Portal:Current events/2013 March 7
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2013 Lahad Datu standoff:
- The death toll rises to at least 60 persons in the conflict between the Sultanate of Sulu and Malaysian Armed Forces. (The New York Times)
Arts and culture
- Hilary Mantel is awarded the 2013 David Cohen Prize for literature. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- Six people are injured and four more could be hospitalized (none are believed critically injured) after a gas explosion at American Steel (part of Amsted Rail Co.), in the Greater St. Louis Metro East suburb of Granite City, Illinois. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
International relations
- Nuclear program of North Korea:
- North Korea threatens its enemies with the possibility of a pre-emptive nuclear strike, amplifying its threatening rhetoric. (Fox News) (Reuters)
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Law and crime
- Former wiretap and is sentenced to a year in jail. (BBC)
- convicted of perverting the course of justice after accepting speeding penalty points on Huhne's behalf. (BBC)
- Hilton Botha, the former lead detective in the murder case involving Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, has resigned from the South African Police Service. (SAPA via News24)
- Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, alleged spokesman for al-Qaeda and said to be the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, is captured in Jordan and faces criminal charges in the United States. (Star Tribune)
Politics and elections
- Victoria replacing Ted Baillieu. (ABC News Australia)
- In Kenyan presidential election have been doctored. (BBC)
- In the combat drones would not be used to target and kill, without due process, Americans not engaged in combat on American soil. (Fox News)
Science and technology
- The first built Bombardier Aerospace, has its Final Assembly Line facility and flight test facility. (Reuters)
Sport
- The first legs of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League round of 16 are held across Europe. Gareth Bale helps Tottenham to a 3–0 defeat of Inter Milan. (BBC) (Eurosport)