World This Week: 5 March-11 March 2012

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5 March
•    206 people killed in a blast at an arms depot in Congo
•    16 people killed and 58 left injured in a train collision in Poland
•    China announced to boost up its military spending by 11.2%
•    Allies of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei won over 75% of seats in parliamentary elections in Iran

6 March
•    Bladimir Putin won the Russian presidential elections
•    139 people died in an Al-Qaida attack on Yemen army
•    Pakistan test-fired Nuclear capable Hatf missile

7 March
•    World Powers- US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany agreed to accept Iran’s offer to resume discussions on Iranian nuclear programme
•    Saudi diplomat, Khalaf bin Mohammed Salem al-Ali killed by a gunman in Dhaka
•    Karzai endorsed regulation issued by an influential council of clerics which permits men to beat wives
•    Avalanche killed 37 in northeastern Afghanistan

8 March
•    Lehman brothers came out of bankruptcy after 3 years. The bank which was collapsed in 2008 economic crisis is set to repay to its creditors
•    China accused Pakistan of fomenting terror in Xinjiang
•    6 soldiers killed in a blast in A fghanistan
•    Maldives President inducted Ghassan Maumoon, youngest son of former dictator Mohammad Gayoom in his cabinet.

9 March
•    Two senior journalists at Rupert Murdoch's best-selling British tabloid The Sun were on Wednesday reported to have attempted to commit suicide after being questioned by police in the phone hacking scandal
•    The former Maldivian dictator, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, returned to the country almost one month after the new regime took over
•    President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said that a tumour removed from his pelvic region during an operation in Havana was malignant

10 March
•    Pakistan appointed Zaheer-ul Islam as the head of Inter Services Intelligence(ISI). Islam would replace Ahmed Shuja Pasha, whose retirement is due on 18 March 2012.
•    The draft resolution on Sri Lanka tabled by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
•    An Indian NGO Chintan selected for the US’ first innovation award for the empowerment of women and girls for training and organising waste pickers and eliminating child labour from recycling.
•    Coke and Pepsi Co. Agreed to follow the California Law which mandates drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens bear a cancer warning level.

11 March
•     11 Palestinians killed in air strikes on Gaza strip
•    Afghanistan, US inked deal on the gradual transfer of prison
•    Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan met Syrian President Bashar Al Assad to resolve the crisis in Syria

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