Portal:Current events/2018 March 26
March 26, 2018 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Turkish military operation in Afrin
- Turkish forces claim to have found a mass grave containing the remains of 59 of their fighters in Kucuk Meydan, Afrin, Syria. (Anadolu Agency)
Business and economy
- Economy of the United States
- U.S. firearms and ammunition manufacturer Remington Arms files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after amassing US$950 million worth of debt. (Bloomberg)
- Following a collapse of a farm and a large release of Atlantic salmon into the Pacific, the state of Washington bans the farming of Atlantic salmon in their territorial waters. (NPR)
- China launches an oil futures market in a bid to compete with oil benchmarks from Europe and the United States. (MarketWatch)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Kemerovo fire
- Witnesses and Russia's Investigative Committee say the Winter Cherry complex's exits were blocked and there were no alarms during the disaster. (BBC)
- US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211
- The death toll rises to 52 people as a survivor dies in hospital. (Khaleej Times)
- 2018 New York City Eurocopter AS350 crash
- The US National Transportation Safety Board releases a preliminary investigative report containing new information on the accident, in which five passengers drowned when they were trapped in the wreckage. (CNN)
- 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race
- A British yachtsman falls overboard from Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag. A search and rescue operation launches, with one ship diverting from over 400 nautical miles away. (BBC)
International relations
- Reactions to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
- Canada–Russia relations
- Canada expels four Russian diplomats citing solidarity with the United Kingdom following the attempted murder of a former Russian spy in the United Kingdom by a nerve agent. (Global Affairs Canada)
- Russia–United States relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump orders the closure of a Russian consulate in Seattle, Washington, and the expulsion of 60 Russian officials. (NPR)
- Russia–European Union relations
- Donald Tusk announces European Union nations have asked 30 Russian diplomats to leave. Germany, France, and Poland are among the EU nations to expel diplomats with other European countries including the Ukraine and Albania doing the same. (ITV)
- Canada–Russia relations
- European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker conclude talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The parties say they have been unable to agree on human rights issues but pledge to hold more talks. (The Financial Times)
Law and crime
- Crime in France
- French police detain two men in connection with the murder of an 85-year Holocaust survivor who was found in the burned remains of her apartment. The prosecutor's office is investigating if the killing was "motivated by the real or supposed adherence to a religion". (Reuters)
- Carbanak
- Spanish police in Alicante arrest the suspected leader of a bank hacking scheme believed to have stolen over €1 billion. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Politics and elections
- Egyptian presidential election, 2018
- The Egyptian electorate vote in their presidential election, with incumbent President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi facing only one opponent. (The Washington Post)
Science and technology
- Discoveries of exoplanets
- ArXiv publishes research that a gas giant may be orbiting a brown dwarf. The exoplanet, designated OGLE-2017-BLG-1522Lb, orbits its host at a distance of 0.59 AU and could be the first known gas giant to have formed inside the protoplanetary disk of a brown dwarf. (Phys.org)