Portal:Current events/2010 March 29
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March 29, 2010 (Monday)
- 15 people, including 2 journalists, are arrested by Israel during a police attack on a protest near Bethlehem. (The Muslim News)
- Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, announces it will boycott the upcoming general elections in Burma. (BBC) (AP)
- Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at Moscow Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury, killing at least 36 with the death toll expected to rise. (RIA) (AP) (Russia Today) (RIAN)
- The stern of the South Korean warship which exploded on Friday with 46 crewmen still missing is located and the military is expected to attempt a dive. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Yonhap)
- Maule, Chile, is rattled by a 6.1 magnitude aftershock on Monday 08.43 a.m. AEDT (5:43 p.m. Sunday local time). (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Xinhua)
- A Rio Tinto Group executive is jailed for 10 years in China. (RTÉ)
- FARC releases into the jungle a soldier it kidnapped just under a year ago. (BBC)
- Ireland's rail line between Galway and Limerick reopens for the first time in 34 years. (RTÉ)
- More than 300 southern right whales, mostly young calves, have been discovered dead off Argentina's Patagonian coast in the last five years. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- In architecture, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, cofounders of the firm SANAA, win the 2010 Pritzker Prize. (BBC News)
- Nine members of the Hutaree militia are arrested in the United States on allegations of a plot to kill policemen then to attack the funerals, in preparation for a war against all levels of American government. (CNN)
- A patent on two human genes is struck down by a judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. (The New York Times) (Newsweek)