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Current events of March 14, 2015 (2015-03-14) (Saturday)

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Disasters and accidents

The United Nations will send emergency aid to Vanuatu with at least four people officially dead and reports of dozens more dead after Cyclone Pam hit yesterday. (Reuters via Daily Mail)(AP)
At least 30 and up to 51 people die after a bus crash in the province of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil. (AFP via Yahoo! News), (Reuters via Daily Mail)

International relations

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi visits Sri Lanka's Jaffna District to hand over 27,000 homes to Tamil survivors of the Sri Lankan Civil War. (Al-Jazeera)
After an armed band removed his personal security guards, the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Samuel Sam-Sumana, goes into hiding after applying for asylum at the United States embassy in Freetown. (AAP via SBS)(AP)
Guyana rejects the latest objections raised by neighboring Venezuela over the granting to ExxonMobil Corp. of an oil and gas concession in Caribbean waters claimed by both nations. (Miami Herald)

Politics and elections

The cancellation of several of Russian President Vladimir Putin's scheduled meetings leads to widespread social media speculations regarding the reason for his public absence. (The New York Times)
Thousands of demonstrators gathered across Canada on Saturday to rally against the Conservative government's proposed anti-terror legislation, Bill C-51, which seeks to expand the powers of police and spy agencies, Including Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair. (CTV News)

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