Portal:Current events/2014 March 24

March 24, 2014 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Twenty soldiers are killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in eastern Yemen. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370:
- Chinese aircrew report seeing "suspicious objects" in the southern Indian Ocean while searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. (Courier Mail)
- Najib Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, announces that with information from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch, flight MH370 went down over the southern Indian Ocean with "all lives lost." (CNN)
The death toll from the Oso mudslide in the US state of Washington rises to fourteen with dozens of people unaccounted for. (AP via Yahoo! News)
The death toll from the Lake Albert boat disaster on March 22 rises to 107. (CNN)
A train overruns the buffers at Chicago O'Hare Airport station, injuring 33 people.(Chicago Tribune)

Health

An outbreak of Ebola virus which has killed at least 59 people in Guinea continues its spread, entering Liberia and threatens to spread to Sierra Leone. (Bloomberg)

International relations

The 2014 Nuclear Security Summit commences in The Hague, Netherlands. (Al Jazeera)
2014 Crimean crisis:
- The interim President of Ukraine Olexander Turchynov orders Ukrainian forces to withdraw from Crimea. (BBC News)
- UK Prime Minister David Cameron says the planned 40th G8 summit scheduled to be held in the Russian city of Sochi will not take place because of Russia's actions in Crimea. (BBC News)

Law and crime

Post-coup unrest in Egypt:
- A court in Minya, Egypt, sentences 528 supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi to death for a range of offenses including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property. It is the largest mass death sentence handed down in recent history anywhere in the world. (BBC) (The Independent)
A Chinese court jails a man for 18 months after he applied for permission to protest on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. (Al Jazeera)