Time: 10:34 UTC   |   Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025

• Bernard Ebbers, ex-CEO of Worldcom, is indicted on three counts of conspiracy for his alleged role in that company's $11 billion accounting scandal in 2002. Worldcom's CFO Scott Sullivan pleads guilty and is expected to cooperate with prosecutors against Ebbers. [1]
• Multiple explosions hit Shiite shrines in Baghdad and Karbala on the Shia festival of Ashura. Up to 140 people are reported killed. [2]
• Iraq gets a Bill of Rights, including guarantees of freedom of religion and press. [3]
• The US declares its 2,000-man force to have leadership over all foreign military forces in Haiti. Bush chose not to wait for the UN Security Council but chose to intervene immediately to "restore order" in the hemisphere's poorest country. [4]
• The European Union imposes additional 5% tariffs on a wide range of goods imported from the United States, such as honey, paper, and nuclear reactors. The tariffs were sanctioned by the World Trade Organization in 2002 as punitive measures after a ruling declaring that United States tax law unfairly favors US-based companies. [5]
• The European Space Agency's Rosetta space probe is successfully launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket on a mission to investigate the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. [6]

• The People's Republic of China puts in place new rules for the trading of derivative securities by financial institutions, part of a broader process by which China has in recent years sought to integrate its own economy with finance capitalism around the world. The China Banking Regulatory Commission receives praise from the New York-based International Swaps & Derivatives Association. [7]
• Jean-Bertrand Aristide claims that his resignation as President of Haiti was forced and that he was kidnapped by American forces and forced to leave the country against his will. United States Secretary of State Colin Powell rejects the accusation. [8]
• The UK Conservative Party withdraws from the Butler Inquiry into intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, claiming the way its terms of reference have been interpreted is too narrow. The Liberal Democrats claim that this was obvious from the beginning. [9] [10] [11]
• President of Russia Vladimir Putin names Mikhail Fradkov as his new prime minister. [12]
• Marc Dutroux, alleged Belgian child molester and murderer of four girls, goes on trial. [13]
• Same-sex marriage in the United States: President of the United States George W. Bush urges passage of a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman, as the only way to stop "municipal and judicial activists" from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. "If we are to prevent the meaning of marriage from being changed forever, our nation must enact a constitutional amendment." John Kerry denounces the amendment as "toying" or "tampering" with the Constitution of the United States for partisan advantage. [14]
• The winners of the BAFTA Games Awards are announced. [15]
• Several hundred United States, French and Canadian troops are deployed to Haiti. [16]
• Palau National Congress' debate about whether to propose several constitutional amendments to Palau voters or ask them to consider more changes at a Constitutional Convention ended without an accord. [17]

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