Portal:Current events/2018 March 27

March 27, 2018 (2018-03-27) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Terrorism in the United Kingdom
  • Convicted terrorist Umar Haque, who indoctrinated children he was teaching in London so that he could use them to commit attacks, is jailed for life at the Old Bailey and will not be eligible for parole for 25 years. (The Evening Standard)
  • Paul Moore is jailed for life for using his car to attack Muslims following a string of terror attacks in 2017 linked to Islamic extremism. He must serve a minimum of 20 years. (The Guardian)
• NATO says the Afghan Air Force dropped its first laser-guided bomb on a Taliban compound on March 22. NATO have trained the Afghans in use of the equipment. (ABC)
• The government of Turkey states that eleven Kurdish militants have been killed near its Syrian border, and two soldiers were killed by an explosion in Syria. (US News)

Disasters and accidents

• History of autonomous cars
  • Arizona suspends all testing of Uber self-driving cars following a fatal accident last week. (The Verge)
  • U.S. graphics processing unit producer Nvidia suspends all its tests of self-driving cars. (The Verge)
• 2018 Kemerovo fire
  • President Vladimir Putin visits the scene and declares "criminal negligence" responsible for the high death toll. Protestors, some calling for Putin's resignation, demonstrate outside the local government headquarters. (BBC)
• Two ships collide in the Great Belt strait between Funen and Zealand, near Romsø, Denmark. One catches fire. (The Local)
• 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race
  • A crewman who fell overboard from a competitor vessel is declared lost at sea. (The Telegraph)
• The search area for nine crewmen missing since March 21 from a capsized sand dredger off the coast of Malaysia is expanded to 560 square nautical miles. The Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency is requested to assist in the operation. (The Malay Mail)
• The United States National Transportation Safety Board launches a probe into a Tesla electric car crash and fire in California. The NTSB says it will investigate issues firefighters had trying to determine how to respond. (Bloomberg)
• The South Korean Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board issues its final report on a near-collision between an Airbus A310 and a Boeing 737 on a runway in Cheongju. The Board blames miscommunication. (The Aviation Herald)

International relations

• China–North Korea relations
  • A train carrying a North Korean diplomatic delegation leaves Beijing station. Reports suggest that it included supreme leader Kim Jong-un, on what would be his first known travel outside North Korea since assuming office in 2011. (Reuters)
• Reactions to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
  • NATO and Australia expel Russian diplomats. (The Independent), (The Guardian)
• The Netherlands recalls a diplomat from Turkey after local newspapers accused him of spying. (Dutch News)

Law and crime

• Manchester Arena bombing
  • A report reveals firefighters were prevented from attending the scene of the bombing for two hours. The report makes more than 50 recommendations. (BBC)
• Censorship in Spain
  • A court issues an order shutting down a website that uses extracts from Don Quixote to recreate the book Farina. Farina, an investigation of drug trafficking, is the subject of a freedom of speech debate after a court halted sales ahead of a libel case. (The Washington Post)

Politics and elections

• Egyptian presidential election, 2018
  • Voting enters the second day. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Discoveries of exoplanets
  • A new exoplanet named K2-229b is discovered. Studies show that the planet resembles Mercury due to the fact that it is hot, metallic, and dense. (Health Thoroughfare)

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