{"id":16023,"date":"2018-02-22T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T11:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/?p=16023"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T06:41:16","slug":"2017-in-review-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/studykit\/worldinfocus\/2017-in-review-international\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 in REVIEW (INTERNATIONAL)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2017<\/a><\/p>\n

Jan 02:<\/span><\/strong> India successfully test-fired its Agni-IV intercontinental ballistic missile.<\/p>\n

Jan 06:<\/span> <\/strong>Veteran actor Om Puri died.<\/p>\n

Jan 20:<\/span> <\/strong>Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.<\/p>\n

Jan 29<\/span><\/strong>: Iran tested a new ballistic missile, the Khorramshahr, having a range of 1,000 kilometers.<\/p>\n

Feb 17:<\/span> <\/strong>Scientists found that New Zealand sits atop a previously unknown continent Zealandia.<\/p>\n

Mar 06:<\/span><\/strong> The world’s longest serving warship INS Viraat was decommissioned by the Indian Navy.<\/p>\n

Mar 09:<\/span><\/strong> Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, won a second term as European Council President.<\/p>\n

Mar 10:<\/span><\/strong> South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office over a graft scandal, involving her friend.<\/p>\n

Mar 17:<\/span> <\/strong>Rima Khalaf, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, resigned after pressure from the UN Secretary-General to withdraw the report \u201cIsraeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mar 28:<\/span> <\/strong>US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to undo a slew of Obama-era climate change regulations.<\/p>\n

Mar 29:<\/span> <\/strong>British Prime Minister Theresa May gave EU President Donald Tusk formal notification of intention to withdraw from the EU.<\/p>\n

Apr 03:<\/span> <\/strong>The UNSC voted unanimously to end the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti.<\/p>\n

Apr 04:<\/span><\/strong> Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, won the A.M. Turing Award, computing’s version of the Nobel Prize, for 2017.<\/p>\n

Apr 13:<\/span><\/strong> The US military dropped the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ (MOAB), the largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed in combat, in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Apr 16:<\/span><\/strong> President Erdogan won the referendum on introducing presidential system in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Apr 19:<\/span> <\/strong>Chris Gayle became the first player to reach 10,000 runs in Twenty20 cricket.<\/p>\n

Apr 24:<\/span> <\/strong>Nasa astronaut Peggy Whitson set a new space record by marking 534 days in orbit.<\/p>\n

Apr 29:<\/strong> <\/span>EU leaders adopted their Brexit strategy.<\/p>\n

May 09:<\/span> <\/strong>Moon Jae-In won South Korea’s presidential election.<\/p>\n

May 14:<\/span> <\/strong>The two-day International Belt and Road forum kicked off in China.<\/p>\n

May 14:<\/span> <\/strong>Emmanuel Macron took power as the President of France.<\/p>\n

May 20:<\/span><\/strong> Iranian President Hassan Rouhani won a resounding re-election victory.<\/p>\n

May 23:<\/span> <\/strong>Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected the new Director-General of WHO.<\/p>\n

June 05:<\/span> <\/strong>Bahrain, UAE, Yemen and the Maldives joined Saudi Arabia and Egypt to cut ties with Qatar.<\/p>\n

June 08:<\/span><\/strong> Scientists discovered the hottest known exoplanet, designated KELT-9b.<\/p>\n

June 14:<\/span><\/strong> Telecom giant Verizon acquired Yahoo’s core business for $4.48bn (\u00a33.51m).<\/p>\n

June 15:<\/span><\/strong> Israel’s David Grossman won the Man Booker International Prize 2017.<\/p>\n

June 16:<\/span><\/strong> Germany’s longest serving post-war leader, Helmut Kohl, died at 87.<\/p>\n

June 19:<\/span> <\/strong>India and Afghanistan opened the first air cargo corridor between them.<\/p>\n

June 21:<\/span> <\/strong>Mohammed bin Salman was installed as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

June 22:<\/span> <\/strong>Afghanistan and Ireland were approved as Full Members by the ICC.<\/p>\n

July 03:<\/strong> <\/span>Narendra Modi became India’s first-ever Prime Minister to visit Israel.<\/p>\n

July 07:<\/span><\/strong> A global treaty banning nuclear weapons was adopted at the United Nations.<\/p>\n

July 12:<\/span> <\/strong>China established its first overseas military base in Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n

July 20:<\/span> <\/strong>BJP’s Ram Nath Kovind won the election to become the 14th President of India.<\/p>\n

Aug 22:<\/span><\/strong> India’s Supreme Court banned triple Talaq.<\/p>\n

Aug 22:<\/span> <\/strong>Donald Trump announced his new strategy for South Asia and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Aug 28:<\/span><\/strong> India and China agreed to pull back their troops from Dokhlam.<\/p>\n

Sep 10:<\/span> <\/strong>The first OIC Summit on Science and Technology was held in Astana, Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n

Sep 13:<\/span><\/strong> Halimah Yacob became Singapore’s first female president.<\/p>\n

Sep 15:<\/span> <\/strong>Norway’s Borge Brende was appointed the president of the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n

Sep 17:<\/span> <\/strong>Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s biggest dam, the Sardar Sarovar Dam, on the River Narmada in Gujarat State.<\/p>\n

Sep 20:<\/span> <\/strong>United Nations began signing the first treaty to ban nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Sep 27:<\/strong> <\/span>San Francisco-based Twitter started testing allowing tweets of 280 characters.<\/p>\n

Oct 01:<\/strong> <\/span>Catalonia overwhelmingly voted for independence from Spain.<\/p>\n

Oct 03:<\/strong> <\/span>Ex-Iraqi president and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani died in Germany.<\/p>\n

Oct 12:<\/span><\/strong> The United States announced to withdraw from UNESCO.<\/p>\n

Oct 12:<\/span><\/strong> Hamas and Al-Fatah signed a reconciliation deal which was brokered by Egypt.<\/p>\n

Oct 13:<\/span><\/strong> Audrey Azoulay of France was selected to head the UNESCO.<\/p>\n

Oct 22:<\/span> <\/strong>Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe swept to a resounding victory in a snap election.<\/p>\n

Oct 24:<\/span> <\/strong>The name of China’s president, Xi Jinping, was enshrined in the Communist Party\u2019s constitution alongside Chairman Mao.<\/p>\n

Oct 27:<\/span><\/strong> Burundi became the first ever nation to leave the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

Oct 29:<\/span> <\/strong>South Africa’s David Miller smashed the fastest century in Twenty20 International cricket.<\/p>\n

Nov 05:<\/span><\/strong> The Saudi government launched a sweeping purge of the country’s upper ranks.<\/p>\n

Nov 05:<\/span> <\/strong>The ICIJ released another treasure trove of data, dubbed Paradise Papers.<\/p>\n

Nov 15:<\/span><\/strong> Zimbabwe’s military took control of the country, ending the rule of President Mugabe.<\/p>\n

Nov 17:<\/span><\/strong> Toto Riina, one of the most feared godfathers of the Sicilian Mafia, died.<\/p>\n

Nov 24:<\/span><\/strong> Lionel Messi won the European Golden Shoe award.<\/p>\n

Nov 30:<\/span> <\/strong>The UN General Assembly voted to adopt the draft resolution ‘Jerusalem’.<\/p>\n

Dec 03:<\/span><\/strong> Iran inaugurated a $1 billion project to expand its southeastern Chabahar port.<\/p>\n

Dec 04:<\/span> <\/strong>Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country’s former president.<\/p>\n

Dec 04:<\/span> <\/strong>Noted Indian actor Shashi Kapoor died.<\/p>\n

Dec 05:<\/span><\/strong> The US Supreme Court ruled in favour of Trump’s revised ban on travellers from six countries.<\/p>\n

Dec 06:<\/span><\/strong> The Time magazine named \u201cThe Silence Breakers,\u201d the persons behind the #MeToo movement, its ‘Person of the Year’.<\/p>\n

Dec 08:<\/span><\/strong> Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal won his fifth Ballon d’Or award.<\/p>\n

Dec 13:<\/span> <\/strong>India’s Rohit Sharma became the first batsman to hit three double centuries in ODIs.<\/p>\n

Dec 14:<\/span><\/strong> European leaders inaugurated the landmark pact named Permanent Structured Cooperation on Defence, or Pesco.<\/p>\n

Dec 14:<\/span> <\/strong>Walt Disney Co. agreed to buy key film and television assets of 21st Century Fox, in a $52.4 billion deal.<\/p>\n

Dec 15:<\/span><\/strong> The emblems of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, respectively named ‘Winter Dream’ and ‘Flight’, were unveiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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