World This Week: 19 November–25 November 2012

Dec 18, 2012, 18:14 IST

The Seventh East Asia Summit, Twenty First ASEAN Summit and tenth ASEAN-India summit were one of the major happenings of the week at world level

The Seventh East Asia Summit, Twenty First ASEAN Summit and tenth ASEAN-India summit were one of the major happenings of the week at world level. The World This Week segment is prepared to guide a student with the events and their occurrences round the week that was witnessed by the world.

19 November 2012
• India Added 22 New Items to promote Indo-Myanmar Border Trade
• The Seventh East Asia Summit concluded in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Twenty first ASEAN Summit concluded in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Tenth ASEAN-India Summit Concluded at Peace Palace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

20 November 2012
• India Voted Against UN General Assembly’s Resolution to Ban Death Penalties
• The 8th Meeting of the India-UK JWG on Counter Terrorism held in New Delhi

21 November 2012
• President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf chosen for Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2012
• CEOs from the World Came Together to Combat Deadly Cancer
• Mount Tongariro Volcano in the North Island region of New Zealand Erupted

22 November 2012
• GRACE revealed that Greenland loses 200 million tonnes of ice every year
• Three Indian Writers Shortlisted for DSC South Asian Literature Prize 2013
• BBC Appointed Tony Hall as its New Director General

23 November 2012
• Autar Kaw, a professor of Indian Origin won US Professor of the Year Award-2012
• Lula da Silva awarded Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development
• Rafael Benitez Appointed as the New Manager of Chelsea Football Club

24 November 2012
• Joaquim Barbosa sworn-in as Brazil’s Supreme Court’s First non-White President
• Ernest Bai Koroma re-elected as the President of Sierra Leone

25 November 2012
• Bangladesh’s Worst-Ever Fire Accident Claimed Several Lives

 

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