Portal:Current events/2008 March 4

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• Brett Favre, quarterback of the Green Bay Packers announces his retirement from the NFL after 17 years.
• United States presidential election, Super Tuesday II:
• Arizona Senator John McCain wins the Vermont, Texas, Rhode Island, and Ohio Republican primaries, giving him enough delegates to be able to win the Republican Party nomination. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23463159/ (MSNBC)]
• Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee withdraws his candidacy. [http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/04/march.4.contests/index.html (CNN)]
• Illinois Senator Barack Obama wins the Vermont Democratic primary. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23463159/ (MSNBC)]
• New York Senator Hillary Clinton wins the Rhode Island, Ohio, and Texas Democratic primaries.[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4279807&page=1 (ABC News)]
• First Minister of Northern Ireland Ian Paisley announces his intentions to stand down from the post in May 2008 and, at the same time, resign as leader of the DUP, a party he has led for almost 40 years. [http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0304/paisleyi.html (RTÉ)]
• At least four people are killed and 14 injured in a suicide bombing at a naval college in the Pakistani city of Lahore. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7276518.stm (BBC News)]
• United States Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Dan Fried estimates that Kosovo will need about $2 billion in foreign aid to become economically viable, and says that the United States will participate in a major donors' conference on Kosovo in June. [https://www.reuters.com/article/europeCrisis/idUSN04479638 (Reuters)]
• India wins cricket's Commonwealth Bank Series in Australia. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7276474.stm (BBC Sport)]

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