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This article covers breaking news and events in March 2016.

Daily events

Tuesday March 1, 2016

• Ballymena / United Kingdom : At the request of the prosecution, the trial of Seamus Dealy , who is on trial for 29 murders in the bomb attack in Omagh , Northern Ireland , is suspended due to insufficient prospects of success.
• Tunis / Tunisia : After Algeria and Morocco agreed to take back Algerian and Moroccan asylum seekers who had been rejected in Germany and who pretended to be Syrians, among others, more quickly, Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid also declared himself willing to take back rejected Tunisian citizens as soon as possible. This was preceded by talks with Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière .
• Washington, DC / United States : Super Tuesday with area codes in Alabama, Alaska (Republicans only), American Samoa (Democrats only), Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia.

Wednesday March 2, 2016

• Qaraghandy / Kazakhstan : After 340 days on the International Space Station (ISS), the American astronaut Scott Kelly and the Russian cosmonaut Michail Kornijenko return to Earth. The completed annual mission should, among other things, show the effects of weightlessness on the human body over a longer period of time and thus provide insights for a future trip to Mars .
• Sumatra Barat / Indonesia : A 7.9 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter at a depth of around ten kilometers near the Mentawai Islands shook parts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra , but according to the authorities it did not cause any damage. A tsunami warning issued after the quake is canceled after a short time. For the time being, there is no concrete information on possible fatalities.

Thursday March 3, 2016

EU Council President Tusk warns economic refugees against fleeing to Europe

• Athens / Greece : EU Council President Donald Tusk openly calls on all refugees who only want to enter Europe for economic reasons to “not risk their lives and money” and “not to come to Europe”. In addition, he rejects the “process of waving through” in Europe. The background to the call was a meeting with the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras .
• New York / United States : After eight years of construction, the World Trade Center train station, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava , is partially opened.
• Wellington / New Zealand : Start of the second flag referendum (until March 25, 2016) on the new flag of New Zealand .

Friday 4th March 2016

• Aden / Yemen : Islamist terrorists raid an old people's home operated by the Roman Catholic Church and kill 16 people.
• Apia / Samoa : The ruling Human Rights Protection Party (HPRP) wins the parliamentary elections by a huge margin .
• Brussels / Belgium : EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos gives the Greek government a two-month ultimatum to protect the external border of the European Union . According to Avramopoulos, the EU Commission will be presented with a balance sheet on May 12, 2016, in which the border protection of the external borders by Greece will be assessed.
• Istanbul / Turkey : Turkish police forces storm the editorial building of the government-critical daily Zaman after an Istanbul court has appointed the Turkish state as its trustee. The editor-in-chief Abdülhamit Bilici is dismissed. The European Union and the United States criticize the procedure and demand that the freedom of the press, as enshrined in the country's constitution, be respected .
• Zurich / Switzerland : The Swiss National Bank (SNB) announces a record loss of 23.3 billion francs (21.5 billion euros) for 2015 . The reason for this is the appreciation of the franc against the euro, which led to exchange rate-related losses and was justified in January 2015 with the depreciation of the euro against the US dollar. In addition, there was a valuation loss of 4.2 billion Swiss francs on the unchanged gold inventory of 1040 tons.

Saturday 5th March 2016

Opening of the third session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in the People's Republic of China

• Bangkok / Thailand : 67 people are injured in the explosion of a natural gas powered water taxi on the Khlong Saen Saep Canal.
• Bratislava / Slovakia : In the parliamentary elections , the ruling social democratic Smer has to accept a significant loss of votes. Kotleba - Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko is the first right-wing extremist party among the eight parties that have entered parliament .
• Beijing / China : For the opening of the third annual meeting of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) with almost 3,000 delegates, Prime Minister Li Keqiang presents a new five-year plan and has reduced the country's growth forecast for 2016 to 6.5 percent. China's budget deficit is also expected to rise to 2.18 trillion Renminbi (Yuán) (equivalent to 304 billion euros).

Sunday March 6, 2016

• Aleppo / Syria : In a part of Aleppo controlled by the Syrian government, 14 people are killed and over 40 injured in rocket and mortar attacks. Nine civilians die in the north of the city occupied by Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG). Despite the ceasefire between the various conflicting parties that has existed since February 27, 2016, Aleppo is repeatedly the focus of armed conflicts, mostly of unclear origin.
• Hilla / Iraq : At least 47 people die and 65 others are injured in a suicide attack with a tanker truck at a checkpoint.
• Istanbul / Turkey : The Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge between the villages of Garipçe and Poyraz has been completed and is the third bridge that spans the Bosporus near Istanbul.
• Jakarta / Indonesia : Fifth extraordinary summit of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on violence in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and the status of Jerusalem.
• Porto-Novo / Benin : First round of the presidential election. Boni Yayi , who has been in office since 2006, cannot run again after two terms in office.
• Tehran / Iran : A spokesman for the Prosecutor General Gholamhossein Mohseni-Eschei announces that the oil oligarch Babak Sandschani and two of his accomplices, who have been in custody since December 30, 2013, have been sentenced to death . Sandschani allegedly embezzled funds from the state-run National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and helped former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad circumvent the international oil sanctions against Iran.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : Local elections in Hesse 2016 .

Monday March 7, 2016

• Ben Gardane / Tunisia : An attack by Libyan Islamists on a military base near the border town occupied by Tunisian soldiers kills at least 45.
• Brussels / Belgium : Summit and special meeting of the European Council with Turkey to fully and rapidly implement the EU-Turkey Action Plan to strengthen cooperation in refugee aid and migration management.
• Dhaka / Bangladesh : The Central Bank of Bangladesh announced the loss of up to US $ 100 million in an act of cybercrime on February 5, 2016 from its account at the US Federal Reserve Bank in New York City. According to the AFP news agency, part of the cash reserves were transferred to Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
• Washington, DC / United States : The US Department of Defense announces the deaths of up to 150 fighters from the Islamist Al-Shabaab militia . Accordingly, they are killed in an air strike by US forces on an Islamist training camp near Jowhar at the weekend. The Kenyan air force has already carried out further attacks on three terrorist bases near Jilib , in which, according to the military, numerous militiamen are killed.

Tuesday March 8, 2016

• Braunschweig / Germany : Due to suspicion of fraud and legal violations, the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office is expanding its investigation into the VW emissions scandal from six to 17 suspects. Meanwhile, the VW works council is addressing the increasing risk of job cuts that could result from the impending fines in the United States and the associated cost-saving measures by the Volkswagen Group .

Wednesday March 9, 2016

• Budapest / Hungary : Interior Minister Sándor Pintér imposed a state of crisis for the country due to the refugee crisis and ordered more soldiers and police officers to secure the border . After Slovenia and Serbia , Macedonia is also closing its borders completely to refugees.
• Laschkar Gah / Afghanistan : At least 18 police officers are killed in an attack by the Taliban on the governor's seat in Helmand province .
• Seoul / South Korea : The AlphaGo computer program beats a professional Go player of the highest dan (9p) for the first time .
• South Tarawa / Kiribati : The presidential election in Kiribati 2016 will take place.
• Warsaw / Poland : The Constitutional Court declares the law adopted by the Sejm on December 22, 2015 to reform and reorganize the Constitutional Court to be unconstitutional. The law introduced by the ruling Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) stipulated the quorum of the Constitutional Court of 13 instead of the previous nine judges and the requirement for the legal validity of every decision was changed to a necessary two-thirds majority instead of a simple majority as before.

Thursday March 10, 2016

Lee Sedol

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : In order to ensure higher inflation and an economic upswing, the European Central Bank (ECB) is reducing the key interest rate from 0.05 to zero percent for the first time.
• Seoul / South Korea : The computer program AlphaGo beats Go master Lee Sedol in the second of five scheduled games .

Friday March 11, 2016

• Brussels / Belgium : The justice ministers of the EU member states agree on tightening and partially renewing the anti-terror laws . The new regulations will also come into force across the EU and are intended to simplify the fight against international terrorism .

Saturday March 12, 2016

• Seoul / South Korea : The AlphaGo computer program beats Go-Master Lee Sedol in the third of five scheduled games and thus achieves the overall victory.
• Warsaw / Poland : Tens of thousands demonstrate in the capital against the course of the ruling national-conservative Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS), which is criticized for its planned restructuring of the constitutional court in the European Union, among other things because of “endangering the rule of law and democracy ”.

Sunday March 13, 2016

• Ankara / Turkey : At least 37 people die in a car bomb attack near the centrally located Kızılay Square and over 120 others are injured, some seriously. After the attack, the Turkish Air Force launched attacks on positions of the Kurdish PKK in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in Iraq .
• Berlin / Germany : Super Election Sunday with the state elections in Baden-Württemberg , the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt : The Alternative for Germany (AfD) surprisingly achieved double-digit election results across the board . The strongest parties, but dependent on coalition partners, are the Greens (Baden-Württemberg), the SPD (Rhineland-Palatinate) and the CDU (Saxony-Anhalt).
• Grand-Bassam / Ivory Coast : More than 22 people, including at least four foreign visitors, are killed in an attack by radical Islamists on three hotels in the resort. Among the victims is the German cultural manager and director of the Goethe Institute in Abidjan , Henrike Grohs . A group close to Al-Qaeda is committed to the act.

Monday March 14, 2016

Illustration of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

• Baikonur / Kazakhstan : The first Proton rocket of the ExoMars space probe project carried out by the European Space Agency (ESA) in cooperation with the Russian space agency Roskosmos starts on schedule. On board is the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter with the lander (Schiaparelli) for exploring life on Mars .
• Reynosa / Mexico : In the border town with the United States , a large-scale deployment of Mexican soldiers and federal police officers leads to violent exchanges of fire with members of the Gulf cartel gangs . At least ten people are killed.

Tuesday March 15, 2016

• Hajjah / Yemen : At least 41 people are killed and 75 others injured in Saudi air strikes as part of Operation Restoring Hope . A market in Mustaba district in Hajjah governorate is also hit .
• Moscow / Russia : The Russian armed forces in Syria begin with the partial withdrawal of the troops with several fighter planes announced the day before by President Vladimir Putin . However, Russia wants to continue the fight against terrorism. The Tartus naval base, which is located in a civil war country, and the Hmeimim military airfield are also to continue to be used. Since September 2015, Russia has been participating in the Syrian conflict alongside Syrian President Bashar al-Assad , mainly with air strikes against the Islamic State (IS) and other opposition groups .
• Puyo / Ecuador : During a military exercise in the Pastaza province , an Arava- type transport plane crashes in the jungle. 19 paratroopers, both pilots and a mechanic, died.
• Uccle / Belgium : During a Belgian-French anti-terror operation near the Brussels sub-municipality of Forest , there is a violent exchange of fire in which a suspected terrorist is killed and four police officers are injured. Two other suspects are said to have been arrested after raids.

Wednesday March 16, 2016

• Ankara / Turkey : Three days after a suicide attack in the capital , President Recep Erdoğan calls on the Turkish parliament to revoke the immunity of five members of the opposition pro-Kurdish Halkların Demokratik Partisi (HDP), including its deputy chairman Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ , for " propagandistic. " Activities ”. In addition, several academics and lawyers who campaigned for the banned Workers' Party PKK or are alleged to have sympathized with it are arrested.
• Maiduguri / Nigeria : Two female suicide bombers kill at least 22 people and injure 14 others in a mosque in the suburb of Umarari around five kilometers south of the capital Borno .
• Peshawar / Pakistan : A bomb attack on a bus carrying government employees kills 15 passengers and injures 35 others.
• Puerto Madryn / Argentina : The Argentine coastal ship Prefecto Derbes (GC-28) of the PNA (Prefectura Naval Argentina) sinks the Chinese ship Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010 because of illegal fishing in the exclusive economic zone off the coast of Patagonia . Despite repeated requests, it was not turned on and was then shot at. 28 crew members are rescued by another Chinese fishing trawler. Four people, including the ship's captain, are arrested by Argentine security forces.

Thursday 17th March 2016

• Kobanê / Syria : Syrian Kurds proclaim the "Autonomous Region of Northern Syria" for Rojava (Western Kurdistan) in the north of the country . This includes the enclaves Kobanê, Afrîn and parts of the al-Hasakah governorate . The federation is dominated by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the People's Defense Units (YPG). This step is criticized internationally and rejected by all other civil war parties.
• Brussels / Belgium : At a two-day summit of the European Council, the heads of state and government, chaired by Donald Tusk, are discussing the next steps to deal with the refugee crisis and an agreement on the agreement with Turkey for the full and rapid implementation of the EU-Turkey action plan .

Friday March 18, 2016

• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union and Turkey agree on an agreement on the refugee crisis .
• Molenbeek-Saint-Jean / Belgium : During an anti-terrorist operation in the Brussels suburb, the Belgian police arrested the Islamist terrorist Salah Abdeslam , who is the main suspect of the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris .
• Palmyra / Syria : The Russian Air Force in Syria flies several attacks against positions of the Islamic State (IS) in support of a reconquest offensive by the Syrian armed forces and Hezbollah .

Saturday 19th March 2016

Iain Duncan Smith

• Al-Arish / Egypt : 13 Egyptian police officers are killed in a mortar attack by the Islamic State (IS) on the Safa checkpoint.
• Istanbul / Turkey : At least five people are killed in a suicide attack in a shopping street in the center of the city and another 20, including foreign nationals, are injured.
• London / United Kingdom : British Labor Secretary Iain Duncan Smith resigns. In a sharp letter he blamed Treasury Secretary George Osborne for his decision. He could not support his plans to cut social benefits for the disabled - especially since the household also benefits high-income taxpayers.
• Machmur / Iraq : A US marine is killed and others injured in a rocket attack by the Islamic State (IS) on a base in the autonomous region of Kurdistan .
• Beijing / China : State visit by Federal President Joachim Gauck to China.
• Rostov-on-Don / Russia : A Boeing 737-800 of the low-cost airline Flydubai ( flight 981 ) crashes when approaching Rostov-on-Don Airport . None of the 62 people on board (55 passengers, seven crew members) survived the crash .

Sunday March 20, 2016

• Astana / Kazakhstan : The president's party, Nur Otan , wins the parliamentary elections by a huge margin.
• Brazzaville / Republic of the Congo : Denis Sassou-Nguesso will be re-elected in the presidential elections.
• Dakar / Senegal : The constitutional referendum is passed with 63 percent of the vote. The changes include more civil rights as well as reducing the presidential term.
• Dharamsala / India : The exiled Tibetans elect a new government in exile in the second ballot . On April 1, Lobsang Sangay announced that he had been re-elected Prime Minister.
• Niamey / Niger : In the runoff election for the office of president, incumbent Mahamadou Issoufou wins . The opposition is boycotting the election.
• Porto-Novo / Benin : In the preliminary results of the runoff election for the office of president published on March 23, Patrice Talon prevailed with over 64 percent of the vote against his competitor Lionel Zinsou with 35 percent of the votes. Talon will succeed the outgoing President Boni Yayi from April 2016 .
• Poso / Indonesia : A Bell 412EP helicopter of the Indonesian armed forces crashes during an anti-terrorist operation against the jihadist group around Abu Wardah . 13 soldiers die in the process.
• Praia / Cape Verde : The opposition party Movimento para a Democracia wins the parliamentary elections.
• Zanzibar City / Tanzania : Ali Mohamed Shein is re-elected as president of the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar in the parliamentary and presidential elections, which were held under heavy security precautions . The ballot, originally held on October 25, 2015, had been declared invalid due to election fraud.

Monday March 21, 2016

• The Hague / Netherlands : The International Criminal Court (ICC) finds former Vice President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Jean-Pierre Bemba , guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity . The Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC), which he commands , reportedly tortured and killed numerous men, women and children in the neighboring Central African Republic in 2002 and 2003 . The sentence will not be determined until a later date.
• Townsville / Australia : Russell Reichelt, Director of the Marine Park Authority of the Great Barrier Reef (GBRMPA), triggers level 3, the highest alert level for "regionally serious coral bleaching". According to this, up to 50 percent of the corals in the northern regions of the Great Barrier Reef are affected.

Tuesday March 22, 2016

A video surveillance image of the three alleged IS attackers at the airport in Brussels

• Al-Mukalla / Yemen : At least 40 terrorists are killed in the Hajr district in air strikes by the US armed forces on a training camp run by the Islamist organization al-Qaida on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
• Brussels / Belgium : More than 30 people are killed in terrorist attacks in Brussels as a result of several explosions in the city center and at the airport, while others are seriously injured. The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) is committed to the attacks.
• Garoowe / Somalia : Government soldiers from the autonomous state of Puntland report on anti-terrorist offensives in the Suuj Valley near Garacad and near the town of Dhinowda in the Nugaal region . 167 militiamen of the Islamist Al-Shabaab are killed.
• Monrovia / Liberia : After the death of two people from the Ebola virus in Guinea , Liberia closes the border with the neighboring country as a precautionary measure.
• Space : Comet P / 2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS), which was only discovered in January 2015, with a diameter of around 110 meters, approaches the earth to a distance of three and a half million kilometers. A second comet, 252P / LINEAR , discovered in April 2001, passed Earth the day before at a distance of around five million kilometers.

Wednesday March 23, 2016

• Bergkamen / Germany : The listed textile company Steilmann SE , to which Adler Modemärkte AG , based in Haibach, also belongs in the majority , announces its insolvency and will file for insolvency.
• Rovaniemi / Finland : Due to the refugee crisis, Finland and Russia agree to close the joint border between Lapland and Murmansk Oblast for half a year . Only Finns, Russians and Belarusians are allowed to pass the border crossings at the Finnish towns of Salla and Raja-Jooseppi .
• Şemdinli / Turkey : The Turkish air forces attack again positions of the Kurdish Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK) in the province of Hakkari and in the governorate of Erbil in Iraq . Five Turkish security forces were previously killed in several PKK bomb attacks.

Thursday March 24, 2016

• Baghdad / Iraq : The Iraqi armed forces begin Operation Al-Fatah and are supporting an offensive to recapture the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which is controlled by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) , through air strikes and special units of the US armed forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga .
• The Hague / Netherlands : The International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) pronounces the former President of the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Radovan Karadžić , guilty and convicted of genocide in connection with the Srebrenica massacre , war crimes and crimes against humanity him to 40 years imprisonment.
• La Jolla / United States : Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI) announce the creation of the synthetic bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn3.0 . With 473 genes, the organism has the minimum number of genes it needs to carry out all vital processes.
• Moulins / France : On Friday night, twelve Portuguese citizens from Switzerland were killed in a collision between a Mercedes Sprinter minibus and a truck on Route nationale 79 near the municipality of Montbeugny.

Friday March 25, 2016

• Aden / Yemen : At least 25 people, including 14 soldiers, are killed in three suicide attacks by the Islamic State (IS) at checkpoints of the Yemeni armed forces in Adan Governorate .
• Baghdad / Iraq : A suicide bomber of the Islamic State blows himself up in Al-Asrija near Al-Iskandariya after a football game in a military facility. At least 30 people are killed and up to 60 others injured.
• Havana / Cuba : The British rock band The Rolling Stones give an open-air concert in socialist Cuba on the open space Ciudad Deportiva, which is free for around 450,000 visitors. Before that, over 500 tons of equipment had to be brought to Cuba for the concert. It is the first rock concert in the country.
• Istanbul / Turkey : The Cumhuriyet trial against the journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül of the daily Cumhuriyet , who reported in May 2015 about arms deliveries by the Turkish intelligence service Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı (MİT) to Islamists in the Syrian civil war , begins. The process is to be carried out in camera .
• Palmyra / Syria : With their offensive against the Islamic State, with the support of the Russian Air Force, the Syrian armed forces are gaining increasing ground. A Russian officer is killed on the ground.
• Schaerbeek / Belgium : In an anti-terrorist operation by the army and police against suspected Islamist terrorists, raids lead to two explosions. A man is arrested. Suspects in connection with the terrorist attacks on March 22, 2016 in Brussels had already been arrested in numerous cities in Belgium, Germany and France .
• Severo-Kurilsk / Russia : The Russian armed forces increase their military presence on the Kuril Islands claimed by Japan and give the laying of land-based anti -ship missiles of the type 3K60 Bal (NATO code: SS-C-6 Sennight) and K-300P Bastion-C (NATO code: SS-C-5 Stooge) and small reconnaissance drones of the Eleron-10SV type.
• Wellington / New Zealand : 56.6 percent of the voters in the referendum on the future flag of New Zealand vote for the retention of the previous national flag

Saturday 26th March 2016

• Santiago de Chile / Chile : Health authorities confirm the first case of a sexually transmitted infection with the Zika virus .

Sunday March 27, 2016

• Dublin / Ireland : Ireland commemorates the Easter Rising against British rule 100 years ago with one of the largest military parades in the country's history, wreath-laying ceremonies and minutes of silence .
• Lahore / Pakistan : The Islamist Taliban splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar carried out a suicide attack near a children's playground in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park , in which more than 70 people were killed and more than 300 injured. The target of the attack were Christians who celebrated Easter in the park.
• Palmyra / Syria : With the support of the Russian Air Force, the Syrian armed forces recapture the city ​​occupied by the Islamic State (IS).

Monday March 28, 2016

• Kabul / Afghanistan : A Taliban attack on the Afghan parliament during a session fails.

Tuesday March 29, 2016

• Larnaka / Cyprus : An Airbus A320 of the state airline Egypt-Air with 64 people on board is hijacked on the domestic flight with flight number 181 from Alexandria to Cairo and lands in Cyprus. The kidnapping can be ended without a fatality.

Wednesday March 30, 2016

• Bucharest / Romania : The Court of Appeal in Bucharest (Curții de Apel Bucureşti) sentenced Ioan Ficior in absentia to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity . Ficior worked in the People's Republic of Romania from 1958 to 1963 in a correctional facility for political prisoners in Periprava in the Tulcea County . At least 103 prisoners died under his leadership. The defense announces an appeal to the Supreme Court and Cassation Court (Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție).
• Naypyidaw / Myanmar : With Htin Kyaw from the social democratic National League for Democracy (NLD), a civilian president takes office for the first time since 1962. The party leader of the NLD, Aung San Suu Kyi, takes on four ministerial posts because she has been denied the office of president by a passage in the constitution. The armed forces command, however, continues to control the Ministry of the Interior with the secret service, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Border Protection.
• San Salvador / El Salvador : The government under Salvador Sánchez Cerén has issued a state of emergency for seven prisons for two weeks in order to curb the influence of the members of the Mara Salvatrucha . Around 300 detained gang members are transferred to a maximum security prison.
• Stuttgart / Germany : The High Command of the US Armed Forces in Europe (EUCOM) announces that from February 2017 to deter aggressive Russia in Eastern Europe and elsewhere an Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) with around 4200 soldiers and several armored vehicles rotating at NATO - To station the east flank as part of the European Reassurance Initiative (ERI).

Thursday March 31, 2016

The fourth US Nuclear Safety Summit (photo taken April 1, 2016).

• Diyarbakir / Turkey : A bomb attack on a police bus kills seven police officers from the special operations department and injures 27 other people.
• Kolkata / India ; At least 21 people died when the Ganesh Talkies overpass bridge under construction at Girish Park collapsed . 80 other people are injured. Up to 100 other people are buried when the bridge collapses.
• Nicosia / Cyprus : After drawing on a total of 6.3 billion of the nine billion euros made available by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and one billion euros by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Republic of Cyprus can leave the “ euro rescue package ” after three years .
• Washington, DC / United States : The fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit begins . Host Barack Obama warns of the dangers of nuclear terrorism and also refers to the interest of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) in radioactive material.

See also

• Nekrolog March 2016 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

Hamburg in March 2016

Commons : March 2016  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published March 2016  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Omagh bombing: case against only remaining suspect collapses. The Guardian , March 1, 2016, accessed March 1, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Tunisia also wants to take back refugees more quickly. (No longer available online.) Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , March 1, 2016, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved March 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ISS astronauts return to earth after 340 days in space. RP Online , March 2, 2016, accessed March 3, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Return after 340 days in space. tagesschau.de , March 2, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Sumatra earthquake: tsunami warning lifted - no deaths. Spiegel Online , March 2, 2016, accessed March 2, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Strong earthquake off Sumatra. Zeit Online , March 2, 2016, accessed March 2, 2016 . 
7. ↑ EU Council President calls on economic refugees: “Don't come to Europe”. Focus Online , March 3, 2016, accessed March 6, 2016 . 
8. ^ New train station for New York. Deutsche Welle , March 3, 2016, accessed March 4, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Samoan ruling party set for landslide victory in general elections: electoral office. Australian Broadcasting Corporation , March 5, 2016, accessed March 12, 2016 . 
10. ↑ EU sets Greece deadline for border security. Der Standard , March 4, 2016, accessed March 4, 2016 . 
11. ^ Critical newspaper under state control. tagesschau.de, March 4, 2016, accessed on February 6, 2016 . 
12. ^ Concern for freedom of the press in Turkey. Deutsche Welle, March 6, 2016, accessed March 6, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Press release by the SNB: 2015 annual results of the Swiss National Bank. (PDF) Swiss National Bank , March 4, 2016, accessed on March 4, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Dozens injured in explosion on a water taxi in Bangkok. Berliner Morgenpost , March 5, 2016, accessed on March 5, 2016 . 
15. ^ Slovakia: shift to the right after parliamentary elections. Kronenzeitung , March 6, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2016 . 
16. ↑ New five-year plan: China wants to achieve 6.5 percent growth. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , March 5, 2016, accessed on March 5, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Fourteen dead and dozens injured in 'terror' attack in Aleppo city: Syrian state tv. Reuters , March 6, 2016, accessed March 6, 2016 . 
18. ↑ 47 deaths in a suicide attack with car bomb in Iraq. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 6, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2016 . 
19. ↑ Third bridge over the Bosporus completed. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 6, 2016, accessed on May 20, 2016 . 
20. ↑ 605 DELEGATES ATTEND OIC EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT 2016 MINISTERIAL MEETING. (No longer available online.) The 5th Extraordinary OIC Summit on Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif, March 6, 2016, archived from the original on March 8, 2016 ; accessed on March 8, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ Benin elects a new president. Swiss radio and television , March 6, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2016 . 
22. ^ Oil billionaire Babak Zanjani sentenced to death (update 2). IRNA , March 6, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2016 . 
23. ↑ Islamists attack Tunisian military posts from Libya. Zeit Online , March 7, 2016, accessed March 8, 2016 . 
24. ↑ Bangladesh bank says hackers stole $ 100M from its New York Fed account. New York Post , March 7, 2016, accessed March 8, 2016 . 
25. ↑ KDF Fighter Jets Pound Al-Shabaab Three Bases Near Jilib Town In Somalia. intelligencebriefs.com, March 6, 2016, accessed March 7, 2016 . 
26. ↑ US airstrike kills more than 150 at Somalia terrorist camp, military says. Washington Post , March 6, 2016, accessed March 7, 2016 . 
27. ↑ Public prosecutor is investigating other Volkswagen employees. Zeit Online, March 8, 2016, accessed March 8, 2016 . 
28. ↑ Wolfsburg: Fear of job cuts at VW. Spiegel Online , March 8, 2016, accessed March 8, 2016 . 
29. ↑ Hungary declared a state of crisis. Deutsche Welle, March 9, 2016, accessed March 9, 2016 . 
30. ^ Afghanistan Taliban attack on district in Helmand province. Deutsche Welle, March 9, 2016, accessed March 9, 2016 . 
31. ↑ Asian board game: Computer beats Go pro in South Korea for the first time. Focus Online , March 9, 2016, accessed March 10, 2016 . 
32. ↑ Poland's constitutional tribunal: judicial reform is unconstitutional. Deutsche Welle , March 9, 2016, accessed March 9, 2016 . 
33. ↑ ECB cuts key interest rate to zero percent for the first time. Zeit Online , March 10, 2016, accessed March 10, 2016 . 
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