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- The Indonesian foreign ministry says 10 Indonesian nationals are being held hostage after their tug boat and coal barge was hijacked in Philippine waters. ISIL branch in the Philippines Abu Sayyaf is demanding a ransom. (AP)
- EgyptAir Flight 181
- A hijacked EgyptAir flight lands in Cyprus. All hostages have been released, and the hijacker has no evident ties to any terrorist organizations. (The Guardian)
- Corey Lewandowski, campaign manager for US presidential candidate Donald Trump, is charged with battery for allegedly grabbing Michelle Fields - a Breitbart News journalist - on March 8. (New York Times) (The Palm Beach Post)
- Transgender rights in the United States
- Dozens of chief executive officers of major U.S. technology, biotech, and financial companies urge North Carolina repeal a new state law preventing local governments from expanding protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. (AP via WBT)
- North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper (D) says he won't defend the new state law in court. This year, Cooper is the state Democratic Party's candidate for governor. Republican Senate Leader Phil Berger says the attorney general should resign if he won't defend the law. (AP)
- The NC Values Coalition, which worked to get Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance overturned by the state legislature, says hundreds of North Carolina businesses support the new state law, though fear retaliation if they make that support public. The coalition did list 17 businesses willing to be identified as supporting the new law. (AP)
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- A three-year-old girl is decapitated in an apparently random killing by a man with a cleaver in Taipei, Taiwan. The man was arrested shortly afterwards. (The Guardian)
- The United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. is on lockdown following reports of shots fired at the Capitol Visitor Center. The White House, in what appears to be an unrelated incident, was briefly locked down this afternoon. (CNN)
- FBI–Apple encryption dispute
- A U.S. federal district court, in a case filed by retailer Wal-Mart Stores. Inc., strikes down a Puerto Rican tax increase for on-island companies, with more than $2.75 billion in revenues that buy goods from off-island "related parties," because the levy clearly discriminates against interstate commerce. (Reuters)
- The United States Secret Service says only law enforcement officers will be allowed to have guns inside the Republican National Convention to be held in the Cleveland, Ohio, arena on July 18–21, 2016; responding to an online petition demanding Quicken Loans Arena revoke its ban on open carrying of firearms. (USA Today)
- The American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal file a federal lawsuit against a new North Carolina law that bars transgender people from choosing bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, arguing the measure is discriminatory and threatens individuals' personal safety. (Reuters)
- Ferguson unrest
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- British rock band The Rolling Stones performs in Havana, Cuba, playing an open-air free concert in the country, in what has been called a "historic moment." Western music used to be banned in Cuba as being "ideologically divergent." (The Guardian)
- Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro announces the film, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, will not be screened at the 2016 Festival as previously announced. “Grace [Hightower] and I have a child with autism and we believe it is critical that all of the issues surrounding the causes of autism be openly discussed and examined," Mr. De Niro said. "... (our) Tribeca Film Festival team and others from the scientific community ... do not believe (this film) contributes to or furthers the discussion (about autism) I hoped for," the actor/producer said. (USA Today)
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- Netflix acknowledges it's been slowing its video transmission on wireless mobile carriers around the world, including Verizon and AT&T, for five years to "protect consumers from exceeding mobile data caps." Last week, these carriers were accused of this. The company told The Wall Street Journal that T-Mobile or Sprint users weren't affected because, "historically those two companies have had more consumer-friendly policies." In May, Netflix plans to shift some of that control to viewers themselves. (C|net) (PC Magazine)
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- 2016 Brussels bombings
- Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw says two brothers of Belgian nationality, Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui, were responsible for yesterday's suicide bombings. Khalid bombed the subway station while Ibrahim bombed the airport, he added. A third suspect, who died at the airport, is identified as Najim Laachraoui, says De Standaard. A fourth suspect seen in the airport photo, who left a massive bomb at the airport that did not detonate, is unidentified and still at large. (UPI) (Los Angeles Times) (De Standaard)
- Van Leeuw says 31 people died and 271 are injured in the bombings. (UPI)
- Referring to the Brussels bombings, Poland abandons a pledge to shelter Syrian migrants under a European Union relocation agreement. (Reuters)
- Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), War on Terror
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Africa
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- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger
Americas
Asia
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- February
- March
- 4: Samoa, Fono
- 5: Slovakia, National Council
- 6: Benin, President (1st round)
- 9: Kiribati, President
- 20: Benin, President (2nd round)
- 20: Cape Verde, National Assembly
- 20: Republic of the Congo, President
- 20: Kazakhstan, Majilis
- 20: Niger, President (2nd round)
- 20: Senegal, Constitutional referendum
Upcoming
- April
- 6: Netherlands, EU referendum
- 8: Djibouti, President (1st round)
- 10: Chad, President (1st round)
- 10: Comoros, President (2nd round)
- 10: Peru, President, Congress
- 13: South Korea, National Assembly
- 13: Syria, People's Council
- 17: Italy, Oil drilling referendum
- 24: Austria, President
- 24: Serbia, National Assembly
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Recently concluded
- Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
- Brazil: Mensalão scandal
- Canada: Luka Magnotta
- China: Ji Jianye, Li Chuncheng, Jiang Jiemin, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Chen Baihuai, Zhou Yongkang, Gu Junshan
- Croatia: Ivo Sanader
- Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste, Mohamed Morsi
- Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff
- Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
- Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh
- Jordan: Abu Qatada
- Philippines: Joseph Scott Pemberton
- Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu
- Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Eston Kohver, Vladimir Kvachkov
- South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius
- Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya
- United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot, Adam Johnson
- United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Jesse Jackson Jr., Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Jodi Arias, Anas al-Libi, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Sheldon Silver
- International
Ongoing
- China: Yao Mugen, Guo Youming, Zhu Zuoli
- Germany: Beate Zschäpe
- Iran: Babak Zanjani
- Netherlands: Geert Wilders
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Jovito Palparan
- Romania: Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu, Relu Fenechiu, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
- Russia: Alexei Navalny
- South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
- United Kingdom: Rolf Harris
- United States: Dean Skelos
- International
Upcoming
- China: Wu Changshun, Ling Jihua
- Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
- Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- Spain: Lionel Messi
- United Kingdom: Max Clifford
- United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry
- International
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