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March 10, 2016
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
Clashes between the
Lebanese Army
and jihadist militants near the village of
Ras Baalbek
in northeast
Lebanon
, close to the
Syrian
border, leaves one soldier and eight militants dead.
(AFP via
Daily Mail
)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Dozens of militants are killed in fighting between rival
Taliban
factions in
Afghanistan
's western
Herat Province
.
(
The Guardian
)
Disasters and accidents
Two days of heavy rain in the American state of
Louisiana
has caused at least three deaths and caused more than a thousand people to evacuate their homes.
(Fox News)
International relations
United States–Venezuela relations
Venezuela
recalls its
chargé d'affaires
from
its embassy
in
Washington, D.C.
after
U.S. President
Barack Obama
renewed a decree imposing sanctions on several top Venezuelan officials.
(Reuters)
North Korea–South Korea relations
North Korea
fires two missiles into the
Sea of Japan
and announces its intention to liquidate all remaining
South Korean
assets on its territory.
(AFP via Yahoo! News)
Law and crime
Former
Russian
Press Minister
Mikhail Lesin
was found by an American investigation to have died of blunt force injuries in
Washington, D.C.
in November last year.
(Reuters)
A jury in a
U.S. federal court
in
Scranton, Pennsylvania
says that
Cabot Oil
must pay plaintiffs $4.2 million in damages that resulted from Cabot's
fracking
operations in the northeast part of that state.
(Reuters)
Politics and elections
Three candidates are put forward to become
President of Myanmar
:
Htin Kyaw
and Sai Nyunt Lwin from the
National League for Democracy
and
Khin Aung Myint
from the
military
.
(ABC News Australia)
The
Irish
Dáil Éireann
(parliament) fails to elect a new
taoiseach
(Prime Minister) with incumbent
Enda Kenny
carrying on as a caretaker.
(BBC)
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