Portal:Current events/2016 March 10

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
• Clashes between the Lebanese Army and jihadist militants near the village of Ras Baalbek in northeast Lebanon, close to the Syrian border, leaves one soldier and eight militants dead. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3486074/Nine-dead-Lebanese-army-clashes-jihadists.html (AFP via Daily Mail)]
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
• Dozens of militants are killed in fighting between rival Taliban factions in Afghanistan's western Herat Province. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/10/dozens-killed-clashes-rival-taliban-factions-afghanistan-herat (The Guardian)]

;Disasters and accidents

• Two days of heavy rain in the American state of Louisiana has caused at least three deaths and caused more than a thousand people to evacuate their homes. [http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/10/flooding-forces-more-than-1000-from-homes-in-louisiana.html (Fox News)]

;International relations

• United States–Venezuela relations
• Venezuela recalls its chargé d'affaires from its embassy in Washington, D.C. after U.S. President Barack Obama renewed a decree imposing sanctions on several top Venezuelan officials. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-usa-idUSKCN0WC029 (Reuters)]
• North Korea–South Korea relations
• North Korea fires two missiles into the Sea of Japan and announces its intention to liquidate all remaining South Korean assets on its territory. [https://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-says-liquidate-south-assets-joint-projects-025316445.html (AFP via Yahoo! News)]

;Law and crime

• Former Russian Press Minister Mikhail Lesin was found by an American investigation to have died of blunt force injuries in Washington, D.C. in November last year. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-mikhaillesin-idUSKCN0WC2W1?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews (Reuters)]
• A jury in a U.S. federal court in Scranton, Pennsylvania says that Cabot Oil must pay plaintiffs $4.2 million in damages that resulted from Cabot's fracking operations in the northeast part of that state. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pennsylvania-fracking-idUSKCN0WC2I8 (Reuters)]

;Politics and elections

• Three candidates are put forward to become President of Myanmar: Htin Kyaw and Sai Nyunt Lwin from the National League for Democracy and Khin Aung Myint from the military. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-10/myanmar-presidential-candidates-announced-htin-kyaw-frontrunner/7236790 (ABC News Australia)]
• The Irish Dáil Éireann (parliament) fails to elect a new taoiseach (Prime Minister) with incumbent Enda Kenny carrying on as a caretaker. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35765813 (BBC)]

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