Eurozone rescue fund launched Hugo Chavez re-elected as Venezuelan president Anti-drone peace march led by Imran Khan halted in Pakistan Venezuela president elections after fierce campaign Turkey’s parliament authorises military action in Syria Facebook surpasses one billion users EU Single Market Act II aims to boost competition Iran police clashContinue Reading
Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, will shut down all its nuclear power plants by 2022, a decision that would make it the first major industrialised power to go nuclear-free in the aftermath of the atomic disaster in Japan. Germany’s coalition government announced the decision after seven hours of negotiations that stretchedContinue Reading
The UN General Assembly has voted unanimously to elect Ban Ki-moon for a second five-year term as the world body’s Secretary General, lauding him for bolstering the organization’s role and visibility in “trying circumstances”. The 192-nation assembly backed the 67-year-old former South Korean Foreign Minister by acclamation yesterday. Ban’s secondContinue Reading
BRIC expands to BRICS BRIC, the grouping of the four countries thought to radiate the largest lessons in developing an economy–Brazil, Russia, India and China–has decided to transform itself to BRICS, with the much-awaited induction of South Africa into the cohort, making it more representative. Started in year 2009, theContinue Reading
Canadian Parliament Dissolved On March 26, 2011, Canada’s Governor-General dissolved the Parliament after a vote of no-confidence in Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, setting up a May 2 election, the fourth in seven years. Junta rule ends in Myanmar On March 30, 2011, Myanmar’s military handed power to aContinue Reading
December 9,2010 World News :International Affairs Wikileaks ‘revenge’ attacks hit Visa and Mastercard Web attacks by a group of activists targeting firms that withdrew services from Wikileaks disrupt Mastercard and Visa. Visa acknowledged the cyber attack on its website and reassured cardholders that no customer data had been put atContinue Reading
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