Portal:Current events/2019 March 16

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March 16, 2019 (2019-03-16) (Saturday)

Disasters and accidents

A fire at a refugee camp inNigeria kills eight and leaves 15,000 homeless. The residents are people displaced by ongoing conflict withBoko Haram.(Reuters)
2019 Midwestern U.S. floods
- Flooding over large portions ofNebraska leave one dead and two missing with over 900 people using emergency shelters. Many roads and highways in the state are also closed.(USA Today)

Law and crime

Terrorism in Ireland,Terrorism in the United Kingdom
- The village ofDerrylin, close to the border betweenNorthern Ireland and theRepublic of Ireland, is sealed off after a suspicious object is found. The object is later determined to be “nothing untoward”.(Irish Times)
Colombia's migration authority detains and expels an alleged spy working forCuba's Intelligence Directorate.(El Tiempo)

Politics and elections

Yellow vests movement
- Protests againstFrench President Emmanuel Macron enter a fourth month inParis. Tear gas is fired at protestors throwing stones at riot police in front of theArc de Triomphe, news stands are torched at theChamps-Élysées, and a branch ofBanque Tarneaud is burned. More than 80 arrests are made. Businesses around the Champs-Élysées are looted.(Reuters)
Trial of Catalonia independence leaders,Catalan independentism
- Thousands of demonstrators protest inMadrid against the trial of Catalan independence leaders and the ongoing detention of some of them. Local police say around 18,000 protestors were involved; organisers claim almost 120,000.(BBC News)

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