{"id":2967,"date":"2011-05-07T20:33:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T04:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2011-05-07T20:33:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T04:33:42","slug":"current-affairs-in-international-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2967","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs in International Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Canadian Parliament Dissolved<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On March 26, 2011, Canada&#8217;s Governor-General dissolved the Parliament after a vote of no-confidence in Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper&#8217;s government, setting up a May 2 election, the fourth in seven years.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Junta rule ends in Myanmar<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On March 30, 2011, Myanmar\u2019s military handed power to a nominally civilian government after almost half a century of army rule, as the junta was disbanded and a new President appointed.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dalai Lama announces his retirement as political head<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On March 10, 2011, the Dalai Lama announced his retirement plan on the 52nd anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising Day. Announcing that he would step down as political head of the Tibetan government-in-exile, the Dalai Lama in his speech said he would hand over his \u201cformal authority\u201d to a \u201cfreely-elected\u201d leader.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">US and European planes hit Libya<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Starting March 19, 2011, Western forces launched a series of air and missile strikes against forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to force him to stop war on opposition forces in Libya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Parliament Dissolved On March 26, 2011, Canada&#8217;s Governor-General dissolved the Parliament after a vote of no-confidence in Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper&#8217;s government, setting up a May 2 election, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2967\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[207,1041,2850],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","tag-current-affairs","tag-currentaffairs","tag-international-affairs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}