Portal:Current events/2010 March 10
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March 10, 2010 (Wednesday)
- Interreligious riots in Jos, Nigeria:
- Nigerian soldiers open fire on a crowd after curfew in Jos, killing two people, days after Muslim-Christian riots in the area left more than 200 dead including dozens of children (The Hindu)
- Nigeria charges with murder 49 of the 200 people it has arrested so far following the recent massacre of civilians near Jos. (BBC)
- Britain, France and the EU support U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's condemnation of Israeli expansion of settlements in occupied territory. (BBC)
- Burma's newly announced second law relating to the 2010 general election bars anyone with a criminal conviction from participating in a political party, effectively barring Aung San Suu Kyi. (Al Jazeera) (Straits Times) (CNN)
- Three men are detained in relation to the theft of the corpse of former Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos. (BBC)
- Australia and Indonesia sign an agreement to combat people smuggling. (news.com.au)
- Dulmatin, the alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings, is confirmed dead in a police raid in Pamulang, Jakarta, by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a state visit in Australia. (ANTARA News) (CNN) (BBC)
- Aid worker Alicia Gamez, captured in Mauritania in 2009 by a group affiliated with Al Qaeda and taken to Mali, is released. (BBC) (IOL) (Houston Chronicle) (CNN)
- Boris Berezovsky is awarded £150,000 in England's High Court and wins his libel case in relation to the 2006 poisoning to death of Alexander Litvinenko. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (Sky News)
- A man wrongly accused of being child murderer Jon Venables goes into hiding after becoming the target of a hate campaign on the internet. (The Daily Telegraph)
- The birth of a live elephant at Taronga Zoo is hailed as a "miracle" that will "completely rewrite the elephant birth textbooks" after he was thought to have died inside his mother's womb. (BBC)
- Forbes magazine publishes its 2010 list of billionaires, replacing Bill Gates with Carlos Slim as the world's wealthiest person. (Forbes)