Portal:Current events/2009 March 3

Portal:Current events/DateHeader2 Aberdeen airport protesters arressted and due in court soon

• Raimundo Pereira, the President of Guinea-Bissau's National People's Assembly, is sworn in as the interim Head of State following the assassination of President João Bernardo Vieira. (Reuters)
• The European Court of Human Rights rules Turkey's government violated the property rights of a Greek Orthodox foundation by seizing its land and orders it to pay €105,000 in fines. (Reuters)
• The National Committee of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which will last for nine days, starts its annual session with a focus on the global financial crisis. (Xinhua News)
• Former Yukos businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky again stands trial for alleged financial crimes. (Moscow Times)
• Six Sri Lankan cricket players are wounded and six Pakistani policemen are killed in shootings near Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium; two civilians are also killed. (Sky News), (BBC)
• A minor earthquake, measuring 2.8 on the Richter Scale, strikes Folkstone, England. (BBC News)
• UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets with US President Barack Obama at the White House. (BBC)
• Three people are feared trapped after the Cologne municipal archives building collapses, destroying parts of a nearby building. (Spiegel Online)

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