Portal:Current events/2014 March 27
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Six people are stabbed to death in a family property dispute in Beijing, China. (Reuters via Euronews)
- The
Business and economy
- 2014 Ukrainian revolution:
- The secure an aid package from the IMF. (BBC News)
- The IMF pledges US$18 billion in loans to help steady Ukraine's economy. (CBS News)
- The
- Pharmaceutical company Baxter International announces will split into two by mid 2015. (Businessweek)
- England's Moscow-based aluminum producer, is right in its objections to new rules proposed by London Metal Exchange concerning the use of LME controlled warehouses. (Bloomberg)
Disasters and accidents
- Canada's Atlantic seaboard provinces brace for a spring blizzard that is predicted to be the worst storm in a decade. (AAP via SBS)
International relations
- Holy See–United States relations:
- President of the United States Barack Obama meets Pope Francis for the first time since Francis' inauguration. (Los Angeles Times)
- 2014 Crimean crisis:
- The General Assembly of the United Nations passes a motion condemning the Russian annexation of Crimea. (BBC News)
- The
Law and crime
- Garda phone tapping scandal:
- As the scandal rages on, it emerges whistleblowers but was prevented from doing so by officials in the Department of Justice. (RTÉ News)
- As the scandal rages on, it emerges
- Bangsamoro. (Al Jazeera)
- Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest serving death row inmate, is freed from a Japanese prison and granted a retrial after serving 48 years. (Washington Post)
Politics
- Turkey blocks access to YouTube after a high-level intelligence leak. (Business Insider) (BBC News)
- Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is confirmed as second-in-line to the Saudi Arabian throne. (Bloomberg)
- Sir Governor General of Australia. (ABC)
Science and technology
- It is announced publicly that, three months ago, doctors at the
- The journal Science publishes that an international team of scientists have for the first time successfully replaced one of the sixteen chromosomes of the genome of a yeast cell with a synthetic DNA chromosome. (BBC News)
- A study finds that Cuvier's beaked whale is capable of diving to a depth of 3.2km and staying under water for 137 minutes, both records for a mammal. (News.com.au)