Portal:Current events/2014 March 21
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- Gunmen attack a police headquarters north of Baghdad and suicide bombers strike across Iraq killing 25 people and injuring dozens. (AP via Washington Post)
- Clashes erupt in Tripoli, Lebanon, between Syrian regime supporters and detractors, leaving three dead. (Time)
Business and economy
- Turkey restricts access to Twitter hours after the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens to "root out" the social network where politically sensitive documents had been published. (AP)
International relations
- 2014 Crimean Crisis:
- The Federal Assembly, approves the annexation of Crimea. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- The President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs the legislation completing the annexation of Crimea. (Reuters)
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- Ukraine signs an association accord with the European Union in defiance of Russia. (AFP via Google News)
Law and crime
- American judge Bernard A. Friedman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan overturns Michigan's ban on same-sex marriages. (AP via Washington Post)
- A kindergarten lunch in Qiubei County, China, is poisoned, leaving two children dead and another thirty sick. (AP via CTV)
Politics and elections
- Thai general election, 2014:
- The general election held on February 2, on the grounds that voting was not held on the same day throughout the country. (AFP via Malaysia Today)
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