Portal:Current events/2018 March 29
March 29, 2018 (Thursday)
International relations
- 2018 inter-Korean summit
- Authorities announce that the summit between North Korea and South Korea will take place on April 27, 2018. (USA Today)
- Reactions to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
- The United States Consulate in Saint Petersburg is closed and 60 U.S. diplomats expelled from Russia as a retaliatory measure to the closing of the Russian Consulate in Seattle. (BBC)
Law and crime
- An attempted prison break and subsequent rioting and fires at a police station in Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela, results in at least 68 people dead. Two women who were visiting inmates are thought to be among the dead. (BBC)
- Terrorism in Italy
Accidents
- A boat capsizes in Nawabshah, Pakistan. Six die and two more are missing. (Geo News)
Sports
- 2018 Major League Baseball season
- The Major League Baseball season for 2018 kicks off. (Hollywood Life)