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This article covers breaking news and events in March 2014.

Daily events

Saturday 1st March 2014

Several unknown perpetrators killed at least 33 people with knives in Kunming Railway Station

• Ajnala / India : After excavations in a well of Gurdwara Shaheed Ganj in Ajnala ( Punjab ), the remains of 282 dead are examined. It is believed that there is a connection between the body and the Indian uprising of 1857 against British colonial rule .
• Cairo / Egypt : A new transitional government led by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab is sworn in. His cabinet consists of 31 ministers, including 20 ministers from the previous government such as Defense Minister Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi .
• Kiev / Ukraine : The Ukrainian interim president Oleksandr Turchynow ordered all Ukrainian military units to be on the alert because of the Crimean crisis in 2014 in a speech broadcast directly on television . Russia has no basis for its "act of aggression". Reports of dangers for Russian citizens or Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Crimea are “made up”.
• Kunming / China : In the Kunming train station , several unknown perpetrators kill at least 33 people with knives, and 109 others are injured. The Xinhua News Agency reports five perpetrators shot dead by security forces.
• Moscow / Russia : The Russian Federation Council gives President Vladimir Putin permission for Russian forces to be deployed in Ukraine . Given the "extraordinary situation", this was necessary to protect Russian citizens and the armed forces stationed in Crimea "until the situation had normalized".

Sunday March 2, 2014

• Brussels / Belgium : Extraordinary meeting of the North Atlantic Council of NATO on the situation in Ukraine .
• Kiev / Ukraine : The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (RNBO) orders the full mobilization of the Ukrainian armed forces. In 11 Ukrainian cities, including Kharkiv , Donetsk , Luhansk , Odessa and Simferopol , pro-Russian demonstrators are said to have hoisted the Russian flag at local administrations.
• Los Angeles / United States : 86th Academy Awards
• Maiduguri / Nigeria : At least 35 people are killed in two bomb attacks by suspected Islamist terrorists . At the same time, armed fighters are indiscriminately attacking residents in Mainok, 50 km away, killing at least 39 people.
• Sevastopol / Ukraine : The commander of the Ukrainian naval forces , Admiral Denys Berezovskyj , appointed by the interim government in Kiev on February 28, has defected to the pro-Russian leadership of Crimea . At a press conference he announced: "I, Berezovsky Denis Walentinowitsch, take an oath of allegiance to the people of Crimea and undertake to protect them in accordance with the service rules."

Monday March 3, 2014

• Kolyma lowlands / Russia : French scientists, including Jean-Michel Claverie and Chantal Abergel from the University of Aix-Marseille , announce a virus that infects amoebas and is called Pithovirus sibericum in around 30,000 year old permafrost , known in the media as a "giant virus" - Having discovered soil.

Tuesday 4th March 2014

• Brussels / Belgium : Special meeting of the 28 NATO member states on the basis of Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty , which Poland requested the day before .
• Cairo / Egypt : A court for urgent matters in Cairo (Cairo Court for Urgent Matters) bans the Sunni - Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas in Egypt and orders the confiscation of the property.
• Naples / Italy : The Italian state allows the repair of the ancient city of Pompeii and is making around two million euros available.
• Sevastopol / Ukraine : Allegedly around 400 Russian soldiers continue to block access to the Ukrainian air force base in Belbek and the runway there and fire warning shots at Ukrainian soldiers for the first time. According to the Ukrainian officer Olexeij Khramov stationed on the spot, a group of unarmed military personnel attempted to enter the base and their place of work. Around 300 Ukrainian soldiers under the leadership of Colonel Yuri Mamchur are at the military airfield.

Wednesday March 5, 2014

• Brussels / Belgium : In a cartel settlement procedure, the European Commission imposes fines totaling EUR 5.98 million on the spot energy exchanges EPEX SPOT in France and the Norwegian Nord Pool Spot (NPS) for illegal agreements on non-competing market sharing in the European Economic Area (EEA).
• Munich / Germany : The Abendzeitung (AZ) files an application to the Munich District Court to open insolvency proceedings .
• Red Sea : In a secret operation, the Israeli commando unit Schajetet 13 seizes the Panamanian flagged ship Klos-C in the Red Sea off the Eritrean coast and confiscates the cargo. According to Israeli information , the cargo ship coming from Iran via Iraq contained cement, modern surface-to-surface missiles of the Syrian type M-302 with a range of around 160 km, which were intended for the Gaza Strip . When the ship was unloaded on March 9th in Eilat , 40 M-302 rockets and 400,000 7.62 caliber cartridges were discovered.
• Vienna / Austria : The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) begins its observer mission in Ukraine , in which 35 military observers from 18 countries are participating and which is scheduled to run until March 12, 2014.
• Wünsdorf / Germany : The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation is presenting a skeleton that is more than 7,000 years old . The bones of the Mesolithic man were discovered in 2008 in Rathsdorf during the construction of an opal natural gas pipeline .

Thursday March 6, 2014

• Brussels / Belgium : Extraordinary summit of the heads of state and government of the European Union on the crisis in Ukraine and the Russian intervention in Crimea . The Council of the European Union imposed by the regulation no. 208/2014 on restrictive measures against 18 persons of the former regime under Viktor Yanukovych .
• Niamey / Niger : As-Saadi al-Gaddafi , a son of the former revolutionary leader Muammar al-Gaddafi , who fled to Niger in September 2011 during the Libyan civil war , is extradited to Libya . Saadi Gaddafi, who was initially granted asylum in the neighboring country, is now in Hadbha prison after being transferred.
• Osnabrück / Germany : Legal proceedings before the Osnabrück regional court for the decades-long unresolved murder of the then nine-year-old Christina in November 1987.
• Simferopol / Ukraine : The since February 27, 2014 reigning after the occupation of Parliament by pro-Russian militias Prime Minister of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , Sergei Aksyonov and his government, again changes the date for a referendum on the independence of Crimea and now advocates a territorial secession from Ukraine and accession to the Russian Federation. The date has been brought forward again, this time from March 30 to March 16, 2014. Ukraine does not recognize Aksyonov's government.

Friday March 7th 2014

Winter Paralympic Games logo

• The Hague / Netherlands : The International Criminal Court finds the former commander of the Forces de Résistance Patriotique d'Ituri (FRPI), Germain Katanga , guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity . According to the court, on February 24, 2003, Katanga delivered weapons for a massacre in the village of Bogoro, Ituri district, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in which 200 people were killed and numerous women were raped. The amount of the sentence will be announced later.
• Lingiades / Greece : The German Federal President Joachim Gauck officially visits the village of Lingiades together with the Greek President Karolos Papoulias "to commemorate the victims of a cruel massacre there." Soldiers of the 1st Mountain Division of the Wehrmacht took part in a reprisal in October 1943 A total of 83 residents were murdered after the EDES resistance group shot and killed Lieutenant Colonel Josef Salminger during the occupation of Greece in World War II .
• Myrnyj / Ukraine : During the Crimean crisis in 2014, Russian soldiers allegedly sank the disused submarine hunter Ochakov of the Kara class in front of the entrance to an artificial bay by explosions. This will block the access of Ukrainian boats to the naval base in Nowooserne .
• Sevastopol / Ukraine : Around 20 armed Russians without a national badge broke into the Ukrainian air force base (identification A-2355) outside Sevastopol and are throwing stun grenades. No shots have been fired so far. Around 100 Ukrainian soldiers at the base then holed up in the barracks.
• Sochi / Russia : Opening of the 2014 Winter Paralympics .

Saturday 8th March 2014

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER with the identification 9M-MRO (photo 2011) disappears without a trace on flight MH370

• Cape Ca Mau / Vietnam : Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with a Boeing 777-200 aircraft disappears from radar surveillance at 12:41 a.m. local time with 239 people from 13 nations, about 150 kilometers off the Malaysian coast.

Sunday March 9, 2014

Suspected pro-Russian security forces block the Ukrainian military base in Perewalne on March 9, 2014 during the Crimean crisis

• Bogotá / Colombia : The parliamentary elections in Colombia in 2014 will take place.
• Jdeidet Jabus / Syria : Three months after being abducted by Syrian rebels , 13 Christian Orthodox nuns from the Mar Takla monastery are released.
• Hilla / Iraq : 37 people die and more than 150 people are injured in a suicide attack on a minibus.
• Pyongyang / North Korea : The parliamentary elections in North Korea in 2014 will take place.
• Saarlouis / Germany : The ADAC automobile club , which is in crisis, has to pay around 500 million euros in taxes to the tax authorities ( Federal Central Tax Office ).
• San Salvador / El Salvador : The runoff election in the presidential election in El Salvador will take place.

Monday March 10, 2014

• Brussels / Belgium : The German company CureVac , headquartered in Tübingen , receives the European Commission's innovation award, which is endowed with 2 million euros for the first time, for a new vaccination technology based on messenger RNA ( mRNA ).
• Döhren-Wülfel / Germany : CeBIT starts for the first time only with visitors from politics and business at the Hanover Exhibition Center .
• Kunri / Pakistan : After the ongoing famine in the province of Sindh , at least 62 children are said to have died in the Thar desert in the past three months .
• Munich / Germany : Opening of criminal proceedings for tax evasion against the entrepreneur and football official Uli Hoeneß in front of the Munich II regional court , which triggers an extraordinary media response.

Tuesday March 11, 2014

• Berlin / Germany : The Berlin public prosecutor's office begins investigating the politician Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) in the Edathy affair on suspicion of betrayal of secrets during his tenure as Federal Minister of the Interior.
• Hamburg / Germany : The German National Foundation awards the representatives of the Leipzig Monday demonstrations , who with their actions contributed to the memory of the peaceful revolution in the GDR and the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the German National Prize 2014.
• Port-au-Prince / Haiti : The Haitian government and human rights campaigners are suing the United Nations because of the ongoing cholera epidemic .
• Simferopol / Ukraine : In the parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 78 of the 81 members present formally vote for the independence of Crimea, including Sevastopol, in the event that the referendum should result in this and announce an application for admission to the Russian Federation . They want to become a democratic, secular and multi-ethnic state and rely, among other things, on the Kosovo opinion of the International Court of Justice of July 22, 2010, according to which a unilateral declaration of independence does not violate international law. 19 MPs did not take part in the vote. The government allocates led by Sergei Aksyonov , the nationalization stationed in Crimea ships, boats and bodies of the Ukrainian Naval Forces of. The power plants in Crimea and the energy company Tschornomornaftohas are also to be confiscated.
• Tripoli / Libya : Prime Minister Ali Seidan is removed from office by the Libyan parliament by a vote of no confidence. Defense Minister Abdullah al-Thenni is appointed interim successor.

Wednesday March 12, 2014

• Berlin / Germany : The Catholic Bureau appoints Reinhard Cardinal Marx as the new chairman of the Bishops' Conference .
• Beyoğlu / Turkey : After riots after the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan , anti-government protests in Gezi Park and Taksim Square lead to several arrests and injuries.
• Jerusalem / Israel : 67 of 120 members of the Knesset vote for defense reform. According to this, ultra-Orthodox Jews will also have to do military or community service in the future . Since the founding of the state in 1948, ultra-Orthodox Jews who devote themselves full-time to studying the Talmud Torah have been exempt from military service.
• Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament is in favor of a planned General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union with 621 votes in favor, 10 against and 22 abstentions . With 544 votes in favor, 78 against and 60 abstentions, the MEPs also vote for a suspension of the Safe Harbor Agreement for the transmission of commercial data to the USA and the suspension of the SWIFT Agreement for the transmission of bank data of European citizens to the USA. The Council of the European Union has not yet been able to agree on a new version of the General Data Protection Regulation and the current suspension plans for data transfers to the USA also require the consent of the EU member states.

Thursday March 13, 2014

• Munich / Germany : The German entrepreneur and football official Uli Hoeneß is sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment before the Munich II district court for tax evasion . The next day he resigns from his offices as President and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of FC Bayern Munich .
• San Salvador / El Salvador : The Supreme Electoral Court confirmed Salvador Sánchez Cerén ( FMLN ) as the winner of the runoff in the presidential election with 50.11 percent compared to Norman Quijano ( ARENA ) with 49.89 percent of the vote.

Friday March 14, 2014

• Gamboru / Nigeria : At least 15 people died in an attack by the Boko Haram on the Giwa Baracks of the Nigerian Armed Forces in Gamboru, Maiduguri , in the state of Borno . Up to 622 suspected Boko Haram members were subsequently killed by the armed forces, many as part of extrajudicial executions.
• Kfar Schuba / Israel : Several people are killed in skirmishes between the Israel Defense Forces and the Hezbollah splinter group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). The attack was in retaliation for the explosion of several car bombs in the Kfar Shouba Mountains .
• Cologne / Germany : The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution announces the cessation of the observation of the members of the Bundestag of the party Die Linke by the constitution protection . The decision is the result of a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court in September 2013, which objected to the observation of the politician Bodo Ramelow .
• Paris / France : The Cour d'appel de Paris (Court of Appeal) sentenced the former head of the Rwandan secret service (L'Akazu) Pascal Simbikangwa to 25 years in prison for genocide .

Saturday 15th March 2014

• Bratislava / Slovakia : The 2014 presidential election in Slovakia will take place.

Sunday March 16, 2014

• Belgrade / Serbia : In the parliamentary elections in Serbia 2014 , the Conservative Progressive Party (SNS) wins an absolute majority in the Serbian National Assembly .
• Levant Sea : The United States Special Operations Command Europe orders the storming of the stateless tanker Morning Glory on the orders of US President Barack Obama at the request of the Libyan and Cypriot governments . US soldiers from the special forces unit Navy SEALs from the destroyer Roosevelt were able to bring the tanker under their control in international waters. Militias in Libya wanted to use the tanker to export crude oil on their own. Three armed insurgents had brought the ship under their control at the oil terminal of as-Sidr in February . The ship used to sail under the North Korean flag and belonged to the Libyan National Oil Corporation . The destroyer Stout accompanies the tanker back to Libya.
• Moscow / Russia : RWE sells the oil and gas production subsidiary RWE Dea of the Russian oligarch Michail Fridman to the investment company LetterOne Group based in Luxembourg for 5.1 billion euros .
• Munich / Germany : The municipal elections in Bavaria 2014 and the municipal elections in Munich 2014 will take place.
• Newbury / United Kingdom : The Vodafone Group buys the Spanish cable provider Ono for 7.2 billion euros .
• Sechura / Peru : The Andes - Piura Region is hit by an earthquake measuring 6.3.
• Tacna / Chile : A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Chilean province of Región de Arica y Parinacota , whereupon the authorities issued a tsunami warning. The coastal towns of Arica and Tocopilla will then be evacuated as a precaution.
• Simferopol / Ukraine : Referendum on the status of Crimea . According to later information from the Russian news agency RIA Novosti , 96.77% of the voters - corresponding to 1.233 million votes - are in favor of the reunification of Crimea with Russia with the rights of a subject of the Russian Federation ; the turnout was 83.1%.
• Yabrud / Syria : In the Syrian civil war , government troops take the city of Yabrud near the border with Lebanon . So far the city has been a stronghold of the al-Nusra Front .

Monday 17th March 2014

• Antarctica : US scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found direct evidence of cosmic inflation for the first time at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station using the BICEP2 telescope to measure cosmic microwave background radiation : an echo of the Big Bang around 14 billion years ago.
• Maimana / Afghanistan : At least 15 people died in a car bomb in a suicide attack on a market in Faryab province .
• Minamibōsō / Japan : In the collision of the two container ships Beagle III ( Panama ) and Pegasus Prime ( South Korea ) in the Uraga Strait in Tokyo Bay , both are severely damaged. The ship Beagle III, loaded with steel coils, sinks. A Chinese sailor is killed.
• Moscow / Russia : The Russian Federation recognizes the Republic of Crimea , which has split off from Ukraine and declared independent, as a sovereign state . The transitional government of Ukraine announced that it would never recognize this step and that Crimea would continue to be part of its national territory.
• Southern Orkney Islands / British Antarctic Territory : The British ecologist Pete Convey , together with the scientists of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), brings a 1500 year old moss plant of the species Chorisodontium aciphyllum back to life from the permafrost soil after a few weeks.

Tuesday March 18, 2014

Rally in support of Crimea's accession to Russia in Moscow on March 18, 2014

• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court finally rejects several constitutional complaints and litigation proceedings against the permanent European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European Fiscal Compact . "Despite the commitments entered into, the budgetary autonomy of the German Bundestag is adequately preserved," said the Federal Constitutional Court.
• Moscow / Russia : Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and politicians from Crimea and the city of Sevastopol sign a treaty to annex the Republic of Crimea to Russia. Putin previously gave a speech on the subject .
• New Orleans / USA : In the Operation Round Table, Homeland Security is digging an international child porn ring from an online network. They arrest 14 suspected operators who sell their goods in the US, Australia , Belgium , UK , Canada and New Zealand .
• Simferopol / Ukraine : During the Crimean crisis there was an exchange of fire at a military base of the Ukrainian armed forces in Simferopol, in which, according to the spokesman for the Defense Ministry, Vladislav Selesnjow, the Ukrainian soldier SV Kakurin died. Interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenjuk said, "Russian soldiers have started shooting at Ukrainian army personnel and that is a war crime." Police spokeswoman Olga Kondrashova claims that a member of the "Self-Defense Forces" (pro-Russian militia) was also killed. This is said to be a previously unidentified sniper.
• Sonoyta / Mexico : Outside the village of Sonoyta, near the Mexican-US border, seven people are shot dead and an eighth injured in an ambush. The police assume a conflict between rival drug trafficking gangs, the victims are attributed to the Sinaloa cartel .

Wednesday March 19, 2014

• Catanzaro / Italy : In an operation led by public prosecutor Nicola Gratteri and Guardia di Finanza lawyer Franco Roberti, the Carabiniere smashes a drug ring of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta operating in nine European countries . They confiscate two tons of cocaine in several countries and execute 24 arrest warrants. They also reveal the involvement of the Catholic Church in the actions of the Ndrangheta.
• The Hague / Netherlands : According to media reports, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) identified more than 50 deliveries by German companies to Syria between 1982 and 1993, which supported the development of the Syrian chemical weapons program. Companies from Russia , France and China were also involved in the development. Only on 21 August 2013 came during the Syrian civil war to poison gas attacks in the region ghouta . The OPCW also reports that after the last shipment from the port of Latakia on March 14 and 17, 2014, around 45 percent of the chemical weapons inventory has been removed from Syria for further destruction .
• Houston / USA : The Texas police freed 115 Latin Americans from the hands of human traffickers in a major raid and confiscated several weapons.
• Kars / Turkey : Shortly after his release, employee Veysi Erim in the state statistics institute (TÜIK) kills six of his colleagues and himself, including the institute director Mehmet Tolon, after being taken hostage for several hours .
• Sevastopol / Ukraine : In the event of several actions by pro-Russian security forces, the abandonment of three military bases of the Ukrainian armed forces is forced. In addition to the bases in Bakhchysarai and Nowooserne , the naval headquarters in Sevastopol is also taken. Some Ukrainian soldiers have already defected. The Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian Navy , Vice Admiral Serhiy Hajduk , is temporarily arrested.
• Paris / France : The Court of Cassation rejects the appeal of the former stock exchange trader Jérôme Kerviel and confirms the prison sentence of five years, including two years on probation. The court decides, however, that the proceedings for the compensation claims must be reopened.
• Strait of Sicily : The Marina Militare announces that within two days it had picked up around 1,800 refugees , mainly from Syria , the Palestinian territories and Eritrea , in several boats that had set sail from North Africa .
• Taipei / Republic of China (Taiwan) : Around 200 students and civil rights activists stormed the Legislative Yuan (Parliament) and are occupying it in protest against a trade agreement with the People's Republic of China that is up for ratification .

Thursday March 20, 2014

The Hotel Serena in Kabul

• Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag resolves to set up a committee of inquiry to deal with the NSA surveillance affair . CDU member Clemens Binninger is the designated chairman of the eight-person body .
• Brussels / Belgium : Summit of the European Council with the heads of state and government of the European Union (EU). The heads of state and government agree to abolish banking secrecy for foreigners.
• Jalalabad / Afghanistan : At least 18 people die when the Taliban storm the police station in the Nangarhar region .
• Düsseldorf / Germany: The administrative court dismisses Annette Schavan's lawsuit against the revocation of the doctorate by the University of Düsseldorf .
• Kabul / Afghanistan: At least 13 people, including the four perpetrators, died in an attack by four underage Taliban fighters on the Serena Hotel . As early as January 14, 2008, there was an attack on the luxury hotel, in which six people died from suicide bombers.
• London / United Kingdom : The Crown Prosecution Service sentenced the three G4S - NO Terry Hughes, Colin Kaler and Stuart Tribelnig to several years in prison for manslaughter. The three defendants were responsible for the violent death of Jimmy Mubenga in 2010 .

Friday March 21, 2014

• Ankara / Turkey : At the instigation of the government of the politically under pressure Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan , the telecommunications authority Bilgi İletişim ve Teknolojileri Kurumu (BTK) has announced the blocking of access to the short message service Twitter .
• Bangkok / Thailand : The Thai Constitutional Court declares the early parliamentary elections of February 2, 2014 to be invalid.
• Berlin / Germany : The German federal government suspends all armaments projects with Russia . In addition, arms exports to Russia are no longer approved for the time being. This also includes a modern combat training center for Rheinmetall Defense units with an order value of 100 million euros. The system should be installed in Mulino .
• Berlin / Germany: Equal Pay Day is celebrated in Germany. This day of action, which takes place on different days in different countries, draws attention to the income differences between men and women .
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union and Ukraine sign the political part of the joint association agreement .
• Injan / Iraq : Twelve people died in a bomb attack and later shooting on the headquarters of the Iraqi Police Brigade, including Brigadier General Ragheb al-Omari .
• Nairobi / Kenya : The Kenyan parliament passes a law on polygamy with a majority of male MPs . The female MPs leave the plenary to protest against the vote. A veto right for women previously provided for in the draft law has been deleted.
• Rostock / Germany : The Rostock public prosecutor's office opens investigations against several organic farms in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for incorrectly declared organic eggs.
• Salah ad-Din / Iraq : A car bomb exploded in front of the Joint Base Balad military base in the Salah ad-Din region , killing 12 people and injuring 13 others.
• Vienna / Austria : At a special meeting the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) decides to send an observer mission to Ukraine . Up to 500 observers are to collect information on the security situation in Ukraine (excluding Crimea) and the protection of minorities on the ground by September 2014.

Saturday 22nd March 2014

• Cincinnati / USA : After the state had legalized gay marriage the day before , the appeals court ( Michigan Supreme Court ) forbids same-sex marriage again.
• Belbek military airbase / Ukraine : Russian troops with armored vehicles take the Ukrainian air base in Crimea after an expired ultimatum. The commander of the military base, Colonel Jurij Mamchur, is arrested. A Ukrainian soldier is shot injured.
• Conakry / Guinea : The Ministry of Health has announced that a wave of disease that has been rampant in the south of the West African country since February, and by then 59 fatalities, is an outbreak of the Ebola fever caused by the virus of the same name . This was the result of studies by French scientists.
• Kitebere / Uganda : After an accident , a refugee ferry sinks on Lake Albert , on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo , killing at least 108 people.
• Malé / Maldives : Parliamentary elections are held in the Maldives.
• Moscow / Russia : The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation officially announces the takeover of military control over the Crimea . A total of 147 Ukrainian military installations were previously under Russian control and the Black Sea Fleet has taken over 54 of a total of 67 ships of the Ukrainian naval forces .
• New York / USA : The New York Times newspaper and the German magazine Der Spiegel report on the infiltration of computer networks in the People's Republic of China by the US National Security Agency (NSA). From the documents of the whistleblower Edward Snowden the NSA is said to have spied on the former President Hu Jintao , the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, banks and telecommunications companies. Including telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei , based in Shenzhen, from 2009 .
• Zurich / Switzerland : In a comparison with the US regulator Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) as conservator of the mortgage lender Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to agree Credit Suisse to pay 885 million US dollars . This will settle claims from two lawsuits for false or incomplete information in the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) valued at approximately $ 16.6 billion between 2005 and 2007.

Sunday March 23, 2014

Slipped slope in Oso, USA

• Holmenkollen / Norway : The multiple world and Olympic champion Andrea Henkel ended her active career with a tenth place in the overall ranking of the Biathlon World Cup . The winner of the competition was the Frenchman Martin Fourcade in the men and Kaisa Mäkäräinen from Finland in the women.
• Kessab / Syria : On the border with Syria, a shot F-16 -Kampfflugzeug the Turkish Air Force , a Syrian military plane type MiG-23 near the Syrian province of Latakia from. The pilot was able to save himself with the ejector seat.
• Oso / USA : After heavy rains, a mudslide fell in Oso , a small community in Snohomish County, Washington state. Eight people are killed. 35 houses are completely destroyed by the avalanche.
• Salzburg / Austria : FC Red Bull Salzburg secured the championship plate of the Austrian Football Championship 2013/14 with a 5-0 win against SC Wiener Neustadt eight rounds before the end of the season .

Monday March 24, 2014

World Forum Convention Center, The Hague, during the Nuclear Security Summit

Spontaneous summit of the group of seven

• Al-Minya / Egypt : After two days of trial, a criminal court sentenced 529 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood to death, including chairman Muhammad Badi'e . 153 of the convicts are already in custody, the others are convicted in absentia. You are believed to have been involved in the murder of the Matay District Deputy Police Chief, Mostafa El-Attar, in al-Minya during the riots .
• Brussels / Belgium : With an agreement by the EU finance ministers, the banking secrecy of foreigners between the member states ends . The EU interest tax law is unanimously tightened.
• The Hague / Netherlands : Start of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), an international conference of heads of state and government on security measures in the handling of radioactive material. At the invitation of US President Barack Obama , there will also be a meeting of the G7 countries on the sidelines of the nuclear safety summit. The annexation of Crimea will ban Russia from the format and the world economic summit will be a meeting of the “Group of Seven” and the representatives of the European Union again for the foreseeable future .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : At the general assembly of the German Football League (DFL), 24 of 36 clubs in the Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga speak out against the introduction of goal-line technology .
• Kiev / Ukraine : A telephone conversation between the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko ( AVV ) and the former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine , Nestor Shufritsch ( PR ), was tapped on March 18, 2014 at 11 p.m. (time zone unknown) published on the Internet platforms YouTube and LiveLeak . In it, Tymoshenko expressed himself, translated during the Crimean crisis , as follows: "I would assert all my connections and let the whole world rise so that only burnt-out soil remains from Russia" and "I am ready myself to pick up a submachine gun [ ...] to make these dogs and their leader cold ”. Tymoshenko confirms the conversation and apologizes for her obscene remarks.
• Reida / Yemen : 20 people die in an attack by Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on a Yemeni border post to Saudi Arabia , in Hadramawt province .
• Washington, DC / USA : The Washington Post reports on the relocation of four CV-22 Osprey VTOL transporters and the dispatch of 150 Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) soldiers to Uganda . The soldiers are to support the search for the war criminal and leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (" Resistance Army of the Lord", LRA), Joseph Kony .
• Vienna / Austria : The camera that recorded the Apollo 15 moon landing is being auctioned at the WestLicht Photographica Auction in the Westlicht gallery for 550,000 euros. The manager of the electronics group Yodobashi Camera , Terukazu Fujisawa, was awarded the contract.

Tuesday March 25, 2014

• Burbank / USA : The Walt Disney Company buys YouTube multi-channel network maker studios for $ 500 million .
• Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 15 members of the electoral commission die in a series of attacks on election offices for the upcoming presidential election on April 5th .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court ruled after a lawsuit by the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hamburg on the approval laws and resolutions of the states to the State Treaty on Broadcasting in the United Germany and sees because of the excessive state influence in the composition and resolution of the Supervisory bodies of the Second German Television (ZDF) consider this incompatible with the Basic Law . In the ZDF board of directors and in the ZDF television council, the proportion of politicians and "people close to the state" must be reduced from the current 44 percent to a third.
• Madrid / Spain : The Spanish Constitutional Court declares the independence referendum scheduled by the Catalan regional government for November 9, 2014 to be inadmissible. In addition, a declaration of sovereignty passed by the Catalan Parliament on January 23, 2013 is unconstitutional and therefore void.
• Munich / Germany : FC Bayern Munich celebrates its 24th Bundesliga championship seven game days before the end of the season .
• Silicon Valley / USA : Facebook buys optical equipment manufacturer Oculus VR for 2 billion US dollars .
• Voinjama / Liberia : After Guinea , Ebola is spreading to the province of Lofa County in neighboring Liberia; at least five people die.
• Berlin / Germany : On this day, the CDU / CSU has been involved in the federal government for a total of 44 years, 5 months and 25 days, thus overtaking the government participation of the previous record holder FDP. One day later, Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) overtook the previous record holder Richard Stücklen (CSU) in terms of membership in the Bundestag (41 years, 3 months and 13 days).

Wednesday March 26, 2014

• Ankara / Turkey : The administrative court in the Turkish capital Ankara decides that the government's order to block the Twitter short message service, implemented by the responsible regulatory authority Telekomünikasyon İletişim Başkanlığı'nın (TİB), is illegal and must therefore be temporarily suspended.
• Vatican City : Pope Francis accepts the resignation offered by Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst as Bishop of Limburg .

Thursday March 27, 2014

• Ankara / Turkey : Telekomünikasyon İletişim Başkanlığı'nın (TİB) blocks access to YouTube . The background to this is that a recording of a conversation was published on the video portal in which Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu discussed the possibility of direct intervention in the Syrian civil war on the basis of a false pretext with high-ranking state officials .
• Astana / Kazakhstan : The European football association UEFA decides to introduce a new competition for national teams, the UEFA Nations League . It is to be played for the first time in 2018/2019 and from then on every two years.
• Augsburg / Germany : The Augsburg public prosecutor returns the painting “Sitting Woman” by Henri Matisse from the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt to the granddaughters of the Parisian art dealer Paul Rosenberg .
• Baltimore / USA : The stolen work of art "Banks of the Seine" by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is being returned to the Baltimore Museum of Art after more than 60 years .
• Bangui / Central African Republic : 20 people die in a hand grenade attack at a Christian funeral.
• Berlin / Germany : In the Messe Berlin is music award Echo awarded.
• Manila / Philippines : President Benigno Aquino and the leader of the Islamic Liberation Front of the Moros , Murad Ebrahim , sign a peace treaty that will put an end to decades of fighting for the independence of the Bangsamoro region . It provides for the establishment of an autonomous region in the disputed area.
• New York City / USA : Stack's Bowers auction house is auctioning the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize medal to Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas for $ 1.1 million.
• Beijing / China : The People's Republic of China is buying 70 Airbus aircraft, 27 A330s and 43 A320s for its fleet .
• Washington, DC / USA : Nine senior officers of the 341st Missile Wing of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base are dismissed for violating their supervisory duties due to a fraud scandal involving fraudulent test certificates. The officers are responsible for the nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles of the type Minuteman III responsible. According to internal investigations, up to 100 soldiers are said to have saved solutions for a monthly routine check on cell phones and passed them on to colleagues. The unit's commander, Colonel Rob Stanley, has submitted his resignation.

Friday March 28, 2014

• Abadiyah / Israel : During a raid by the Mishteret Yisrael against the illegal trade in antiques in the West Bank ( Judea ), the authorities discover eleven ancient bone boxes. The 2000 year old ossuaries were decorated with figures and had the name of the deceased engraved on them, which, according to Jewish tradition , had been buried.
• Brussels / Belgium : The North Atlantic Council has appointed former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as the new NATO Secretary General . On October 1, 2014, Stoltenberg will take over from Anders Fogh Rasmussen .
• Cologne / Germany : The German Aerospace Center awakens the comet lander " Philae ".
• Manaus / Brazil : 15 people die in a collision between a minibus and a truck. The state of Amazonas ordered a three-day mourning period following the accident.

Saturday March 29, 2014

• Al-Hasakah / Syria : After six months of kidnapping, reporter Javier Espinosa and his photographer Ricardo García Vilanova, the newspaper El Mundo, are released from the captivity of the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq . The two Spanish journalists were kidnapped on September 16, 2013 by ISIS, an al-Qaeda- affiliated group in Tal Abyad .
• Bratislava / Slovakia : Runoff election for the 2014 presidential election in Slovakia between Prime Minister Robert Fico ( SMER ) and the non-party challenger Andrej Kiska . Kiska wins the runoff election with 59.4 percent of the vote.
• Chicago / USA : The Italian architect Pier Carlo Bontempi receives the 2014 Driehaus Prize for traditional architecture .
• London / United Kingdom : In England and Wales the law on opening marriage for same-sex couples comes into force.

Sunday March 30, 2014

• Abuja / Nigeria : In a revolt among Boko Haram members and other prison inmates in the Aso Rock State Security Service prison , at least 21 people die.
• Ankara / Turkey : The 2014 local elections in Turkey will take place.
• Athens / Greece : The Greek Parliament approves a number of reform laws , including a. for the liberalization of labor markets and the recapitalization of banks.
• Bavaria / Germany : The runoff elections for the 2014 municipal elections will take place in Bavaria , including those for the mayor's offices in Erlangen , Munich , Regensburg and Würzburg .
• Khanty-Mansiysk / Russia : Former world chess champion Viswanathan Anand wins the candidates' tournament for the 2014 world chess championship and thus the right to challenge current world champion Magnus Carlsen . The final of last year's World Cup will be reissued .
• Chalet Hamdan / Israel : During excavations in the Carmel Mountains near the Kebara Cave , archaeologists discovered the bones of a rhinoceros around 170,000 years old .
• Yuvacık / Turkey : At least 8 people die and 14 others are injured in rioting in front of the polling stations for local elections in the provinces of Hatay and Şanlıurfa .

Monday March 31, 2014

Francesco Guardi's painting Palace stairs

• Beirut / Lebanon : The previous metropolitan and patriarchal vicar for the east of the USA, Cyril Afrem Karim, is elected as Ignatius Aphrem II as Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch .
• Berlin / Germany : German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is his Polish counterpart Radosław Sikorski that the invasion of Poland in 1939 by the Nazis from the National Museum Warsaw stolen paintings palace staircase by Italian artist Francesco Guardi back.
• Berlin / Germany : After the presentation of the UN world climate report AR5, the German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks (SPD) reaffirms the German climate target of reducing CO ₂ emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 and has announced an immediate program for climate protection.
• The Hague / Netherlands : The International Court of Justice in The Hague forbids the Japanese government to continue whaling in the Antarctic .
• Eastleigh / Kenya : In a series of attacks by Al-Shabaab , six people died in front of a mother-child clinic and two restaurants , and at least 25 others were injured, some seriously.
• Cholm / Afghanistan : 18 people died in two attacks in the provinces of Kunduz and Sar-i Pul . One attack targeted the politician and local police chief Mohammad Omar Aqtash, who was not injured.
• Paris / France : One day after the poor performance of the Socialist Party (PS) in the local elections, the French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and his government resign. The previous Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls, is to become the new Prime Minister.
• Tel Aviv-Jaffa / Israel : Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ( Kadima ) is sentenced by the Tel Aviv District Court for bribery in office and corruption .
• Winnipeg / Canada : Presentation of the Juno Awards at the MTS Center in Downtown Winnipeg .
• Yokohama / Japan : The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sees dramatic climate risks in its fifth assessment report . CO ₂ emissions and rising temperatures will therefore also increase the risk of conflict, famine and flooding in the coming decades.

See also

• Nekrolog March 2014 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in March
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in March

Web links

Japan in March 2014

Commons : March 2014  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

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65. ^ Israel shells Hezbollah post in retaliation over blast of March 14, 2014
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