March 19, 2014 (Wednesday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- 2014 Crimean crisis
- Russian forces overrun the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol and another naval base. (AFP via Google) (AP) (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
- Syrian Civil War:
- The Israeli Air Force launches several air strikes on Syrian military sites, killing one Syrian soldier and wounding seven others, in retaliation for a bombing that wounded four of its troops in the Golan Heights. (BBC News)
- Two Egyptian army officers and five militants are killed during a warehouse raid in Qalyubiya province north of Cairo. (NPR) (BBC News)
Business and economy
- Toyota is ordered to pay $1.2 billion to settle charges that it lied to United States safety investigators and the public about deadly accelerator defects. (AFP via Google News)
Politics and elections
- South Africa's Public Protector finds that President Jacob Zuma has "benefitted unduly" from government funded upgrades of his rural residence. (BBC News)
- Canadian Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty resigns, planning a return to the private sector. Joe Oliver is named to replace him. (National Post)