Portal:Current events/2010 March 17
March 17, 2010 (Wednesday)
- Protests in Thailand by the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship continue, with supporters throwing their own blood outside the house of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. (Thai News Agency) (Al Jazeera)
- A French police officer dies in a shootout with Basque nationalist group ETA in Paris, the first French officer to do so. (CNN)
- 30 members of the "Ladies in White" opposition movement in Cuba are arrested at a demonstration in the capital Havana. (AFP) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- Seven Chinese fisherman kidnapped off Cameroon's disputed Bakassi peninsula are released. (CCTV) (BBC)
- Nigeria's acting president Goodluck Jonathan dissolves the country's cabinet. (The Punch) (BBC) (Xinhua)
- Saint Patrick's Day
- President of the United States Barack Obama meets Taoiseach Brian Cowen at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States. (BBC) (RTÉ) (Irish Independent) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Vice President of the United States Joe Biden makes an error when he suggests that Cowen's mother is dead. (The Daily Telegraph) (Evening Herald) (Fox News) (The Times)
- More than half a million people fill the streets of Dublin for the parade there. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (RTÉ)
- President of the United States Barack Obama announces that the United States will pursue aggressive sanctions to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon that could potentially spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. (Reuters)
- An investigation is launched into how a Wal-Mart shop in New Jersey, United States announced "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now". (The Daily Telegraph)
- American television officials issue an apology following the broadcast of two hours of pornography on two children's channels. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide) (The Times of India)