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reports that the world is experiencing its most severe humanitarian crisis since World War II, with over 20 million people suffering from severe lack of food security in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Northeast Nigeria.
He says other spending such as development aid should be taken into account.
Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marcus Stroman, who threw six hitless innings in the final for Team USA, is named tournament MVP.
attack in which the attacker knows they will die
North Korea temporarily bans all Malaysian nationals (estimated to be at least 11 people including embassy employees) from leaving the country amid a growing dispute between the two countries over the death of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un.
Authorities arrest a 17-year-old student.
The ban includes airplane cabin passenger-accessible items such as laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices which are larger than a smartphone.
inflammation of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord
Bruno Le Roux resigns as France's Minister of the Interior amid a jobs scandal involving two of his daughters.
2017 military operation of the Syrian Civil War
social and legal aspects of cannabis use in Israel
2017 Affordable Care Act replacement proposals
Elections are held in East Timor to vote for the nation's 4th President.
Indian reserve force assisting the State/Union Territories in police operations to maintain law and order and counter insurgency
109th mayor of New York City from 2014 to 2022
global international and intergovernmental organization
province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gunmen raid a Pakistani military post near the border with Afghanistan, killing at least eight people.
At least 110 people have died of starvation in the drought-hit region of Bay, Somalia, in the past 48 hours, according to Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre.
conflict initiated by Rodrigo Duterte against drug lords and drug pushers
An assailant injures seven people, one severely, in an axe attack at the central railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany.
U.S. Army general and former U.S. National Security Advisor
The launch is the 70th successful Atlas V launch and the 14th successful mission for the NRO.
The South Korean government raises the wreckage of the MV Sewol from the sea near the South Korean island of Donggeochado. The ferry sank in April 2014, killing 304 people.
sovereign state in North Africa and Asia
conflict, starting 23 February 2011, ignited by Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula
President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017
Russian politician, lawyer and anti-corruption activist
2010s migrant crisis in the European Union
The Japanese government states that the purpose was for research.
dtstart: 2017-03-08 00:00:00 Time: 9:00 am Central Standard Time
However, according to locals, the attack was actually an airstrike.
city and governorate capital of Idlib, Syria
American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1926–2017)
János Áder is re-elected President of Hungary by the National Assembly.
European organisation dedicated to space exploration
international Jewish non-governmental organization
ground force component of the Iraqi Armed Forces
Date: 16 October 2016 – 20 July 2017 (9 months and 4 days)
association football club based in Paris, France
county seat of Santa Clara County, California, United States
An avalanche on Mount Nasu in Japan's Tochigi Prefecture, kills at least eight schoolchildren while the students were on a mountaineering excursion.
United States civil space and aeronautics agency
Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed calls the situation a "transportation crisis" that could close the affected stretch of highway for days or weeks.
ocean-going, barge-derived, floating landing platform
light-duty truck with an enclosed cab and an open cargo area
national Michael Sharp—in a shallow grave in the province of Kasaï-Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Arson that resulted in 41 deaths in San José Pinula, Guatemala
former leader of the Patriotic Resistance Force in Ituri
sudden, drastic flow of snow down a steep slope
skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City
primary national police force in Afghanistan
Public spending scandal in Northern Ireland involving then Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment minister Arlene Foster
Australian government agency responsible for providing meteorology services
Israel responded by stating that any such actions by the Assad regime, or attacks on its aircraft, will cause Israel to "annihilate" Syrian air defense systems.
Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code
Section of the United States Bankruptcy Code
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Diplomatic relations between Canada and the United States
A car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Baghdad kills at least 15 people and injures 40 others.
American politician and activist (born 1941)
a storm characterized by the presence of lightning, usually accompanied by strong winds and often produce heavy rain and sometimes snow, sleet, or hail, but some produce little precipitation or no precipitation at all
Opposition leaders call it a "coup", while Peru recalls its ambassador.
Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2017
municipality of Guatemala Department, Guatemala
Three people are injured, including being shot in the leg and neck.
2012 East Timorese presidential election
presidential election held in East Timor
waterway into the northwestern part of the Gulf of Alaska
financial market where participants can issue new debt or buy and sell debt securities
Bank of America has issued the Raiders $650 million in credit to purchase land and build the new stadium in Clark County.
district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
A Japanese fleet returns home after hunting 333 whales in the Antarctic.
President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
sovereign state in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia
intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states
illegal trafficking or smuggling of contraband weapons or ammunition
head of government of the Republic of Albania
the head of state in East Timor, elected by popular vote for a five-year term
This follows allegations that she had toured in Crimea following its annexation by Russia.
2016–17 Florida Gators men's basketball team
East Timorese presidential election, 2017
parental expenditure (e.g. time, energy, resources) that benefits offspring
terror attack which occurred on 22 March 2017 in Westminster, London, England, UK
Bulgarians vote to elect a new Prime Minister after the resignation of Boyko Borissov. Opinion polls predict a close contest between Borissov's centre-right GERB and the Socialist Party.
county seat of Johnson County, Kansas, United States
Mexican cabinet member responsible for foreign policy
large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada that drains much of north-central North America
city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders
Netherlands' diplomatic mission to Turkey
diplomatic relations between Georgia and European Union
medical testing related to genetic disorders
Capital and the second biggest city in Turkey
capital and the largest city of Afghanistan
Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2017
This appears as a policy shift, since under president Barack Obama’s administration, the United States made the departure of Assad a key policy aim.
region of the Australian state of Queensland
conflict among rival groups seeking to control of the territory of Libya
series of documents released by WikiLeaks in 2017
Police investigate the discovery of human excrement in cans of Coca-Cola in a Northern Ireland bottling facility.
natural gas leak in Alaska, United States
men's national association football team representing Argentina
lower house of the United States Congress
one of the six principal organs of the UN, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security
city and county seat of Alameda County, California, United States
Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician (1950-2017)
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announces an end to the operation Euphrates Shield, which was part of international military operations against ISIL.
psychoactive herb from the Cannabis plant used for medical or recreational purposes
A damaged natural gas pipeline operating under Cook Inlet offshore of Nikiski (near Anchorage, Alaska) continues releasing between 6,000–8,800 cubic meters (210,000–310,000 cubic feet) of gas per day. Pipeline operator Hilcorp Energy states that due to sea ice conditions, repairs will not be possible for weeks.
Authorities find a woman's body near the town of Murwillumbah, New South Wales, bringing the number of confirmed storm fatalities to at least two people.
island sovereign state off the coast of Southeast Africa, in the Indian Ocean
city in and state capital of North Carolina, United States of America
country in southwestern Europe with territories in Africa
U.S. statute about temporary appointments to federal offices
President of the Government of Catalonia
head of government of the Generalitat of Catalonia
ISNA reports that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is threatening to quit the Iran nuclear deal if the United States blocks Iran's version of the deal's implementation.
Curtis Scaparrotti that Russia was "perhaps" supplying the Taliban.
A 16-year-old Palestinian, Fatima Jibrin Taqatqa, had lost control of her car and the teenager now remains in critical condition.
Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Turkish politician; 27th Prime Minister of Turkey
200 Whitton Road, Twickenham, Middlesex TW2 7BA
city and county seat of Clark County, Nevada, United States
type of international match in rugby union
northern part of Spree Island in the Spree river in central Berlin
chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands
landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia
2017 Congolese police decapitation attacks
most common type of large domesticated ungulate
South Africa's head of state and head of government
withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Date: 16 September 2014 – present (8 years, 2 months, 1 week and 6 days)
Date: 16 September 2014 – present (8 years, 4 months, 1 week and 4 days)
presumably extinct species of carnivorous marsupial last known in Tasmania, Australia
condition related to the supply and availability of food, and individuals' access to it
government failed to agree to visa-free travel for citizens of five European Union member states, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania.
widespread scarcity of food followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality
capital and most populous city of France
armed conflicts that started from January 2012
She remains in prison for a previous conviction for undermining state security.
According to the government of Myanmar, at least 30 people are killed in an attack on various police, military, and government installations by the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army in Laukkai.
American lawyer and former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
quantum system whose ground state is one in which the particles are in repetitive motion
census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
The court upholds a lower court's ruling that then-President Barack Obama exceeded his legal authority with his temporary appointment of an NLRB general counsel in 2011.
Date: 30 December 2013 – 9 December 2017 (3 years, 11 months, 1 week and 2 days)
He says there that he is ready to meet U.S.
bicameral legislature of the United States
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
national baseball team representing the United States
Israeli authorities shoot into a car that was on a ramming attack at a bus shelter at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank where 13 Palestinians and 3 Israelis have been killed since October 2015.
former armed Basque terrorist group (1959–2018)
minister in the Federal Republic of Germany
forces near Manbij to "reassure Coalition" members and to "deter aggression." This comes days after the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces' Manbij Military Council agreed to hand over territory west of Manbij to the Syrian Army to create a buffer zone between the SDF and Turkish-backed rebels.