Current Events - World Events 2013
Current Events - January 2013
04. Signs of reconciliation
between Hamas and Fatah as Hamas allows Fatah rally in Gaza.
05. Taliban warns of a prolonged
war in Afghanistan if any foreign troops stay after 2014· Beijing puts into
operation four subway lines with a combined length of 70 km making the Beijing
subway system the world's longest • Sania Mirza partnering American Bethanie
Mattek-Sands takes the Brisbane International women's doubles title.
07. Obama's nomination of Charles
Hagel as his Defence Secretary and John Brennan as CIA director stirs up
controversy • Lionel Messi wins Bailon d' Or for best footballer of the year
for a record fourth time. OS. Indian origin politician Halima Yacob is set to
become the first woman Speaker of Singapore's parliament • The Milky Way is home
to 17 billion Earth-sized planets, one in 7 of these is habitable, astronomers
say.
13. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa
dismisses country's first woman Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake over graft.
14. Iran hostage drama Argo and musical
Les Miserables win two and three Golden Globe awards respectively.
15. Crisis in Pakistan as Supreme
Court orders arrest of Prime Minister ParvezAshraf. Talks of coup in Pakistan •
Ex-Attorney General appointed Chief Justice of Sri Lanka but Bandaranayake says
she is still Chief Justice.
18. Lance Armstrong confesses to
taking drugs to win all of his Tour de France titles.
19. 140 countries agree to limit mercury
use in world's first treaty on mercury in Geneva.
21.37 foreigners of 8 nationalities
killed by hostage takers in an Algerian gas plant attack.
22. Malian town of Diabaly recaptured
from Islamist rebels.
24. British PM Cameron tells
European Union not to force Britain to join it.
26. Twenty one people sentenced
to death for football violence in Port Said, Egypt last year. Victoria Azarenka
retains women's singles title at the Australian Open beating Li Na of China.
27. Former left-leaning PM Milos Zeman
is the first directly elected Czech President· World No.1 Novak Dhokoric takes his
third successive Australian Open men's singles title overcoming World No.3 Andy
Murray in 4 sets.
28, Violence in Egypt for 5th day
Opposition rejects Morsy's dialogue call • Samuel Yin, one of Taiwan's richest men
launches Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize - the Tang Prize-donating $102 million.
29. Tougher test introduced for
British citzenship • Election results send Israeli old guard into twilight.
30. Former presidential candidate
John Kerry confirmed as U.S. Secretary of State • Israel becomes the first country
to boycott a United Nation (U.N) review of its human rights practices.
Current Events - February 2013
01. Blast hits u.s. Embassyin Turkey·
Dow Jones Index climbs to 14,000 points for the 1st time since the Great
Recession • Warm welcome to French President Hollunde in Malian town Timbuktu,
recaptured by French and Malian forces' from Islamists after 10 years • Iran develops
fighter jet
02. Iran accepts U.S. offer of
talks to end standoff.
04. Rajapaksa rules out autonomy to
Tamils of North Lanka. Afghan peace deal in 6 months • Britain unleashes hand-held
drone to fight Taliban • Match fixing at club and national levels uncovered by
European investigators.
06. U.s. drone base in Saudi
Arabia reported • Portrait of Picasso's lover sold for 28.6 million in a London
auction.
07. Pak politicians slam
country's Kashmir policy • China arrests 12 Tibetans in a crackdown on self-immolation.
08. Clashes at the funeral of
murdered Tunisian opposition leader Chahrai Beleid.
09. A letter from Gandhiji considered an important document in world history, to be public auctioned in Britain.
09. A letter from Gandhiji considered an important document in world history, to be public auctioned in Britain.
10. Pandit Ravi Shanker'S
daughters receive the Grammy for lifetime achievement award to the Sitar maestro·
Massive explosion near French base in Mali • Nigeria win African Nations Cup
football title.
11. Pope Bendict XVI to resign on
Feb 28 the first Pope to quit in 600 years.
12. Obama calls the latest North
Korean nuclear test highly provocative ·IOC drops wrestling from Olympic programme
from 2020 Olympics. 9 Afghans killed in NATO strike. Russia opposes arms cut
until new START is signed • Bangladesh, India set to consolidate ties s Zimbabwe
to hold a referendum on a new constitution in March.
15. A meteorite streaks above a Siberian
city shaking ground and injuring hundreds of people.
17. UN and Arab League envoy Lakhdar
Brahimi urges U.N. based talks to end Syrian crisis. Australia win women's cricket
World Cup for the 6'h time.
19. India pushes for expanding banking
links with China.
20. Bulgarian government to quit following
protests over the economic woes of the country· United States ready to beat
back against Chinese cyber-attacks.
21.lran tells global powers to
end pressure tactics in nuclear talks • Barcelona stunned by A.C. Milan in Champion
Leagure Football.
22, US-Russia rift on Syria
re-emerges as U.S. refuses to endorse Russia's condemnation of Damascus car bomb
blasts.
23. Six underground tanks holding
radioactive wastes are leaking at the Nuclear Reservation in Washington.
24. Pope BenedictXVI gives final blessing,
says he will not abandon church.
25. Life of Pie wins four Oscars.
Argo is the best picture> South Korea's first woman President Park Geun hye
sworn in.
26. Italian election leads to
impasse withno party emerging a clear winner.
28. Russia supports French plans
to resolve Syrian crisis. U.S. faces massive spending cuts.
Current Events - March 2013
01. Sri Lankan President
Rajapaksa denies that army killed rabhakaran's son Balachandran.
as. Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is
Forbes richest man of the world for the 4th successive year China hikes defence
budget by 10.7.
06. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
passes away.
08. A study says the Earth is on
track to becoming the hottest it has ever been in the past period of 11.3 millennia.
09. Uhuru Kenyatta, son of
Kenya's first Prime Minister and President Jomo Kenyatta, wins Kenyan presidential
elections.
10. In restructured Chinese
economy market gains importance. Aung San Su Kyi re-elected Mayanmar opposition
chief amid calls for new blood.
11. Pakistan, Iran launch gas pipeline
project in defiance of U.S.
12. The 11 th Panchan Lama included
in top Chinese advisory body • Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and British heptathlon
queen Jessica Ennis are Laureaus sports personalities of the year 2012.
13. Argentinian Cardinal George
Mario Bergoglio elected 286'h Pope, the first pope from outside Europe in 1272
years, takes the name Pope Francis I
15. Li Keqiang becomes China's
new Premier, bolder reforms expected • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
cobbles up a coalition to form a government. .
16. History is created in
Pakistan as the PPP-led civilian government and the National Assembly complete
their full 5-year term.
17. Xi Jinping, who took over as the
new Chinese President on March 16, spells out the dream of making the country
strong without seeking hegemony. • U.S. journal Time announced that 'Bobby' Ghosh,
an Indian, would be Editor of Time International.
18. A Swedish think tank says
India has emerged as world's leading buyer of weapons and China, the largest
seller.
19. Russia says that the
scrapping of U.S. missile shield for Europe did not address Russia's concerns.
20. Belgian mathematician Pierre
Deligna selected for this year's Abel Prize, which is equivalent to the Nobel
Prize • Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year old Pakistani girl, who survived a deadly
Taliban attack on last October, returns to school in Birmingham.
22. Nigerian author Chinua
Achele, considered Father of Africa's literary legacy, passes away at 82.
23. Pope Francis I meets Pope
Emeritus Benedict XVI • Chinese President Xi Jinping calls for eternal
friendship with Russia.
24. Musharraf returns to Pakistan
despite death threats.
26. Syrian rebels take seat at
Arab league summit in Doha.
27. Fifth BRICS summit ends in
Durban with decision to set up a development bank.
28. The 198 member states of the
UN are on the verge of approving an unprecedented global arms trade treaty •
U.S. deploys B-2s over South Korea, describes it as 'deterrence mission.'
30. Kenya Supreme Court upholds
election of Uhuru Kenyatta as the country's next president • Anti Morsi
protests rage across Egypt against the president's ways of flouting legal norms
to implement his agenda.
31. Egyptians fear crackdown on
freedom of expression as satirist Yousuf arrested over alleged defamation and
fraud.
Current Events - April 2013
02. North Korea's threat to
increase nuclear weapons production sparks fear of war. UN troops replace
foreign troops to defend Mali against insurgency.
03. North Korea blocks access to
Kaesong Complex, a key joint industrial zone with South Korea.
04. US boosts missile threats
after Pyongyang says it has cleared its military to use light nuclear weapons.
05. Seventeen-year old Paris Brown
is appointed UK's first youth Police and Crime Commissioner • Best-selling British
soprano Sarah Brightman set to become
only the 8th space tourist and by far the most famous 'civilian' space traveller.
06. UN Human Rights Chief calls on
Washington to close down Guantanamo Prison.
08. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's
only woman Prime Minister, the Iron lady (3 consecutive terms from 1978 to
1990), passes away at 87.
09. Iraq quietly marks 10th anniversary
of the fall of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime
10. British scientist Robert
Edwards, Nobel Prize winner for his pioneering work on test-tube babies, died at
87.
11. U.S blasts WTO member
countries, particularly India, for failing to cut trade barriers.
12. World's first woman to receive
a uterus transplant. Derya Serts, 22, ofTurkey, is two weeks pregnant
13. Russia bans 18 American
officials' entry into the country as a tit-for-tat for the sanctions imposed by
U.S on 18 Russians.
15. Nicolas Maduro, late Hugo
Chavez's protege, wins Venezula's presidential election • Lab-made kidney offers
great hope for patients.
16. Strongest earthquake in 50years
in the border of South east Iran kills at least 35 and jolts Pakistan India and
the Gulf states.
17. Margaret Thatcher given the
grandest funeral for a British PM in half a century at a cost of 10 million
pounds.
19. Former Pakistan military ruler
Pervez Musharraf in police custody • NASA says two planets orbiting a star are inhabitable
with chances of water • Taliban's
shooting victim Malala Yousufzai named among 'Time' magazine's most influential
people in the world.
20. A 6.6 magnitude earthquake in
China's South-western province leaves over 150 people dead.
21. 87 -year old President
Georgio Napolitano re-elected Italy's president.
22 Netherlands company' Mars One'
is planning to send 4 astronauts to Mars and set up a colony on the Red Planet
by 2023.
23. Historic Umayyad Minaret in Aleppo
destroyed in Syrian civil war • A new strain of Bird Flu that has killed 22 in
China is described the most lethal « Whereabouts of the two bishops abducted in
northern Syria remain unknown.
25. Officials admit that Boston
bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsaranacu had been in terrorist list for 18 months.
26. Syrian opposition seeks UN intervention
in the use of nerve gas as US says military action is an option.
27. Centre-left politician Enrico
Letta to form coalition government in Italy, Berlusconi ally Alfano named
Deputy Prime Minister.
28. Owner of Rana Plaza, the
Bangladesh building that collapsed killing over 375, arrested at India border.
30. Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhary
elected Bangladesh's first woman speaker.
Current Events - May 2013
01. Musharaff arrested over
killing of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation. US national Kenneth
Bao sentenced for 15 years hard labour in North Korea for" hostile action"
against the
government.
government.
02. A UN report says Somalia famine
of 2010-12 killed 258,000. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says any peace
deal with Palestinians will be put to referendum.
03. Hamas leaders reject a peace
deal with Israel put forward by the Arab League.
04. China bolsters military's
role on its western border including regions bordering India -India is considering
more investments in Iran.
06. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib
Razak begins a second term after his National Front coalition wins the elections.
07. A string of Israeli air strikes
on Syria threatens to expand the geographical boundaries of the Syrian conflict
• In an annual report to the U.S. congress, Pentagon says that the Chinese
government is responsible for cyber intrusions.
08. U.S., Russia agree on Syria
peace process.
09. Former Pakistan Prime
Minister Gilani's son Ali Haider Gilani abducted from a poll-related meeting in
Multan • Afghan President Hamid Karzai says US will maintain 9 military bases
in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US forces in 2014.
10. Pakistan gears for its first
ever election under civilian watch.
12. Nawaz Sharif set for third
term as Pak Premier as his party Pakistan Muslim League - N wins an unassail- able
lead. English Premier League team Manchester United bids farewell to their manager
for 21/2 decades, Sir Alex Ferguson· Shooting at Mother's Day parade in New
Orleans, USA kills 19.
14. Russia detains an American
spy from the U.S. embassy in Moscow, orders expulsion.
15. A UN report says that international
sanctions have curtailed North Korea's ability to push ahead with its nuclear
weapons programme. A geophysicist says that melting of polar ice sheet and mountain
glaciers with rising sea level has caused the North Pole to drift towards east.
16. U. N. General Assembly passes
a resolution calling for political transition in Syria.
18. Russia decides to supply
weapons including S-300 missiles to Syria in a bold attempt to save the regime.
Hardliners in Afghan parliament blocks the passing of a law banning violence
against women.
20. Sectarian violence in Iraq kills
79 persons in a day, 224 persons in less than a week.
21. Syria -Israel confrontation in
the border zone of Golan Heights. Devastating Oklahoma tornado kills 24.
22. American writer Lydia Davis
wins Man Booker International Prize 2013.
23. China says it will go ahead
with building infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir despite India's concerns.
Eighty year old Japanse Yuichiro Miura, a former extreme skier becomes the oldest
man to climb Mount Everest.
24. Organisation for African
Unity (OAU) observes the golden jubilee of its founding under its current name 'African
Union.'· Pakistan feels relieved by Obama's new drone policy
25. Bayern Munich beats Borussia
Dortmund 2-1 to win European Champions League football title.
27. A lesbian love story Blue is
the Warmest colour wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
30. A global topographic map of
Saturn's largest moon 'Titan' is produced by scientists.
31. Diversion of a major Nile
tributaroy sparks tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia.
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