Monday, January 9, 2012

World Current Affairs, December 2011(Part-1)

This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of December 2011. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings.
This is the first set of World Current Affairs, December 2011.

  • One person dies and 16 others are injured in three separate chain-reaction crashes involving 176 cars in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.(1st December)
  • The 2010–2011 Belgian government formation draws to a close as six parties come to an agreement which will see PS leader Elio di Rupo become Prime Minister.(1st December)
  • Muslim rioters attack liquor stores and massage parlours in Zakho in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq after Friday prayers. The attacks later extended to include Christian owned shops and businesses in other cities including Dohuk and Simele.(2nd December)
  • United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's pre-eminent pro-democracy activist, to promote democratic reforms.(2nd December)
  • The United Nations Human Rights Council denounces the crimes against humanity during the 2011 Syrian uprising which killed over 4,000 people since the uprising started in March.(2nd December)
  • Indian cinema actor, director and producer Dev Anand dies of a heart attack in London.(3rd December)
  • At least eight children have died in the past few weeks in Ecuador's Amazon basin after being bitten by rabid bats.(3rd December)
  • The governing Australian Labor Party changes its platform in support of gay marriage at its conference in Sydney, paving the way for legislation.(3rd December)
  • Herman Cain announces that he will suspend his campaign for Republican nomination in the United States presidential election following a series of sexual harassment and other misconduct allegations.(3rd December)
  • 45,000 citizens of Koblenz, Germany, are allowed to return home after bomb squads defused World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for almost 65 years.(4th December)
  • Australia approves exports of uranium to India.(4th December)
  • Transparency International releases the 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, declaring North Korea and Somalia the most corrupt nations in the world, and New Zealand the least corrupt.(4th December)
  • Independent exit polls suggest the governing United Russia party failed to get a majority in the Duma, amid accusations of massive voter harassment and DDoS attacks targeting blogs.(4th December)
  • The President of Peru Ollanta Humala declares a state of emergency in the Cajamarca region to stop anti-mining protests.(4th December)
  • Former Brazilian football captain Sócrates dies in hospital in Sao Paulo from complications of food poisoning.(4th December)
  • In lawn tennis, Spain wins the 2011 Davis Cup.(4th December)
  • Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, and Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, call for a new European Union Treaty to help prevent future Eurozone crises.(5th December)
  • There are widespread reports that credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will put 15 nations in the Eurozone under review for a possible downgrade, including France and Germany.(5th December)
  • Former Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo appears before the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity.(5th December)
  • Julian Assange is allowed a final appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom against his extradition to Sweden to answer questions over sexual assault allegations.(5th December)
  • Preliminary results are released from the Russian legislative election showing the ruling United Russia winning 50 percent of the vote, well down on its 2008 vote.(5th December)
  • A suicide attack attacks a Shiite shrine in the Afghan capital Kabul during the festival of Ashura, resulting in at least 50 people killed and hundreds injured. Hours later another attack takes place at Mazar-i-Sharif, killing at least 4.(6th December)
  • The Reserve Bank of Australia cuts interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.25 per cent due to continuing global economic concern.(6th December)
  • Australia announces more sanctions against Iran amidst growing concerns about its nuclear and missile programs.(6th December)
  • A journalist, Luz Marina Paz, is killed in Honduras becoming the 17th journalist shot in the past two years.(6th December)
  • After 541 days of negotiations, the longest in history, the new federal government of Belgium is sworn in, with Elio di Rupo as Prime Minister, making him the first Walloon to reach this position in 38 years and the second openly gay head of government in the world.(6th December)
  • Thousands of people take to the streets of Moscow in protests against the conduct and outcome of the Russian legislative election with dozens of opposition supporters being arrested as the demonstrations turn violent.(6th December)
  • The Parliament of Greece approves an austerity budget.(6th December)
  • The United States commemorates the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i.(7th December)
  • The board of Japan's Olympus Corporation announces its plans to resign early next year due to its accounting scandal.(7th December)
  • The former President of Israel Moshe Katsav is due to arrive at a prison outside Tel Aviv to start a seven year term for rape.(7th December)
  • Former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev says that the Russian authorities must acknowledge the recent street protests, annul the results of Sunday’s parliamentary election and hold a new poll.(7th December)
  • The Russian Federal Space Agency officially gives up attempting to rescue Fobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1, and expects them to fall back to Earth in January 2012.(7th December)
  • An investigation by the Associated Press and German media uncovers a secret prison suspected of having been operated by the CIA in Bucharest, Romania.(8th December)
  • Hundreds of workers continue a strike in southern China for a fifth day amid a labour dispute.(8th December)
  • Former CEO of MF Global, Jon Corzine, testified to a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that he doesn't know what happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars of customers' money, supposedly in segregated accounts, that appears to be missing.(8th December)
  • A storm causes damage, flooding and power cuts across the north of the British Isles, particularly Scotland with winds up to 165 mph (264 km/h).(8th December)
  • Philippines officials claim that the People's Republic of China has executed a Filipino man for drug trafficking despite a plea for clemency from the President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III on humanitarian grounds.(8th December)
  • Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accuses the United States of sponsoring the opposition in the country, following protests over the outcome of the recent elections.(8th December)
  • Iranian state television shows footage of a United States Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel drone that its forces claim to have shot down.(8th December)
  • The Government of Japan apologizes to Canada over the treatment of Canadian POWs during World War II.(8th December)
  • Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe calls for elections in 2012 to replace the power-sharing government in place since 2008.(8th December)
  • Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades the ratings of France's three biggest banks, Crédit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Société Générale.(9th December)
  • Stock prices rise at stock exchanges around the world, and some analysts see this as a reaction to a fiscal agreement among the leaders of the eurozone.(9th December)
  • David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, refuses to join a European Union financial crisis accord after negotiations in Brussels.(9th December)
  • David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, refuses to join a European Union financial crisis accord after negotiations in Brussels.(9th December)
  • Incumbent President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Kabila is declared the winner of the Congolese general election but lead opposition candidate Étienne Tshisekedi disputes the outcome.(9th December)
  • The Pakistani Taliban confirms that it is holding peace talks with the government.(10th December)
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim wins the game of the year at the Spike Video Game Awards.(10th December)
  • A light cargo plane crashes into an elementary school building in the Philippines city of Paranaque with 13 people dead.(10th December)
  • A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Mexican state of Guerrero. It causes three deaths and is felt across several central states.(10th December)
  • A day of protests begins in cities across Russia against alleged election fraud by Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party, with fifty thousand people marching in Moscow and 25 people arrested in Khabarovsk.(10th December)
  • Restrictions on Russian media covering the protests are lifted.(10th December)
  • At least six people are killed in clashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the aftermath of disputed general elections in which Joseph Kabila was named President.(10th December)
  • Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is sworn as President of Argentina in a second consecutive mandate.(10th December)
  • Oscar Valdés is named as the new Prime Minister of Peru, after Salomón Lerner Ghitis resigned.(10th December)
  • NASA clears SpaceX to launch Dragon COTS Demo Flight 2 toward the International Space Station in a window opening on February 7, 2012.(10th December)
  • Hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrate in Yemen calling for the trial of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.(11th December)
  • North Korea warns of "unexpected consequences" if South Korea lights a Christmas tree near their mutual border.(11th December)
  • The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference finishes in Durban in South Africa with an agreement to begin negotiations on a new treaty.(11th December)
  • Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega is extradited home from France and the United States where he has been serving jail sentences for the past 22 years to serve more time for his role in the murder of political opponents.(11th December)
  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders an inquiry into the disputed results of the parliamentary elections.(11th December)
  • Around 1,000 people protest in Taipei, demanding that the government make a weekly day off a legal right for Taiwan's 200,000 foreign live-in caregivers.(11th December)
  • United States President Barack Obama has asked Iran for the RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured near Kashmar on December 4.(12th December)
  • A Chinese fishing boat captain allegedly stabs a Republic of Korea Coast Guard officer, killing him, after his boat is stopped for illegally fishing in South Korean waters.(12th December)
  • Canada announces that it will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, because the country would face large penalties because of treaty violations.(12th December)
  • Pakistan police rescues 50 boys from a dungeon in Karachi, Pakistan. Police reports say that the dungeon was equipped with shackles and hooks.(13th December)
  • At least 5,000 people are now estimated to have been killed in Syria's uprising, amid continuing violence.(13th December)
  • Three Thai soldiers are killed by a land mine near the border with Cambodia.(13th December)
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 becomes the fastest selling entertainment product of all time passing $1bn in sales in 16 days.(13th December)
  • Iran has turned down the United States request to return a RQ-170 that was captured recently by Iranian forces after it crash landed in the country. Iranian officials report that they are extracting data from the aircraft. Iranian officials stated the drone was brought down by a cyber attack.(13th December)
  • According to researchers, in two separate experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, indications of the Higgs boson may have been detected.(13th December)
  • The governments of the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands protest the start of Japan's whaling season off the coast of Antarctica.(14th December)
  • The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament and ally of Vladimir Putin, Boris Gryzlov, resigns.(14th December)
  • The United States flag is lowered in Baghdad marking the end of U.S. military operations in Iraq after nearly nine years of the Iraq War.(15th December)
  • The United Nations calls for the protection of LGBT rights worldwide, in its first report on the issue.(15th December)
  • Former President of France Jacques Chirac is found guilty of embezzlement and violating trust due to his hiring members of his party to fill non-existent jobs while Mayor of Paris.(15th December)
  • The US National Institutes of Health places a temporary moratorium on new studies using chimpanzees in response to a report that claims nearly all medical research on the animals is scientifically unjustified.(15th December)

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