Portal:Current events/2010 March 18

March 18, 2010 (Thursday)

The Sudanese government signs a ceasefire deal with a small Darfur rebel group, Liberation and Justice Movement. (Al Jazeera)
Nigeria recalls its ambassador to Libya after Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi suggests the country be partitioned into two separate Christian and Muslim nations. (BBC) (Modern Ghana) (Al Jazeera)
Proposed international trade bans on polar bears and bluefin tuna are rejected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. (Reuters) (Global Times) (BBC)
Former Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Sean FitzPatrick is arrested and has his home searched under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at his home in Greystones, County Wicklow. (RTÉ) (The Times) (Sky News) (France24) (The New York Times)
Current Bishop of Derry Séamus Hegarty is named as one of those involved in a "secret deal" in the case of a woman who says she was sexually abused for ten years from the age of eight. (The Belfast Telegraph) (RTÉ) (The Guardian) (BBC) (The Times)
An official report released after five years of research by the Dresden Historians' Commission states a reduced figure of as many as 25,000 people died in the 1945 bombing of Dresden. (BBC) (USA Today) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo is to be extradited to the U.S. following a ruling by a Guatemalan criminal court. (BBC)
A Thai farm worker in Israel is killed by a rocket fired from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory of Gaza, according to the Israeli military. (The New York Times) (Al Jazeera)
Turkey arrests around 20 people as it investigates an alleged attempted coup d'état. (The Guardian)
Charges occur in The Gambia's attempted coup d'état to overthrow President Yahya Jammeh. (BBC)
Released kidnapped child Sahil Saeed returns home to Manchester in England. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
French photographer Sophie Ristelhueber wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. (BBC)