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

• A new government of Serbia and Montenegro is presented for approval by parliament. [1]
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • A car in the Gaza strip, allegedly owned by a member of Hamas, is reportedly destroyed by a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft, killing three. [2]
  • A group of Israelis join a court challenge against the Israeli West Bank barrier out of concern it could turn their good Palestinian neighbors into deadly enemies. [3]

• Iraq: Bomb blasts kill 170 people at the Shi'a festival of Aashurah in Karbala.
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
  • Some Israeli gunboats fired at a number of Palestinian fishing boats inflicting severe damage to four of them before arresting one of the fishermen. [4]
  • Israeli soldiers killed the policeman Muhammed Abu Rajab as he stepped out of his home. The army that the man was not "wanted" and that "he was innocent", but claim the victim didn't heed army orders to stop. [5] [6] [7] [8]
  • The Palestinian Authority's prisoners affairs ministry states in its monthly statistical report that the number of Palestinian prisoners has risen to around 7,500. Of those 336 are children, 75 female and 943 in need of medical treatment. Of the 166 prisoners who died 41% died as a result of medical negligence while 18% died as a result of torture. [9] [10]
  • Israeli soldiers fired bullets and gas canisters at the main mosque in the Housan village in the Bethlehem district for the second day running. (The news item made no mention of Israeli reasons for the action, nor did it report any attempt to discover the reasons. It only accused Israel of "targetting Muslim worshipers". [11]
  • During a raid in the West Bank Israeli soldiers kill what they claim was an approaching armed gunman, Qaif Ofeh, 19, a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades as well as injuring a bystander. [12]
  • Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics reported 1,850 new housing units in the illegal Jewish settlements Israel built in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in 2003, up by 35 percent from the previous year. [13] [14]
• U.S. Democratic Presidential Nomination:
  • John Kerry wins the Super Tuesday primaries in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island and caucus in Minnesota, effectively clinching the nomination. Howard Dean wins in his home state of Vermont. John Edwards is expected to withdraw from the race.[15]
  • Scattered problems crop up with electronic voting systems.[16]
• Same-sex marriage in the United States:
  • Jason West, mayor of New Paltz, New York is charged with 19 criminal counts of solemnizing marriages without a license. If convicted, he faces up to a $500 fine and a year in jail on each count.[17]
  • Multnomah County, Oregon prepares to begin solemnizing same-sex marriages, after its attorney issues a legal opinion deeming such marriages lawful. [18]
• Exploration of Mars: NASA announces that Mars rover Opportunity landed in an area where "liquid water once drenched the surface". [19]
• 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. [20]
• Multiple explosions hit Shiite shrines in Baghdad and Karbala on the Shia festival of Ashura. Over 180 people are reported killed. A three-day long period of national mourning is announced. [21]
• Iraq gets a Bill of Rights, including guarantees of freedom of religion and press, in the form of the Law of Administering the Iraqi State for the Transitional Period. [22]
• The U.S. declares its 2,000-man force to have leadership over all foreign military forces in Haiti. President Bush chose not to wait for the UN Security Council but, instead, to intervene immediately to "restore order" in the western hemisphere's poorest country. [23]
• 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 U.S.-based companies. [24]
• 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. [25]

• Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie blasted ongoing Israeli extra-judicial executions of Palestinian activists, which claimed two more lives on Sunday, and blamed Israel for the weekend of violence, whilst accusing his Israeli counterpart’s government of trying "to kill any possibility for (achieving a) mutual cease-fire". [26] [27]
• 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. [28]
• 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 Vice President Dick Cheney rejects the accusation. [29] [30]
• 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. [31] [32] [33]
• President of Russia Vladimir Putin names Mikhail Fradkov as his new prime minister. [34]
• Marc Dutroux, alleged Belgian child molester and murderer of four girls, goes on trial. [35]
• 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. [36]
• The winners of the BAFTA Games Awards are announced. The controversial and popular Grand Theft Auto: Vice City sweeps the pool, with five awards. [37]
• Several hundred United States, French and Canadian troops are deployed to Haiti. [38]
• 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. [39]

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