March 10, 2019 (Sunday)
Disasters and accidents
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
- An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 149 passengers and eight crew members onboard crashes en route to Nairobi, Kenya, killing all 157 persons on board. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
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2019 Guatemalan general election
- Guatemalan political party Semilla proclaims Thelma Aldana as presidential candidate and Jonathan Menkos as vice presidential candidate. (El Periódico de Guatemala)
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Internet censorship in Russia
- Thousands of Russians take to the streets in Moscow, Voronezh, and Khabarovsk to protest internet restrictions. (Reuters)