Dilek Öcalan,
MP for the pro-
KurdishHDP party, is sentenced to two and a half years in jail on charges of terror propaganda related to her participation in the 2016 funeral of a
PKK fighter. Nine HDP MPs are currently in jail.
(NRT)
The United States permanently downgrades their
embassy in Havana, making its status 'unaccompanied', meaning a post at which no family members are permitted to reside. The status change comes after
alleged health attacks.
(Miami Herald)
Postal ballots of the 2018 SPD coalition party member vote are due. The vote will determine if the SPD is allowed to form a
coalition with
Angela Merkel's
CDU.
(Reuters)
On the day of the funeral of slain journalist Ján Kuciak, for lack of evidence, police release seven
Italian nationals who are accused of links with the
'Ndranghetamafia in a posthumously published investigative report by Kuciak.
(Daily Star)
Advertisers remove their ads from
InfoWars founder
Alex Jones'
YouTube channels. Many of the brands say they were not aware their adverts were being shown on the channel until being contacted by
CNN.
(The Independent)(CNN)
South African officials determine that the country's ongoing
listeriosis outbreak—which is already the world's deadliest listeriosis outbreak, killing over 180 people and sickening 1,000 more—was caused by
contaminated "
Polony"
processed meat. The
Ministry of Health issues a recall of contaminated products from
RCL Foods and from
Tiger Brands subsidiary company Enterprise Food and advises the public to avoid all processed meat products that are sold as ready-to-eat.
(Reuters)
NIWA declares that the previous summer, which had an average temperature of 18.8 °C (65.8 °F), was the hottest in
New Zealand history.
(The New Zealand Herald)
A
UNICEF report says that 20% of girls under 18 are married, compared to 25% ten years ago, with an estimated 25 million marriages having been prevented in the past decade.
(BBC)(Voice of America)
Former
Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) spy
Sergei Skripal and his daughter are taken to a hospital in critical condition after being exposed to an unknown substance in
Wiltshire,
United Kingdom. Skripal was granted refugee status in the UK following a "spy swap" deal between the UK and
Russia in 2010.
(BBC)
China's
"two sessions" - the annual meetings of the national legislature and the top political advisory body - opens in
Beijing; major announcements include an 8% rise in its
military budget and a
GDP growth target of around 6.5%.
(BBC 1),
(BBC 2),
(Reuters)
Facebook apologizes after including a question in a user survey on the acceptability of soliciting sexual pictures from minors on its platform.
(The Verge)
The
UN Refugee Agency reports that more than 900,000 people have been displaced by the ongoing fighting in the central provinces of
DR Congo between militias and government
forces since 2016.
(UNHCR)
Two connected stabbings occurred in
Vienna,
Austria: three people were seriously injured outside a
Japanese restaurant, and one man in a later stabbing. The perpetrator was arrested.
(The Independent)
Australia and
East Timor sign a
treaty for a permanent maritime border in the
Timor Sea, ending a decade-long dispute over rights to the sea's rich oil and gas reserves.
(BBC)
Former
United StatesDepartment of Justice attorney Jeffrey Wertkin is sentenced to 2½ years in prison for what prosecutors called the DoJ's "most serious" example of
public corruption, which involved stealing more than 40
whistleblower fraud cases in 2016 with intentions to sell the secret information to companies under federal investigation.
(The Washington Post)
Florida's
House of Representatives votes 67–50 to approve a gun and school safety bill that would raise the age to buy firearms from 18 to 21, sending the bill to
GovernorRick Scott to sign into law. The measure also prohibits
bump stocks, and creates a program for the arming of some teachers.
(NBC News)
Citing national security reasons,
U.S. President Donald Trump imposes
tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum imported from most countries.
Canada and
Mexico are provisionally exempt pending
NAFTA renegotiations. The tariffs will take effect on March 23.
(CBS News)
White House Press Secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that the White House needs to see "concrete and verifiable steps" toward the denuclearization of North Korea before meeting with
Kim Jong-un.
(Business Insider)
Congolese PresidentJoseph Kabila signs a law that increases taxes on mining and government royalties on international mining companies working in
DR Congo, including on the mining of
cobalt, despite the opposition from foreign companies.
(BBC)
Outgoing
Chilean PresidentMichelle Bachelet signs a new law which creates nine marine reserves. The new legislation will increase the area of sea under state protection from 4.3% to 42.4%.
(BBC)
An Austrian soldier was stabbed and injured in front of the Iranian embassy in Vienna. The attacker, which had Islamist sympathies according to the authorities, was shot dead.
(Reuters)
Police in
Austin, Texas announce that three package bombs in recent days that have killed two people and injured one more appear to be connected. The packages were left off at three separate locations and were not placed there by any delivery service, police say.
(CNN)
Republicans on the
House Intelligence Committee announce the end of their
Russia investigation, against the objections of
Democratic members. According to the investigation's preliminary findings, the
2016 Trump campaign did not collude with the Russian government, and, contrary to the U.S. intelligence community's previous conclusions, Russia did not have a preference for
Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.
(NBC News)
Toys "R" Us announce that they will close down all of their stores in the
United Kingdom after rescue talks fail, resulting in the loss of about 3,000 jobs.
(The Guardian)
Shortly after the announcement of the closure of
Toys "R" Us stores in the UK, the company announced that they will close down all 800 stores in the
United States, resulting in the loss of about 33,000 jobs.
(The Washington Post)
Ford issues a recall of 1.4 million vehicles, including some models of the
Ford Fusion and the
Lincoln MKZ, citing an issue where the steering wheel could come loose.
(CNN)
AustralianHome Affairs MinisterPeter Dutton says white
South African farmers could receive fast-track
visas on "humanitarian grounds" amid calls to transfer land ownership from white to black farmers, and fears over the number of racially-motivated farm killings.
(BBC)
After an 18-month Sunday Mirror investigation,
Theresa May has called for an inquiry "as quickly as possible" on reported Asian
grooming gangs in
Telford whereby up to 1,000 girls were lured from their families to be drugged, beaten, raped and even murdered.
(The Mirror)
An under-construction
pedestrian bridge over the eight-lane
Tamiami Trail at
Florida International University in
Miami collapses killing at least six people and flattening eight cars. Nine people are rescued from the rubble and taken to nearby Kendall Regional Medical Center. Two require immediate surgery; the others injured sustain non-life-threatening wounds.
(The Washington Post)
The government of
Myanmar agrees to
repatriate 374
Rohingya refugees from a list of 8,000 submitted by the government of
Bangladesh. Myanmar's authorities blamed their Bangladeshi counterparts for the slow process, citing "incomplete" information for many of the refugees on the list.
(The Guardian)
Another lawsuit is filed against the
Catholic Church in Guam, bringing the total lawsuits alleging historical sexual abuse to 157.
Louis Brouillard, who is now 96, was on Guam from 1948 to 1981, and is accused of abusing boys in 100 of the lawsuits the church is facing.
(RNZ)
For the first time in the history of the Division I men's tournament, a #16 seed defeats a #1 seed, as
UMBC shocks top overall seed
Virginia74–54.
(AP via ESPN)
A woman in
Tempe, Arizona, dies after being hit by a
self-driving car operated by
Uber, in what appears to be the
first death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on public roads. In response to the fatal accident, Uber suspends self-driving car tests in all U.S. cities as well as Toronto.
(The Guardian)(BBC)
In
Austin, Texas, a fourth bomb detonates, injuring two men. The
Austin Police Department believes it is connected to the other parcel bombings, but do not believe it to be connected to the bomb threat leveled at the
SXSW festival.
(BBC)(NPR)
The seven adults of the "Turpin children" are reported to have been released from the
Corona Regional Medical Center in
California and placed into an undisclosed residential home to lead normal lives.
(ABC)
Indian external affairs minister
Sushma Swaraj tells Parliament DNA testing on remains in a mass grave in
Iraq confirms 39 Indian nationals believed to have been kidnapped by
ISIL have been killed.
(The Guardian)
After a series of allegations of sexual misconduct against co-founder
Harvey Weinstein,
The Weinstein Company files for
chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company also states that it will release all employees from a non-disclosure agreement which could prevent them from coming forward regarding the alleged misconduct of Weinstein.
(CNN)
The
World Health Organisation says a
listeria outbreak spread via infected food responsible for 200 deaths in South Africa may have spread to
Namibia. The organisation reaches out to 16 African nations it assesses as at risk.
(CBC)
Delegations from
North Korea, South Korea, and the United States meet in the outskirts of
Helsinki, Finland.
(Reuters)
North Korean state media
KCNA claims that, as a result of its nuclear weapons program, there has been "dramatic atmosphere for reconciliation" with South Korea, and "a sign of change" from the United States.
(SBS news)
South Korea and the United States announce that the
Foal Eagle and
Key Resolve military drills will start on April 1 and last for four weeks.
(ABC News)
The
Court of Session allows an appeal by a cross-party group of Scottish politicians seeking court permission for a referral to the
European Court of Justice. The group wish for a ruling that the UK can abandon Brexit without permission from the
European Union's other member states. A lower court will examine the claim.
(The Guardian)
A bomb detonates overnight at a
FedEx facility in
San Antonio, Texas, United States. The
FBI believes the bombing is linked to the other bombings in the area. The
ATF reports that there were no serious injuries. Both the bomb's point of origin and intended destination were in
Austin.
(CNN)(NPR)
Minneapolis Police formally charge Mohamed Noor with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the shooting death of Justine Damond.
(Star Tribune)
The
United Nations issues a report calling for an end to the nation's state of emergency, claiming it has been used to violate
human rights. Turkey responds, calling the report "biased" and "unacceptable".
(al-Jazeera)
The
European Court of Human Rights says that Turkish authorities violated the rights of journalists Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay when they were arrested in the aftermath of a failed coup. The court ruled the men, one of whom is now serving life, were innocent and their rights to
freedom of expression and to liberty had been violated.
(Euronews)
Analysis of ancient ice cores extracted from
Greenland dates an eruption on
Eldgjá volcano in
Iceland. Iceland's largest eruption in the last 2,000 years was described in ancient poem
Völuspá.
(Infosurhoy)
A study commissioned by the UK government concludes marine plastic debris may treble within ten years, and predicts the "ocean economy" will double to US$3 trillion (
£2 trillion) by 2030.
(BBC)
Boko Haram releases most of the 110
Nigerian schoolgirls it had kidnapped in February 2018, and warns against sending them back to school.
(The Globe and Mail)
A fire breaks out in the upper floors of a hotel and apartment block building in
Ballymun,
Ireland, near
Dublin Airport. The fire affects the top seven floors of the building and two floors of apartments, without casualties.
(RTE)(The Irish Times)
Austrian foreign minister
Karin Kneissl recalls diplomat Jürgen-Michael Kleppich from
Israel after he is photographed wearing a t-shirt with slogans linked to
Nazism.
(The Local)
The
Singaporean Parliament approves the Public Order and Safety (Special Powers) Act, which makes it a crime to take pictures and relay information during terror attacks.
(Channel News Asia)
Mark Anthony Conditt, the main suspect in the serial bombings, dies after detonating a bomb in his vehicle while being pursued by
Austin police officers. The police chief warns residents that while they believe the bomber is deceased, he may have sent more packages before his death.
(CNN)
The Independent claims the
Metropolitan Police misidentified material in convicted bomber Ahmad Hassan's possession as not related to
ISIS when in fact it was produced by the group. The newspaper says it has submitted evidence to the
Central Criminal Court that could affect Hassan's sentence.
(The Independent)
Jordi Turull i Negre, ex-member of the dismissed regional government, who was imprisoned amid sedition and under investigation due to his connection in a corruption scandal involving
CiU, is named candidate by the
President of Catalan Parliament in an investiture for Thursday, March 22.
(El Mundo)
Fifteen new
exoplanets are discovered. Three of them, larger than
Earth, are also discovered around the dwarf star K2-155. Furthermore, a 3D climate simulation was created to find out if
K2-155d has water.
(Health Thoroughfare)(ScienceDaily)
A car bomb blast in
Mogadishu, near the Weheliye hotel in the
Somali capital, kills at least 14 people and injures 10 others.
Al-Shabab claims responsibility for the blast.
(AP via MSN)
Qatar's Interior Ministry releases a list of individuals and entities it says are linked to terrorism.
Bahrain,
Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates, and
Egypt, who had demanded the list amid tensions with Qatar, welcome its release but criticise the time taken to prepare it.
(Gulf News)
The
European Union calls on
Turkey to cease military actions aimed at enforcing Turkish claims to disputed natural gas deposits. The bloc also asks Turkey to release detained EU citizens.
(al-Jazeera)
An open letter from international politicians, activists, journalists, and academics demands an independent commission be formed to investigate the assassination of
Brazilian human rights activist
Marielle Franco and her driver.
(The Guardian)
An
Indian court convicts eleven
Hindus of murdering a
Muslim man they discovered transporting beef, sentencing them to life. It is the first successful prosecution of cow vigilantism violence in India.
(BBC)
Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, wounded when he came to the aid of the poisoned
Russian dissidents, is discharged from hospital.
(BBC)
British Prime Minister
Theresa May calls the incident "part of a pattern of Russian aggression against Europe" and promises to raise the matter at an upcoming
European Union summit.
(BBC)
The Court of Protection hears the Skripals are unable to communicate and may have suffered lifelong brain damage. It rules blood samples can be taken from the pair for analysis by the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and grants the group access to medical records.
(The Independent)
A Peruvian court confirms it will consider a request to impose a travel ban on President
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski if his resignation is confirmed by lawmakers, who are considering whether to accept it. Some politicians have vowed to resist the resignation in favour of instead impeaching Kuczynski.
(The New Jersey Herald)
Peruvian Vice President
Martín Vizcarra returns from
Canada, where he is his nation's ambassador, in preparation to take over the Presidency.
(CBC)
Convicted terrorist Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Ali is jailed for life in
London for one count of attempted murder and one of causing an explosion with intent to endanger life. He will have to serve 34 years before becoming eligible for parole.
(Surrey Advertiser)
A car bomb is driven into a crowd outside the Ghazi Muhammad Ayub Khan Stadium in
Lashkar Gah,
Helmund, before detonating. At least 13 people are killed.
(BBC)
A fire at a condominium complex in
Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam, kills at least 13 people and injures another 27, with most people dying of suffocation or jumping from high floors.
(The Washington Post)
The
European Union agrees with the
United Kingdom's assessment of the incident, stating that "there is no plausible alternative explanation" to
Russian involvement.
(NPR)
The EU ambassador to Russia is recalled from
Moscow.
(BBC)
The
United States charges and sanctions nine
Iranians and the Iranian company Mabna Institute for hacking and attempting to hack hundreds of universities.
(Reuters)
Turkey calls a statement of
European Union support for Greek Cypriots in a dispute over offshore resources "unacceptable". Turkey has been using its Navy to prevent exploration by Cypriot vessels.
(al-Jazeera)
Two lorry drivers receive prison terms, one of 14 years, for killing eight people when their vehicles collided with a bus on the
M1 in
Buckinghamshire,
England, in 2017.
(BBC)
US President
Donald Trump issues an order banning "
transgender persons who require or have undergone gender transition" from the military.
Pentagon spokesman Major David Eastburn says this announcement will have no immediate practical effect for the military which will continue to recruit and retain transgender people in accordance with
current law.
(BBC)(NBC News)
A bomb planted beneath a car explodes in
Alexandria,
Egypt, as a motorcade carrying the city's head of security passes by, killing at least two people.
(The Telegraph)
The Times reports their journalist, Bel Trew, had been expelled from
Egypt shortly after her February 20 arrest. Trew had been given the option of a military trial or leaving the country.
(AP)(The Guardian)
The Kofu District Public Prosecutor’s Office in
Japan announces nobody will be prosecuted over the collapse of the
Sasago Tunnel, which killed nine and injured three. Officials say the collapse would have been difficult to predict.
(The Japan Times)
Two men are rescued from a capsized dredger off
Malaysia after 50 hours in an air pocket in the engine room. The death toll so far is nine, with rescue efforts underway to search for more survivors.
(Sky News)
A friend of poisoned exiled
Russian spy
Sergei Skripal claims Skripal had written to
Vladimir Putin asking to return to Russia. Russia denies receiving such a letter.
(BBC)
The 23
British diplomats and their families expelled from the Russian Federation arrive on a flight from
Moscow.
(BBC)
Investigators discover the Skripals switched off their mobile phones for four hours shortly before falling ill, and begin examining mobile phone data from everyone in
Salisbury the day of the crime in a bid to link a phone to the poisoner.
(Daily Mirror)
Law and crime
A car is deliberately driven into a group of schoolgirls in
Glasgow,
Scotland, injuring five.
Police launch an attempted murder probe.
(BBC)
A
car bomb claimed by
Al-Shabab kills five people including the driver and wounds around ten others outside
Somalia's Parliament, Interior Ministry, and Presidential Palace buildings in
Mogadishu.
(ABC)
ISIL releases a statement claiming responsibility for killing or wounding 103
Iraqi soldiers within one month. The group also claims to have abducted 13 more soldiers, and destroyed 12 armoured vehicles.
(Iraqi News)
A suspected drunk driver loses control while fleeing police in
Maputo,
Mozambique, strikes a crowd, and kills 21 people, injuring 30 more.
(The Nation)
Following a collapse of a
farm and a large release of
Atlantic salmon into the
Pacific, the state of
Washington bans the farming of Atlantic salmon in their territorial waters.
(NPR)
The
USNational Transportation Safety Board releases a preliminary investigative report containing new information on the accident, in which five passengers drowned when they were trapped in the wreckage.
(CNN)
A letter from 59
US Senators is sent to
Polish Prime Minister
Mateusz Morawiecki criticising proposed legislation on reparations to
Holocaust victims. The Senators say the bill will discriminate against victims and descendants who had emigrated.
(The Times of Israel)
French police detain two men in connection with the murder of an 85-year-old
Holocaust survivor who was found in the burned remains of her apartment. The prosecutor's office is investigating if the killing was "motivated by the real or supposed
adherence to a religion".
(Reuters)
In regards to the March 23 attack that killed four people,
French state prosecutor François Molins charges attacker Radouane Lakdim's 18-year-old girlfriend with terrorist conspiracy.
(The Guardian)
ArXiv publishes research that a
gas giant may be orbiting a
brown dwarf. The
exoplanet, designated OGLE-2017-BLG-1522Lb, orbits its host at a distance of 0.59
AU and could be the first known gas giant to have formed inside the
protoplanetary disk of a brown dwarf.
(Phys.org)
Justice Michael Alexander Soole sentences Paul Moore to lifetime incarceration with a minimum imprisonment of 20 years for using his car to attack
Muslims following a string of terror attacks in 2017 linked to
Islamic extremism.
(The Guardian)
The government of
Turkey states that eleven
Kurdish militants have been killed near its
Syrian border, and two soldiers were killed by an explosion in Syria.
(US News)
The
FBI arrests
Everett, Washington, 43-year-old Thanh Cong Phan on suspicion of charges of illegally shipping explosive materials by sending 12 package bombs to the
CIA as well as multiple military and government facilities in the
Washington, D.C. area. Those devices did not explode.
(CBS News)
A
Dutch court rules police are liable for a
mass shooting at a shopping centre that killed six and wounded sixteen because the gunman should not have been issued a firearms licence.
(Sky News)
A report by
Max Hill QC, an independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, reviewing the
police response to the March
2017 Westminster attack, concludes that the arrests of 12 people cleared of involvement were appropriate, as was the questioning of them on their religious beliefs.
(The Guardian)
Italian counter-terror police arrest Elmahdi Halili on suspicion of planning attacks with knives and lorries, attempting to recruit terrorist attackers, and creating the first piece of
Islamic State propaganda in Italian.
(The Local)
Iraqi authorities announce the arrest of alleged senior
Islamic State member Saab Abdullah al-Issawi in a military-supported airdrop in
Anbar.
(Iraqi News)
Conviviality PLC, owner of
Wine Rack and
Bargain Booze, announces it has been refused investment to stave off bankruptcy and will likely enter administration.
(The Guardian)
A
New Zealand light aircraft pilot Rod Vaughan claims that his plane was brought down at
Waihi after colliding with a
drone. If true, it would be the first such incident in the country.
(Stuff)
English judge Christine Henson fines St. Michael's Hospice in St. Leonards, at
East Sussex, over the July 2015 fire in which three residents died.
(BBC)
Mubarak al-Ajji, named on a
Qatari official list of wanted terrorists, wins second place at a government-sponsored
triathlon and is photographed at the medal ceremony.
(The Week)
The trial of Noor Salman, widow of
Pulse nightclub shooter
Omar Mateen, hears closing arguments. Jurors begin deliberations. During the trial it was revealed that Mateen's father was an FBI informant.
(CNN)
French left-wing activist Stephane Poussier receives a one-year suspended term for praising the death of a policeman in a terrorist attack.
(The Times of Israel)
The
linguistics journal Diachronica publishes
Australian research implying that a tracement of the country's indigenous
languages can be made back to a single, common language known as Proto-Australian, which was spoken around 10,000-years ago.
(BBC)
Research published in the journal Science Advances implies
the Earth may have had water earlier than thought, and that terrestrial water could have survived the impact that created
the Moon, the event which was previously hypothesised to be responsible for our planet's water.
(New Scientist),
(Science Advances)
Research published in the journal
Nature implies the existence of a galaxy that appears to contain no
dark matter, dubbed
NGC1052-DF2. If confirmed it would be the first such galaxy discovered.
(BBC),
(Nature)
The Central District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment with the
Israeli Lod District Court against Abed al-Karim Adel Asi for the murder of a rabbi on February 5 and the Haifa District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against Malek Yusef Nahar Asadi for the March 4 attempted murder by ramming a car which injured four people.
(The Jerusalem Post)
An attempted prison break and subsequent rioting and fires at a police station in
Valencia,
Carabobo State,
Venezuela, results in at least 68 people dead. Two women who were visiting inmates are thought to be among the dead. Prosecutor General
Tarek Saab says an investigation into what has happened would begin immediately.
(BBC)
A
French animal rights activist is charged under counterterror legislation for praising the death of a butcher in a terror attack.
(The Times of Israel)
A pair of women accuse The Ren & Stimpy Show creator
John Kricfalusi of sexually abusing them in the 1990s while they were minors. Kricfalusi, who was in his 40s at the time, admitted to
Buzzfeed that he had an underage girlfriend during the years in question.
(BuzzFeed)
A roadside bomb in
Syria kills one
British and one
U.S. soldier and injures five more coalition personnel. It is the first death of a British soldier fighting
ISIL.
(The Telegraph)
On
Land Day, the start of a planned six-week protest at the
Israeli-
Gazan border involving tens of thousands of
Palestinians, Israeli forces kill 16 Palestinians and wound over 1,100 others as tens of thousands of protestors approach the border fence.
(The Times of Israel),
(Reuters)
In the latest in a series of raids,
Italian authorities detain 19-year-old Ilyass Hadouz in
Fossano on suspicion of pro-ISIL extremism.
(Euronews)
National counter-terror prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho states that an estimated 50 people have returned to
Italy after fighting with the
Islamic State.
(ANSA)
A United States court jury in
Florida finds the widow of
Omar Mateen not guilty of assisting her husband in the June 2016 attack that killed 49 people.
(CNN)
Police in
Germany announce that earlier this week they detained four
Syrian nationals on suspicion of arson and attempted murder over a
TurkishMuslim mosque firebombing in
Ulm. Police say the attack "may have been
politically motivated".
(The Local)
An overloaded bus carrying migrants from
Iran,
Pakistan, and
Afghanistan crashes into a light pole on the Igdir-Kars highway in
Turkey and catches fire. A second bus hits some of the ejected passengers, killing at least 17 people and wounding 36 others.
(The Times of Israel)
An overloaded bus explodes a tyre and crashes near Bhanjyang,
Nepal, killing at least two people and wounding dozens of others. A riot follows.
(ABC)
The government of
Russia declares a state of emergency in
Volokolamsk over toxic
hydrogen sulphide fumes leaking from a dump at at least ten times permitted concentrations.
(BBC)
Mexican federal police and migration agents find 136 migrants in a locked truck abandoned near a freeway in
Veracruz. Without water or food, the people from the countries of
Honduras,
Guatemala,
El Salvador, and
Nicaragua, including dozens of minors, were en route to the
United States.
(Reuters)
U.S. sportswear brand
Under Armour states that the personal details (including user names, email addresses and scrambled passwords) of about 150 million users of the
MyFitnessPal application were compromised in one of the biggest hacks in history.
(The Guardian)
The
Lansing, Michigan,
Catholic Diocese's insurance company files a civil suit against Rev. Jonathan Wehrle, former pastor of St. Martha's Catholic Church in
Okemos, a Lansing suburb, for the embezzlement of more than $5 million from his parish. Wehrle already faces six criminal counts for using embezzled funds to pay for home construction (appraised for much more than a $1 million), maintenance, and purchases.
(Lansing State Journal),
(AP via ABC News),
(Lansing State Journal²)
Police in
London announce the arrest on March 29 of a 19-year-old man suspected of the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism.
(Time 107.5fm)
U.S.-based automobile manufacturer
Tesla confirms that one of their
Model X cars was placed into Autopilot mode moments before a fatal crash in
California,
United States. Tesla's Autopilot system is not intended to operate independently and as such the driver is meant to have their hands on the wheel at all times. The recorder of the system logged that the driver did not have their hands on the wheel at the time of the crash.
(BBC)
A hotel collapses in
Indore,
India, killing at least 10 people.
(CNBC)
A fairground ride collapses in
Neuville-sur-Saône, central
France. Occupied pods attached to the ride fall to the ground, ejecting some riders, with one man dead.
(Channel News Asia)
The
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency claims a
Vietnamese fishing vessel tried to ram one of their boats when they tried to detain it for illegally entering and fishing from Malaysian waters.
(The Sun Daily)
Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas accuses
Israel of responsibility for the deaths of 16 protestors at the border with
Gaza. Israel accuses Palestinian terrorists of using civilians as human shields. A video begins circulating on
social media appearing to show an unarmed teenager being shot.
(Bloomberg)
Israel claims to have identified ten of the dead as members of terrorist organisations, and publishes a list of their names and the groups Israel says they belonged to.
(The Times of Israel)
An unknown source supposedly leaks a report from the
German defence ministry which suggests the nation's Tornado fighter jets may not meet
NATO requirements for secure encrypted communications and are therefore potentially unsuitable for NATO missions.
(Reuters)
The
French ambassador to
Italy is summoned to the
Italian foreign ministry to explain an incident in which French police cross over the sovereign border of Italy, enter a migrant clinic in
Turin, and force a refugee to take a
urine test.
(BBC)
In
Madarganj Upazila,
Jamalpur,
Bangladesh, a group of between 70 and 80 people from one faith of mosque attack an inauguration ceremony for another faith of mosque, resulting in at least 20 injured.
(The Rabwah Times)