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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Arab Spring:
  • 2011 Syrian protests
  • Syria forces open fire on protesters in Daraa, witness says although other reports claim that they were firing shots in the air. [http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/syria-forces-open-fire-on-protesters-in-daraa-witness-says-1.352335 (Haaretz)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/28/us-syria-idUSTRE72N2MC20110328?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews (Reuters)]
  • Syria's VP says Assad will announce important decisions that will 'please the people' in the next two days. [http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/syria-forces-open-fire-on-protesters-in-daraa-witness-says-1.352335 (Haaretz)]
  • A Syrian government official says the state of emergency law is to be lifted. [http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/03/27/syria.unrest/?hpt=T2 (CNN)]
  • Two Reuters journalists arrested on Saturday in Damascus are released. [http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/28/uk-syria-reuters-idUKTRE72R3UG20110328 (Reuters)]
  • 2011 Libyan civil war
  • Opposition forces in the 2011 Libyan civil war attack Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte with disputed claims that they have captured it. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/201132681812362552.html (Al Jazeera)] [http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=214104&R=R3 (Jerusalem Post)]
  • Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard of the Canadian Forces Air Command is named to lead enforcement of the Libya no fly zone. [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-general-to-lead-enforcement-of-libyas-no-fly-zone/article1956477/ (Globe and Mail)] [https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/Canadian+general+take+over+NATO+Libya+mission/4503682/story.html (National Post)] [http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6072204&c=AIR&s=TOP (Defense News)]
  • The President of the United States Barack Obama gives a televised address on progress in the Libyan campaign. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2011/03/28/AFgQsppB_story.html (Washington Post)], [http://www.smh.com.au/world/why-we-are-in-libya-obama-20110329-1ce1e.html (Sydney Morning Herald)]
  • 2011 Yemeni protests
  • An explosion at a weapons factory taken over by Islamist militants in southern Yemen kills at least 121 people. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12881240 (BBC)] [http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=670666&publicationSubCategoryId=200 (Philippine Star)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • 2011 Bahraini protests
  • Bahrain rejects a mediation offer by Kuwait to resolve the country's political crisis. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/2011328111747469782.html (Al Jazeera)] [http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/28/uk-bahrain-kuwait-talks-idUKTRE72R2ZO20110328 (Reuters)]
  • Al Wefaq, the leading Shi'ite opposition party, claims that 250 people have been detained and 47 held in detention since the declaration of martial law. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/28/us-bahrain-arrests-idUSTRE72R41B20110328 (Reuters)]
  • 2011 Moroccan protests
  • Teachers plan to stage a nationwide strike demanding better benefits. [http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE72R0FH20110328 (Reuters)]
  • 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis:
  • Rebel forces loyal to presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara seize the town of Duékoué in western Côte d'Ivoire from government forces. [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-03/28/c_13802051.htm (Xinhua)]
  • A car bomb attack on a construction company in Afghanistan's Paktika Province kills at least 13 people and injures another fifty. [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/attack-on-construction-company-claims-15-lives/story-e6frg6so-1226029497350 (The Australian)]
  • Seventeen militants and three Russian security force members die in fighting in Ingushetia while two suspects in the Domodedovo International Airport bombing are arrested. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/03/201132819115552351.html (Al-Jazeera)]

;Arts and culture

  • A 2,500-year-old preserved human brain dating from the Iron Age is found in Heslington in the English city of York. [http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/28/2500-year-old-preserved-human-brain-discovered/?test=faces (Live Science via Fox News)]

;Business and economy

  • Qatar recognizes Libyan rebels as the representative of the Libyan people, after a deal to market crude oil. [http://www.euronews.net/2011/03/28/oil-down-on-libyan-rebel-gains/ (EuroNews)] [http://article.wn.com/view/2011/03/28/Qatar_recognises_Libyan_rebels_after_oil_deal/ (WorldNews.com)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721221051/http://www.qnaol.net/QNAEn/Local_News/Politics1/Pages/QatarRecognizesLibyanNationalTransitionCouncil.aspx (Qatar News Agency)]
  • Volkswagen recalls 71000 2011 model Jetta sedans due to a wiring problem. [http://www.detnews.com/article/20110328/AUTO01/103280394/1148/auto01/VW-recalls-71-000-’11-Jetta-models-over-wiring-problem (Detroit News)]{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

;Disasters

  • Fukushima I nuclear accidents
  • Radioactive seawater from the accidents travels further from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. [https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110328/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake (AP via Yahoo! News)]
  • Plutonium is found at five locations around the power plant. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110329092225/http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Radioactive-Plutonium-Found-in-Soil-Around-Damaged-Japanese-Nuclear-Plant-118779069.html (Voice of America)]

;International relations

;Law and crime

  • The appeal of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav begins. [http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011032848186/National-news/duch-appeal-to-begin-today.html (Phnom Penh Post)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20110402211324/http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_650148.html (Straits Times)]
  • The trial of Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi on corruption charges commences. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12877250 (BBC)]
  • A court in southern Vietnam sentences a zoo owner to three years imprisonment for selling the carcasses of dead tigers. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110402234932/http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_650210.html (Straits Times)] [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/3/28/apworld/20110328134411&sec=apworld (Malaysia Star)]

;Politics

  • Egypt is to hold parliamentary elections in September 2011. [http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE72R0I020110328?sp=true (Reuters)]
  • Barry O'Farrell is sworn as the Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales following Saturday's state election. [http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/new-nsw-premier-barry-ofarrell-and-deputy-andrew-stoner-sworn-in/story-e6frfku0-1226029293857 (News Limited)]
  • The Governor of the US state of Michigan Rick Snyder signs legislation lowering the period that jobless workers can claim state unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to 20 weeks. [https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110328/ap_on_bi_ge/us_unemployment_benefits_michigan (AP via Yahoo! News)]

;Sport

  • The captain of the Australia national rugby league team Darren Lockyer announces his retirement as at the end of the 2011 NRL season. [http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/darren-lockyer-announces-retirement-at-end-of-nrl-season/story-e6frfgbo-1226029373898 (Melbourne Herald-Sun)] [http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/darren-lockyer-to-call-it-quits-20110328-1ccsr.html (Brisbane Times)]
  • The opening date of the Nippon Professional Baseball season is deferred due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014616863_quakenergy28.html (Los Angeles Times via Seattle Times)]
  • French urban climber Alain Robert scales the worlds tallest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12888817 (BBC)][http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/29/watch-french-spider-man-climbs-worlds-tallest-building/ (Time)]

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