International

• Ebrahim Raisi sworn in as new President of Iran

  August 6, 2021

• Shehroze Kashif becomes world’s youngest mountaineer to scale K2

  August 4, 2021

• IMF approves historic $650 bln allocation of Special Drawing Rights

  August 4, 2021

• Myanmar Military Chief appointed as interim Prime Minister

  August 3, 2021

• Nikol Pashinyan Re-appointed as PM of Armenia

  August 3, 2021

• Maldives’ Abdulla Shahid won the Presidency of the 76th UNGA

  July 30, 2021

• Najib Mikati picked as new Lebanon’s prime minister

  July 29, 2021

• Sunseap set to build world’s biggest floating solar in Indonesia

  July 27, 2021

• UNESCO grants World Heritage Status to Madrid’s Paseo del Prado and Retiro Park

  July 27, 2021

• Philippines becomes first country to approve Golden Rice for planting

  July 27, 2021

• United Kingdom reports cases of ‘Norovirus’ infection

  July 26, 2021

• Sweden joins International Solar Alliance

  July 26, 2021

• Ariel Henry to take over as new Haitian Prime Minister

  July 22, 2021

• Leftist school teacher Pedro Castillo declared New Peru President

  July 22, 2021

• China unveils 600 kph maglev train makes public debut

  July 21, 2021

• Russia successfully tested S-500 missile system

  July 21, 2021

• Saudi Arabia ends male guardian requirement for women attending hajj

  July 20, 2021

• US, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan to form new quad grouping

  July 19, 2021

• Singapore unveils one of the world’s biggest floating solar panel farms

  July 16, 2021

• UAE becomes 1st Gulf nation to open embassy in Israel

  July 16, 2021

• China begins construction of world’s 1st commercial small modular reactor

  July 16, 2021

• Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes Nepal’s Prime Minister for 5th time

  July 14, 2021

• Abiy Ahmed wins landslide victory in Ethiopian election

  July 12, 2021

• World’s tallest sandcastle constructed in Denmark

  July 9, 2021

• Haiti President Jovenel Moise assassinated at his home

  July 8, 2021

• China is certified malaria-free by WHO

  July 3, 2021

• World Bank expands Coronavirus Vaccine Funding to $20 billion

  July 2, 2021

• China turns on world’s 2nd-biggest hydropower dam

  June 30, 2021

• Philippines included in FATF grey list

  June 30, 2021

• ESA to hire first disabled astronaut

  June 30, 2021

• Swedish PM Stefan Lofven resigns following no confidence vote

  June 29, 2021

• Nikol Pashinyan elected as Armenia Prime Minister

  June 24, 2021

• Ebrahim Raisi wins Iran’s 2021 Presidential Election

  June 21, 2021

• UK and Australia agreed on historic free trade agreement

  June 18, 2021

• NATO leaders declare China a global security challenge

  June 16, 2021

• UAE, Brazil, Albania, Gabon, Ghana elected to UNSC

  June 16, 2021

• Naftali Bennett Takes Charge as Israel’s new Prime Minister

  June 15, 2021

• Israel will become the World’s First Mask-Free Country from June 15

  June 14, 2021

• Ex-Mongolian prime minister Khurelsukh won presidential election

  June 12, 2021

• Russian navy building first fully stealth warship

  June 11, 2021

• El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender

  June 10, 2021

• Interpol launches “I-Familia” to identify missing persons

  June 9, 2021

• G7 deal on Minimum Global Corporate Tax

  June 9, 2021

• Maldivian minister Abdullah Shahid elected President of 76th UNGA

  June 8, 2021

• United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: 2021-2030

  June 8, 2021

• Bill Gates and EU pledge $1 billion boost for green technology

  June 5, 2021

• China developed a combined air defence system along LAC

  June 4, 2021

• China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu

  June 3, 2021

• Isaac Herzog Elected as President of Israel

  June 3, 2021

• WHO names Covid-19 variants first found in India as ‘Kappa’ and ‘Delta’

  June 2, 2021