Portal:Current events/2015 March 23
March 23, 2015 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
- China's biggest state-owned chemical company ChemChina acquires a 26% stake in Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli with an additional offer to buy the remaining outstanding shares. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- A bus crashes into traffic near Huarmey in northern Peru, leaving at least thirty-seven people dead and dozens injured. (AFP via ABC news)
International relations
- The National Assembly of Armenia approves a declaration recognizing the Greek and Assyrian genocides by Ottoman Turkey between 1915 and 1923. (Armenpress)
Law and crime
- The South Gauteng High Court sitting in Palm Ridge, Katlehong, finds former doubles tennis champion Bob Hewitt guilty of two counts of rape and one of sexual assault of three former students that he coached in South Africa. (News 24)
- Former NFL player Darren Sharper pleads guilty in a Maricopa County, Arizona courtroom to raping two women after spiking their drinks at a Tempe apartment in November 2013, and the court sentences him to nine years in prison. Sharper has also been indicted on charges of sexually assaulting women in the U.S. states of California, Louisiana, and Nevada. (Reuters)
- The U.S. Supreme Court affirms Wisconsin's law requiring voters to present photo identification to cast a ballot. (Reuters)
- The U.S. state of Utah reinstates the use of execution by firing squad for situations where lethal injection is not possible. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- Death of Lee Kuan Yew
- Lee Kuan Yew, a founding father of Singapore as well as its first prime minister, dies at the age of 91 after a prolonged illness. (BBC)
- 2016 United States presidential election
- Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announces his intention to run for president. (NBC News)