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Portal:Current events/2014 March 17
March 17, 2014 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- United States Navy SEALs take over a disavowed oil tanker in international waters previously seized by Libyan rebels. (AP via New Zealand Herald)
International relations
- President of the United States Barack Obama announces that the United States will sanction Russian officials that contributed to the current Crimean crisis. (Voice of America)
Natural disasters
- A 6.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Chile with officials issuing precautionary tsunami warnings for the nation's coast. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- 2014 Crimean status referendum
- The Republic of Crimea is declared. (AP)
Science and technology
- Evidence of cosmic inflation from the BICEP2 experiment is announced by the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. (BBC News) (Space)
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