Portal:Current events/2012 March 3
March 3, 2012 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syria:
- The United Nations demands that Syria allow in humanitarian aid after a Red Cross relief mission was denied access to Homs yesterday. (AFP via The Australian)
- A suicide bomber kills at least two people and injures several others in the town of Deraa. (Reuters)
- At least three people are killed in a bombing that targeted a Republican Guard building in Badya, Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
- The Aquabats! Super Show! is on The Hub
Disasters
- Australians living in the north-western Sydney suburbs of Richmond, Pitt Town and Grono Point are evacuated as the Nepean-Hawkesbury River system floods after Warragamba Dam overflows. (News Limited)
- The death toll from a tornado outbreak in the US reaches at least 36, with casualties reported in Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia and Ohio. (BBC) (Reuters) (CNN)
- Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 13 people killed and up to 50 people injured. (BBC) (AP via Google) (Reuters via MSNBC)
- 50 people are killed and 27 injured in eastern Guinea after a lorry they were travelling in crashed. (AFP via Google)
Law and crime
- Egypt appoints new judges for the trial of 43 non-government organisation workers including six Americans who left earlier in the week. (Washington Post)
- The criminal case associated with the wreck of the Costa Concordia starts in Italy. (New York Times)
Politics and elections
- Residents of Wukan in southern China that staged a revolt against officials hold council elections. (BBC) (China Daily)
- Early returns in the Iranian legislative election show the conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doing well. (The Guardian)
- Authorities in Tajikistan close access to Facebook and sites with material critical of President Emomali Rakhmon. (RIA Novosti)
- Republican voters in the US state of Washington go to the polls for caucuses, with Mitt Romney winning. (MSNBC) (AP via Houston Chronicle)