World This Week : 7 May–13 May 2012

A compilation of all the important topics and events of the week is given here. Update your Current Affairs Weekly with our World This Week.

• The Taliban killed 14 security personnel and beheaded all but one of them before displaying the heads of two soldiers
• Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia's President for a third term
• China asked America not to not to interfere in its internal matter in the overall interest of bilateral ties
• Syrian participated in the nationwide parliamentary polls, opposition called to boycott the polls

8 May, 2012

• Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera English closed its bureau in Beijing after the Chinese government expelled its correspondent
• CIA discovered a second, more sophisticated, “underwear bomb” plot originating in Yemen and targeting a U.S.-bound airliner
• Russian Parliament confirmed Dmitry Medvedev's appointment as Prime Minister
• The Supreme Court of Pakistan said that it held Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani in contempt of court because his persistent defiance of the highest judiciary could be substantially detrimental to the administration of justice

9 May, 2012

• Spanish PM defended EU fiscal pact, austerity policy
• Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, a known friend of India in the Congress who played a key role in passage of the civil nuclear deal, lost the primary Senate elections in his state
• The European Court of Human Rights rejected the appeal for a review of the deportation of Abu Qatada, the radical preacher

10 May, 2012

• Two suicide bombers killed at least 55 people and wounded nearly 400 in the Syrian capital Damascus
• All of the dozens aboard a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet flying on a sales promotion trip in Indonesia were killed when the plane slammed into a mountain
• US President Barack Obama supported same- sex marriage
• Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani rejected American claims that the al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was hiding in Pakistan

11 May, 2012

• Egypt's first-ever televised presidential debate came as polls suggest  Mussa and Abdul Fotouh as the leading contenders
• Horst Faas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with the AP, died

12 May, 2012

• Pakistani troops fired at an Indian post along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district
• The U.N. adopted global guidelines to defend the land rights of poor farmers
• The U.S. Postal Service banned international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries such as smartphones, laptops and iPads, citing the risk of fire

13 May, 2012

• Anti-Putin protesters upped the ante in their peaceful confrontation with authorities when about 10000 marched in central Moscow in an unsanctioned demonstration
• The war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh indicted Ghulam Azam, founder of Jamaat-E-Islami in former East Pakistan, on charges of incitement, conspiracy, planning, murder, abetment and failure to prevent crimes against humanity during the country's liberation war in 1971