Portal:Current events/2012 March 14
Armed conflict and attacks
- 2011-2012 Syrian uprising:
- The Syrian Army captures the former rebel held city of Idlib. (CNN)
- Amnesty International releases a report detailing wide scale abuse and torture of prisoners held by the Syrian government. (CBS)
- Afghanistan:
- Leon Panetta, the United States Secretary of Defense, arrives in Afghanistan to attempt to placate anger over the Kandahar massacre. (CNN)
- The soldier allegedly responsible is removed from Afghanistan to Kuwait. (Voice of America)
- More than 10,000 gold miners clash with police in an attempt to gain control over the regional capital Puerto Maldonado. (AP via Google News)
Arts and culture
- The United Kingdom towns of Chelmsford, Perth and St Asaph are awarded city status to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. (BBC)
Business and economy
- Unemployment in the United Kingdom reaches 2.67 million, the most people since 1995. (Office for National Statistics)
Disasters
- Tropical Cyclone Lua heads towards Western Australia's Pilbara region. (Bloomberg via Business Week)
- The death toll from the sinking of a ferry in Bangladesh rises to 110 with at least 61 others missing. (AP)
- A magnitude 6.8 Aomori prefecture on the island of Hokkaido. (AFP via News Limited)
- The bus crash yesterday travel to Switzerland to identify the bodies. (Reuters)
International relations
- Authorities in Revolutionary Guards. (BBC)
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Law and crime
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- An American jury finds massacre of 33 students in 2007. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
Politics
- Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly starts questioning the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his handling of the economy. (Ynet News)
Sport
- Dereck Chisora loses his British Boxing Board of Control license indefinitely following a clash with fellow boxer David Haye after his bout with World Boxing Council champion Vitali Klitschko in February. (AP via Fox Sports)[permanent dead link] (BBC)
- In basketball, Mike D'Antoni resigns as the coach of the New York Knicks. (New York Post)