Portal:Current events/2018 March 9

• Media of the United Kingdom
  • British music journalism magazine New Musical Express (NME) issues its final print edition after 66 years, becoming a purely digital medium. (London Evening Standard)

• 2017–18 North Korea crisis
  • 2018 North Korea–United States summit
    • White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that the White House needs to see "concrete and verifiable steps" toward the denuclearization of North Korea before meeting with Kim Jong-un. (Business Insider)
  • Australia–North Korea relations, Australia–United States relations
    • Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urges U.S. President Donald Trump to be cautious in North Korea talks. Turnbull also said that Australia must retain sanctions on North Korea. (Canberra Times)
  • France–North Korea relations, France–United States relations
    • French President Emmanuel Macron says that Trump should hold tough talks with North Korea. (First Post)

• Yountville hostage crisis
  • An Afghan War veteran and recently expelled resident takes an executive director and two psychologists into a room at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, California. Seven hours later, California Highway Patrol officers find all of them shot dead. (The New York Times)
• Crime in New York
  • A Brooklyn federal court sentences Martin Shkreli to seven years in prison for securities fraud in his hedge fund and pharmaceutical companies. (CNBC)
• Federal pardons in the United States
  • U.S. President Donald Trump pardons Kristian Saucier, who had served a one-year sentence for unauthorized possession and retention of national defense information. (The Washington Post)

• Politics of Mauritius
  • Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is to resign over a financial scandal, where she was accused of using a charity bank card to make personal purchases worth tens of thousands of dollars. (Reuters) (BBC)

• 2018 in spaceflight
  • Arianespace launches mission VS18 from the Guiana Space Centre, a Soyuz rocket carrying a payload of four O3b communications satellites for SES. (NASASpaceFlight.com)

• 2018 Winter Paralympics
  • The opening ceremony of the 2018 Paralympic Games in South Korea takes place. (BBC)
• Figure skating in the United States
  • American figure skating coach Richard Callaghan is suspended by the United States Center for SafeSport for alleged inappropriate sexual conduct with a 15-year-old pupil in 1985, first reported in 1999. (The Washington Post)