Current events: 2024-03-10

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Haitian crisis
  • The U.S. military airlifts non-essential personnel from the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, amid escalating violence in the country. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• The painting Head of an Old Farmer's Wife in a White Hat by Vincent van Gogh is sold for over €4.5 million. (NOS)

Health and environment

• Following a laboratory investigation, eight children and one adult on Zanzibar are found to have died of chelonitoxism after consuming sea turtle meat, a local delicacy. Another 78 people were hospitalized. (NOS; in Dutch)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Portuguese legislative election
  • Citizens in Portugal vote for the 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic. (DW)

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