Main News of March 23

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The Cypriot parliament passed bills to entitle the government to restrict withdrawal of funds from bank accounts in exceptional cases and to establish a “solidarity fund”

* A video showing the sexual abuse of a child went viral on Facebook and was removed by the social networking site after the disturbing footage sparked a wave of fury among Internet users

* The U.S. space agency said that numerous reports of flashes of light in the sky along the east coast of the United States appeared to be "a single meteor event," according to news reports

* President of influential American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Russia, Andrew Somers, plans to quit his post by the end of this year, Kommersant business daily reported

RUSSIA

* Self-exiled Russian businessman and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky has died at his Surrey home at the age of 67, his son-in-law, Yegor Shuppe, said on his Facebook page

* Chinese leader Xi Jinping continued his debut three-day trip to Russia calling it already successful

* One person was killed and one injured when a small biplane crashed in south Russia’s Krasnodar Territory, the Civil Defense and Emergency Situations Ministry said

* Five gunmen and two special forces officers were killed and another six injured in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, the Investigative Committee said