Portal:Current events/2018 March 30
March 30, 2018 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- A bomb targeting police in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, kills three and injures five. (Geo News)
Disasters and accidents
- A bus carrying migrant workers from Myanmar catches fire near Bangkok, Thailand. 20 died and one is injured. (Evening Standard)
- Stansted Airport in the United Kingdom is evacuated after a bus catches fire outside the main terminal. (The Telegraph)
- A hot air balloon hits a tree near Sydney, Australia, wounding 16. (Sky News)
- Updated predictions suggest derelict Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will crash to Earth over the weekend. (CNET)
- An overloaded bus carrying migrants from Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan crashes into a light pole on the Igdir-Kars highway in Turkey and catches fire. A second bus hits ejected passengers. At least 17 die and 36 are wounded. (The Times of Israel)
- Clashes at the Israeli-Gazan border kill at least 14 Palestinians and wound over 1,100. (The Times of Israel)
- An overloaded bus blows a tyre near Bhanjyang, Nepal and crashes, killing at least two and wounding dozens. A riot follows. (ABC)
Law and crime
- Alcohol licensing laws of Ireland
- Ireland lifts a 90-year ban on the sale of alcohol on Good Friday. (BBC)
- Reactions to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
- Russia gives the United Kingdom one month to reduce its diplomatic missions' sizes to mirror those of the Russian ones in Britain. (The Telegraph)
- Russia expels 59 diplomats from 23 nations. (Geo News)
- Aftermath of the Orlando nightclub shooting
- The widow of Omar Mateen is found not guilty of assisting her husband in the attack. (CNN)
- A roadside bomb in Syria kills one UK and one U.S. soldier. Five more are injured. It is the first death of a UK soldier fighting ISIL. (The Telegraph)
- Ukraine says it expelled two Iranians earlier this year for attempting to buy a Kh-31 missile in Kiev, in violation of United Nations sanctions. (The Daily Beast)
- Khalifa Sall, mayor of Dakar, Senegal, is given a five-year sentence for fraud. (BBC)
- Protestors take to the streets in Faisalabad, Pakistan, following the rape and murder of a local university student. (Geo News)
- Police in Germany announce the detentions of four Syrian nationals earlier this week on suspicion of arson and attempted murder over a mosque firebombing in Ulm. The mosque is used by Turkish Muslims and police say the attack "may have been politically motivated". (The Local)
Science and technology
- A major US study concludes trans youth have a much lower risk of suicide when they are permitted to use their chosen names. (Eureka Alert)