World This Week: 9 July–15 July 2012

Below is the compilation of some of the major international events that took place over the past one week. The world this week for the week 9 July to 15 July, will help students to update their information on various world events.

9 July, 2012
•    Aung San Suu Kyi attended Myanmar’s Parliament as a lawmaker for the first time
•    South Sudan on marked its first year of independence. The country is badly trapped in border wars with the north, internal violence and shutdown of its vital oil production
•    Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced that the country would itself implement the 3-billion dollar Padma bridge project through mobilising domestic resources after the World Bank cancelled the loan deal recently

10 July, 2012
•    The International Criminal Court sentenced a Congolese warlord, Thomas Lubanga to 14 years in prison
•    Ten Southeast Asian nations reached on an agreement on a code of conduct to prevent armed clashes over the South China Sea but still sought China’s agreement
•    An Israeli court cleared the former Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert from corruption charges, that forced him out of power
•    The Islamists forces in northern Mali destroyed two tombs at the ancient Djingareyber mosque in Timbuktu

11 July, 2012
•    The U.N. food agency FAO and the OECD in its report said the World farm production must rise 60 per cent by 2050 to meet the needs of a growing population
•    Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy since being sworn in made his maiden foreign trip to Saudi Arabia
•    Russia sent 11 warships to Syria even as NATO is conducting war games in the region
•    Japan protested the movement of three Chinese patrol boats in waters off disputed islands in the East China Sea. Both countries claim sovereignty on the island

12 July, 2012
•    At least 95 people were killed after a truck carrying fuel caught fire and exploded in Nigeria
•    At least nine police trainees were killed by terrorists at a crowded locality of Lahore
•    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, met Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of the Asean Regional Forum meeting in Phnom Penh
•    At least nine police trainees were killed by terrorists at a crowded locality of Lahore

13 July, 2012
•    US imposed a fresh wave of sanctions against Iran, ratcheting up pressure on Tehran to stop its nuclear weapons programme
•    A cargo ship carrying humanitarian aid from the US to Cuba, the first expedition of its kind in 50 years, arrived in Cuba
•    A court in Ethiopia court sentenced a journalist for 18 years imprisonment for terrorism and 23 others for between eight years and life, after a trial condemned by rights groups

14 July, 2012
•    Syrian troops and pro-regime militias stormed and torched a southern town in Syria, as T=the group of UN Observers visited the sites of mass killing
•    A suicide bomber blew himself up in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 23 people including a prominent warlord-turned-politician Ahmad Khan Samangani

15 July, 2012
•    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Egypt
•    Japan recalled its Ambassador to China for consultations amid a simmering row between the Asian powers over disputed territory in the East China Sea
•    US President Barack Obama expressed concerns over the deteriorating investment climate in India and asked the Indian government to endorse another wave of economic reforms

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