Portal:Current events/2010 March 25
March 25, 2010 (Thursday)
- A car bomb killed at least 6 people and wounded more than 40 others in a Colombia's Buenaventura city notorious for cocaine trafficking. (Pravda.ru)
- Rustam Minnikhanov is sworn in as the second president of Tatarstan. (Radio Free Europe)
- Pakistan's jet fighters pounds militants' hideouts in northwest Pakistan's Mamozai area, killing at least 48 people and injuring 32 others. (Xinhua)
- A Gazan fisherman is critically wounded when the Israeli navy targets his fishing boat in an early morning attack. (The Muslim News)
- The United States weakens proposed sanctions against Iran in a bid to win broader support on the UN Security Council as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismisses the impact of any new measures to stop Iran’s nuclear program. (The Christian Science Monitor)
- Child sex abuse in the Catholic Church:
- Pope Benedict XVI is accused of failing to act in a case of the sexual abuse of 200 deaf boys. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera) (The Hindu)
- Bishop of Waterford and Lismore William Lee apologises for his two-year delay in failing to alert authorities to child sexual abuse allegations in his parish in the mid-1990s, describing as "seriously inadequate" his handling of the matter. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (BBC) (CNN)
- An editorial from the Vatican says the news media is acting "with the clear and ignoble intent of trying to strike Benedict and his closest collaborators at any cost". (L'Osservatore Romano) (The New York Times) (BBC News)
- Hamas decides to execute Palestinians whom they have found guilty of “collaboration” with Israel despite protests by human rights and legal organizations, while criticizing those who have been firing rockets at Israel in the past few days. (The Jerusalem Post)
- 500 homes near the airport in Mogadishu are demolished by Somali troops. (BBC)
- President of the United States Barack Obama requests that Cuba's leaders release all political prisoners, describing human rights there as "deeply disturbing". (Al Jazeera)
- 3 die in a medical helicopter crash in Tennessee, United States, with the helicopter that crashed being operated by Hospital Wing. (CNN)
- U.S. defense secretary Robert Gates announces new rules that make it more difficult to expel gay service members. (The New York Times)
- Munster Rugby fans in Ireland win a court case against the state allowing pubs to open for business on Good Friday, a day that normally sees all pubs in the country shut for religious reasons. (RTÉ) (BBC) (The Irish Times)
- Independent News & Media sells its British titles to Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev for £1. (Reuters) (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (The Guardian)
- Dennis Hopper:
- The lawyer for Dennis Hopper admits for the first time that the actor is terminally ill and unable to undergo chemotherapy treatment for his prostate cancer. (BBC) (Montreal Gazette) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Hopper receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (USA Today)