International

• Portugal’s Duarte Pacheco elected as President of IPU for 2020-23

  November 4, 2020

• Super Typhoon Goni hits the Philippines

  November 3, 2020

• Japan to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050

  October 30, 2020

• Luis Arce declared as Bolivia’s president-elect

  October 28, 2020

• Alpha Condé won the 3rd Term as President of Guinea

  October 27, 2020

• NATO plans to set up new space center in Germany

  October 27, 2020

• Indian-origin Wavel Ramkalawan elected President of Seychelles

  October 27, 2020

• Bangladesh govt orders ‘no mask, no service’ policy

  October 26, 2020

• Pakistan to remain in grey list of FATF till Feb 2021

  October 26, 2020

• Andorra Joins IMF as its 190th Member

  October 24, 2020

• Saad al-Hariri reappointed as Lebanon Prime Minister

  October 24, 2020

• Singapore becomes 1st country to use facial recognition to pay taxes

  October 21, 2020

• Jacinda Ardern wins 2nd term as New Zealand’s PM

  October 19, 2020

• Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov resigns

  October 16, 2020

• Russia approves 2nd coronavirus vaccine “EpiVacCorona”

  October 15, 2020

• FATF keeps Pakistan on enhanced follow-up list

  October 14, 2020

• Aava Murto becomes Finland’s PM post for a day

  October 12, 2020

• Jordan’s King Abdullah II appointed Bishr al-Khasawneh as PM

  October 9, 2020

• Russia successfully test-fires Tsirkon hypersonic missile

  October 8, 2020

• Kuwait Prime Minister Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah Resigns

  October 8, 2020

• China to send first-ever ‘asteroid mining robot’ into space

  October 6, 2020

• Moctar Ouane appointed as new Prime Minister of Mali

  September 29, 2020

• Lebanon’s PM designate Mustapha Adib steps down

  September 28, 2020

• Mohamed Hussein Roble appointed as new Prime Minister of Somalia

  September 25, 2020

• Former rebel leader Ishmael Toroama elected Bougainville president

  September 24, 2020

• Bah Ndaw named Mali’s interim president

  September 23, 2020

• Mexico issues world’s first sovereign bond

  September 18, 2020

• TikTok choses Oracle as its technology partner for its US operations

  September 15, 2020

• Yoshihide Suga to succeed Shinzo Abe as Japan’s PM

  September 15, 2020

• Australia appoints cricket icon Matthew Hayden as trade envoy to India

  September 8, 2020

• Trump announces Wilmington as 1st WWII Heritage City

  September 7, 2020

• Mustapha Adib becomes new Prime Minister of Lebanon

  September 2, 2020

• Ease of Doing Business report suspended by World Bank

  September 1, 2020

• World Health Organization certifies Africa free from wild Polio

  August 26, 2020

• China launches 5th Gaofen-9 series Earth observation satellite

  August 25, 2020

• Francisco Asue reappointed as PM of Equatorial Guinea

  August 21, 2020

• Keith Rowley becomes PM of Trinidad and Tobago for 2nd consecutive term

  August 21, 2020

• Luis Abinader becomes new President of Dominican Republic

  August 20, 2020

• Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigns after military mutiny

  August 19, 2020

• Israel successfully tested “Arrow-2” Ballistic Missile Interceptor

  August 14, 2020

• Historic peace agreement between UAE & Israel

  August 14, 2020

• Lebanon′s Govt resigns over deadly Beirut port blast

  August 12, 2020

• Russia becomes 1st country to register COVID-19 Vaccine

  August 11, 2020

• Walter Roger Martos Ruiz becomes new PM of Peru

  August 11, 2020

• Mohamed Ould Bilal becomes new Prime Minister of Mauritania

  August 11, 2020

• Belarusan President Alexander Lukashenko wins sixth term

  August 11, 2020

• Mahinda Rajapaksa takes oath as Sri Lankan PM for 4th time

  August 11, 2020

• Mauritius declares a “state of environmental emergency”

  August 10, 2020

• US Senate approves TikTok ban on government devices

  August 7, 2020

• Mark Phillips sworn in as Prime Minister of Guyana

  August 5, 2020