March 30, 2018 (2018-03-30) (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
International relations
Politics and elections
Law and crime
- Alcohol licensing laws of Ireland
- Reactions to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
- The government of Ukraine states that it expelled two Iranians earlier this year for attempting to buy a Kh-31 missile in Kiev, in violation of United Nations sanctions. (The Daily Beast)
- Senegalese Judge Malick LaMotte sentences Khalifa Sall, mayor of Dakar, Senegal, to a five-year term for fraud. (BBC)
- Protestors take to the streets in Faisalabad, Pakistan, following the rape and murder of a local university student. (Geo News)
- Illegal immigration to the United States
- Immigration to the United States
- Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, detained in Syria on suspicion of beheading hostages for Islamic State, claim their right to a fair trial has been breached by the government of the United Kingdom stripping them of citizenship. (Sky News)
- Four suicide bombers attack Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing five people with thirteen others wounded. (Daily Post)
- Terrorism in the United States
- U.S. sportswear brand Under Armour states that the personal details (including user names, email addresses and scrambled passwords) of about 150 million users of the MyFitnessPal application were compromised in one of the biggest hacks in history. (The Guardian)
- The Lansing, Michigan, Catholic Diocese's insurance company files a civil suit against Rev. Jonathan Wehrle, former pastor of St. Martha's Catholic Church in Okemos, a Lansing suburb, for the embezzlement of more than $5 million from his parish. Wehrle already faces six criminal counts for using embezzled funds to pay for home construction (appraised for much more than a $1 million), maintenance, and purchases. (Lansing State Journal), (AP via ABC News), (Lansing State Journal²)
Science and technology
Sports