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Current events of March 2, 2014 (2014-03-02) (Sunday)

2014 Crimean crisis, 2014 Ukrainian revolution:
- Ukraine's Navy commander-in-chief, Denis Berezovsky who was appointed only March 1, defects to the Russia-backed Crimea government. (Ria Novosty via inSerbia)
- Ukraine's acting president Oleksandr Turchynov says Ukraine's airspace has been closed to any non-civilian aircraft. (Reuters)
War in North-West Pakistan:
- Pakistani military bombs the hideout of a Taliban militant leader killing five insurgents. (Jerusalem Post)
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:
- Over 100 people die in several bomb attacks in Nigeria. (Vanguard)

Thai general election, 2014
- Voters in Thailand go to the polls for a rerun of a general election hoped to end the current political crisis. (AAP via SBS)
In Russia, police detained several hundred anti-war protesters in Moscow. (AFP/NewsAsia) (Wall Street Journal)
Over 250,000 Haredim in Israel staged a protest against military conscription.