Portal:Current events/2014 March 23
March 23, 2014 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Turkish F-16s shoot down a Syrian military aircraft for purportedly violating Turkish airspace. A Syrian Arab Republic spokesman denies this claim and says the aircraft was in Syrian airspace when it was shot down. (AP) (Al Arabiya)
- Two gunmen storm a Christian church in Kenya during a Sunday service, killing at least six people and wounding more than a dozen others. (Reuters) (ABC News Australia)
Disasters
- 2014 Oso mudslide:
- Eighteen people are still missing after a landslide Saturday in Oso, Snohomish County, in America's Washington state that has claimed at least three lives. (Yahoo! News)
Health
- The United Nations Children's Fund reports that an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that has so far claimed the lives of 59 victims has spread from southern Guinea to the capital Conakry. (AAP via News Limited)
Law and crime
- Shrien Dewani has his extradition date to South Africa set for 7 April to face court for the murder of Anni Dewani. (Sky News)
Politics and elections
- Elections in France:
- Voters in France go to the polls for municipal elections with candidates from the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement performing well. (AFP via NineMSN)[permanent dead link] (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan:
- Protesters opposed to the vote of the Cross-Strait Trade Agreement without a clause-by-clause review continue to occupy the Taiwanese parliament. Protesters attempt to occupy the nearby Executive Yuan as well. (FocusTaiwan)