Portal:Current events/2014 March 22
March 22, 2014 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Post-civil war violence in Libya
- The Libyan National Army fights with rebels occupying oil ports near Benghazi. (Reuters)
- 2014 Crimean crisis
- Russian troops capture Novofedorivka, an airbase of the Ukrainian Navy in the western region of the Crimean Peninsula. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- A member of the governing council of the European Central Bank says that the ECB may yet cut interest rates still further, into negative territory. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Five people die after a light plane catches fire on take-off at Caboolture Airport in Queensland, Australia. (The Guardian)
- At least 35 people die in Balochistan, Pakistan, in a collision between a petrol tanker and two buses. (PTI via Business Standard)
- 2014 Oso mudslide:
- A landslide kills two people, and injures six in Oso, Washington, United States. (CNN)
- 2014 Galveston Bay fuel oil spill:
- A barge carrying nearly a million gallons of oil collides with a ship in Galveston Bay on the coast of the US state of Texas causing an oil spill. (AP)
International relations
- The Veneto region votes to secede from Italy in an informal online referendum. (The Daily Mail)
Sports
- Major League Baseball starts its 2014 season at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks by a score of 3–1. (AP via ESPN)