Portal:Current events/2013 March 19

March 19, 2013 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

19 March 2013 Iraq attacks:
- A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq. (BBC) (Reuters) (CNN)
Kurdish–Turkish conflict:
- Two people are injured in explosions at Turkey's justice ministry and the headquarters of the governing AK Party in Ankara. (BBC)

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

A bus crash in the Indian state of Maharashtra kills at least 37 people and injures 14 others. (AAP via Herald Sun)
At least 16 people are dead after landslides in a mountainous area north of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. (BBC)

Law and crime

Saudi Arabia police arrest one Iranian, one Lebanese and 16 Saudis on charges of spying. (BBC)
An American man is sentenced to between five and ten years in prison for the murder of Irish tourist Nicola Furlong in Japan. (The Irish Times) (Irish Independent)
A suspect, Qari Abdul Saeed, is arrested in Pakistan for the 2002 beheading of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. (CNN) (NBC News)
In the U.S. state of Ohio, Thomas Lane receives three life sentences for the child murders at Chardon High School that he committed in February 2012 as a 17-year-old. (AP)
The United States Supreme Court holds in a 6–3 decision that the first-sale doctrine applies to the domestic sale of foreign copies of copyrighted work lawfully made abroad. (IP-Watch)
Benjamin Pierce Bishop, a civil defense contractor who works in intelligence, was charged with giving U.S. national security secrets his Chinese girlfriend. (AP via New York Post)

Politics and elections

In Ukraine, a fight breaks out during a session of the Verkhovna Rada over the use of the Russian language in politics. (Sky News) (Kyiv Post) (MSN)

Religion

Science and technology

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity extends evidence of water-bearing minerals when studying the rock Tintina. (BBC) (NASA) (JPL)
The United States Air Force successfully launches an Atlas V 401 rocket carrying a missile defense satellite SBIRS-GEO 2. (Space.com)
NASA publishes LRO images of the two craters on the Moon, where twin GRAIL probes ended their gravity-mapping mission in December 2012. (NASA) (Space.com) (BBC)

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