Portal:Current events/2014 March 30
Law and crime
- Garda phone recordings scandal:
- Court documents seen by RTÉ Radio 1's This Week indicate that Gardaí recorded phone conversations with two main witnesses during the 1996 Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation. (RTÉ News)
Politics and elections
- 2014 Turkish local elections:
- Voters in Turkey go to the polls for municipal elections with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party claiming victory. (AP via ABC) (Haaretz) (Sky News Australia)
- Electoral authorities in Egypt set the first round of the presidential election for 26–27 May. (BBC News)
- Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan:
- Between 116,000 and 500,000 protesters march to the Presidential Office, in opposition to recent governmental push for Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement vote and other related issues. (LeMonde) (LibertyTimes)
- 2014 French municipal elections:
- Voters in France go to the polls for a second round of voting in municipal elections. The ruling Socialist Party generally performs badly, but their candidate in the Paris mayoral election Anne Hidalgo is set to become the first female mayor of that city. (AP via Washington Post)