• Mexican Drug War: The Mexican newspaper El Mañana from the northern city of Nuevo Laredo will stop reporting on Mexico's drug-related violence after a second grenade attack at its installations. (Huffington Post)
• Syrian uprising (2011–present):
  • 56 people are reportedly killed by the Syrian army, including a Red Crescent worker. (Naharnet)
  • Syria's ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf al Fares, defects. (CNN) (Reuters)
  • Syrian opposition figures arrive in Russia for talks with the Russian government. (Ghana Broadcasting Corporation)
• United Nations peacekeepers are redeployed to the Congolese city of Goma to protect it from March 23 Movement rebels. (UPI)
• A suicide bombing at a police academy in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a kills at least 20 people. (BBC)
• An ambush by suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels kills 6 rubber plantation workers and injures a further 22 in the southern Philippines. (AP via Washington Post)
• 520 men and boys killed in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 are buried in Potočari, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (IOL)

• Artists sign a letter accusing the European Commission of "breaking promises" on the matter of missing royalties. (BBC)
• A rare giant panda born naturally in captivity at a Tokyo zoo dies after only six days, prompting widespread mourning in Japan. (National Post)

• Bolivia revokes a mining concession to Canada's South American Silver Corporation after violent protests by Quechua people. (Al Jazeera)

• Japan lodges a formal protest with China after the presence of the latter's patrol boats near the disputed Senkaku Islands. (BBC)
• ASEAN nations and China fail to agree on a code of conduct designed to ease tensions over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. (Al Jazeera)
• The Canadian government warns Iran not to use its embassy in Ottawa to recruit expatriates in Canada to serve the Islamic Republic’s interests. (National Post)

• Court documents reveal former FIFA president João Havelange had accepted bribes upwards of 1.5m Swiss francs. (BBC)
• Lee Sang-deuk, the elder brother of South Korean president Lee Myung-bak, is arrested in Seoul on bribery charges. (AP via The Washington Post)
• British police widen their phone-hacking inquiry with new arrests of journalists from newspapers not owned by News Corporation, which previously has been the focus of the investigation. (Los Angeles Times)

• Russia's lower parliament approves a bill creating a list of blacklisted websites, amid fears of censorship. (AFP via Google News) (Russia Today)
• Chinese authorities order internet video providers to prescreen all videos before making them available. (Times of India)
• The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives votes for the thirty-third time to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare; the measure is not likely to pass the Democratic-controlled United States Senate. (USA Today) (CBS News)
• Police clash with demonstrators in Madrid as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy introduces new widescale cuts. (BBC) (Reuters)
• Police clash with Chilean fishermen opposed to a new law said to favour larger companies; Chilean police use tear gas and water cannon to break up demonstrations in Valparaíso. (BBC)

• Astronomers announce the discovery of S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto. (Fox News)

• British Armed Forces are on standby to provide an extra 3,500 troops to help with security at the 2012 Olympics. (BBC)