Portal:Current events/2013 March 18

March 18, 2013 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Syrian civil war:
- Fighter jets from the Syrian Air Force fire rockets into northern Lebanon with no casualties reported. (CNN)
- The Syrian Opposition claims that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons in an attack on their forces in Aleppo. (US News & World Report)
War in Somalia:
- A car bombing in the center of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, kills at least 10 people and injures 20 others. (BBC)
Terrorism in Pakistan:
- A suspected militant suicide bombing at a court and prison complex in the Pakistani city of Peshawar kills at least 4 people and injures 47 others. (BBC) (The Guardian)
Nigerian Sharia conflict:
- A series of explosions kill at least 25 people in a bus park in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

International relations

Law and crime

M23 Movement leader Bosco Ntaganda surrenders himself at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, having been wanted by the ICC since 2006 on war crimes charges. (AP via USA Today) (The Guardian) (The New York Times)
Six men accused of raping a Swiss woman tourist appear in an Indian court. (Bloomberg)
The Sun newspaper apologizes for accessing private information on a stolen mobile phone belonging to Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh. (BBC)
James Seevakumaran, a 30-year-old student at the University of Central Florida, pulls the fire alarm and plans to attack the school. Instead, after brandishing a gun at another student, he commits suicide in his dorm in Orlando, Florida, United States. The entire campus is evacuated when improvised explosive devices are found in the room. (Los Angeles Times) (AP via Fox News)
The United States FBI states that they know who carried out greatest art heist in American history at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. (Fox News)

Politics and elections

Religion

Sport