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March 9, 2018
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2018-03-09
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Arts and culture
Media of the United Kingdom
British
music journalism magazine
New Musical Express
(NME) issues its final print edition after 66 years, becoming a purely
digital medium
.
(
London Evening Standard
)
International relations
2017–18 North Korea crisis
2018 North Korea–United States summit
White House Press Secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
says that the White House needs to see "concrete and verifiable steps" toward the denuclearization of North Korea before meeting with
Kim Jong-un
.
(
Business Insider
)
Australia–North Korea relations
,
Australia–United States relations
Australian Prime Minister
Malcolm Turnbull
urges
U.S. President
Donald Trump
to be cautious in
North Korea
talks. Turnbull also said that
Australia
must retain sanctions on North Korea.
(
Canberra Times
)
France–North Korea relations
,
France–United States relations
French President
Emmanuel Macron
says that Trump should hold tough talks with North Korea.
(
First Post
)
Law and crime
Yountville hostage crisis
An Afghan War veteran and recently expelled resident takes an executive director and two psychologists into a room at the
Veterans Home of California
in
Yountville, California
. Seven hours later,
California Highway Patrol
officers find all of them shot dead.
(
The New York Times
)
Crime in New York
A
Brooklyn federal court
sentences
Martin Shkreli
to seven years in prison for
securities fraud
in his
hedge fund
and
pharmaceutical
companies.
(CNBC)
Federal pardons in the United States
U.S. President
Donald Trump
pardons
Kristian Saucier
, who had served a one-year sentence for unauthorized possession and retention of national defense information.
(
The Washington Post
)
Politics and elections
Politics of Mauritius
Mauritian President
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
is to resign over a financial scandal, where she was accused of using a charity bank card to make personal purchases worth tens of thousands of dollars.
(Reuters)
(BBC)
Science and technology
2018 in spaceflight
Arianespace
launches
mission VS18
from the
Guiana Space Centre
, a
Soyuz rocket
carrying a payload of four
O3b
communications satellites
for
SES
.
(NASASpaceFlight.com)
Sports
2018 Winter Paralympics
The
opening ceremony
of the 2018
Paralympic Games
in
South Korea
takes place.
(BBC)
Figure skating in the United States
American
figure skating
coach
Richard Callaghan
is suspended by the
United States Center for SafeSport
for alleged inappropriate sexual conduct with a 15-year-old pupil in 1985, first reported in 1999.
(
The Washington Post
)
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