Portal:Current events/2008 March 13

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• Darfur Conflict: Chad's President Idriss Déby and Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir meet in Senegal to sign the Dakar Agreement, the sixth peace agreement in five years. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7293933.stm (BBC News)]
• The Canadian House of Commons extends the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan until 2011. [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/03/13/motion-confidence.html (CBC)]
• The body of Mar Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul who was kidnapped in Iraq on February 29, is found in a shallow grave close to the city. [https://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSRAT00361720080313 (Reuters)]
• The price of gold reaches $1000 per troy ounce for the first time. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7294040.stm (BBC News)]
• Serbian President Boris Tadić disbands parliament and calls an early general election for May 11. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7293574.stm (BBC News)]
• Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008: Geraldine Ferraro resigns from the Clinton campaign after making comments that "if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position." [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/us/politics/13ferraro.html (The New York Times)]
• The U.S. dollar, after repeatedly testing 100 yen in Asian dealings and early European action, breaks through to touch 99.75, its lowest level since November 1995. [https://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUST24480320080313 (Reuters)]
• Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart experience some of their warmest weather of record for this season as result of an Australian autumn heatwave. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/environment/mercury-rises-for-mad-march/2008/03/10/1205125821753.html (The Age)]
• Leaders of the European Union meet in Brussels, Belgium with climate change and energy security dominating the agenda. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7293436.stm (BBC News)]
• Turkish prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya asks the Constitutional Court of Turkey to ban the ruling Justice and Development Party for anti-secular activities. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7297390.stm (BBC News)]

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