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Affairs Complete 2019 | Current Affairs Today | National & International Updates 2019
13 December:
The Switzerland Parliament has approved
to grant Pakistan, among 18 countries, to access its financial
data starting from 2021.
03 December:
Pakistan made $1 billion foreign
debt repayment
02 December:
Megan Rapinoe wins Women's Ballon d'Or
2019, Lucy Bronze second
02 December:
Lionel Messi claimed record sixth
men's Ballon d'Or award at the age of 32 in Paris. Messi has scored
46 goals in 54 matches so far in 2019, and netted 36 times in total in 34 La
Liga matches
02 December:
Those Six EU countries who have joined
INSTEX are:Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden
02 December:
165,000 suffering from HIV virus in
Pakistan. Which is a 369% increase since 2010
01 December:
Iraq's parliament on Sunday accepted the
resignation of embattled Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi after
weeks of huge protests demanding better economic conditions and an
overhaul of the country's political system
27 October:
The Pentagon awarded
Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract named War Cloud,
snubbing early front-runner Amazon
20 October:
Australian carrier
Qantas has completed a test of the longest non-stop commercial passenger flight
as part of research on how the journey could affect pilots, crew and
passengers. The Boeing 787-9 with 49 people on board took 19 hours and
16 minutes to fly from New York to Sydney, a 16,200-km (10,066-mile) route.
20 October:
Pakistan Navy has joined the
Trans-Regional Maritime Network based in Italy. Trans-Regional Maritime Network
has 32 countries its members.
20 October:
PM Imran to inaugurate Kartarpur Corridor
on Nov 9
20 October:
Pakistan among top 10 countries for
Japan hiring.Dr Arif Alvi would be arriving in Japan to participate in the
coronation ceremony
19 October:
Qatar moves to announce abolishment of
kafala system
06 October:
Alagba, 344-Year-Old Tortoise,
"Oldest" In Africa, Dies
04 October:
EU allocates 300,000 euros to
provide emergency relief to victims of Sep 24 earthquake
03 October:
Pakistan loses Hyderabad Fund Case as UK
top court favours India. The Case: pertains to $39 million
that were transferred to Pakistan by the then Nizam of Hyderabad Osman
Ali Khan
27 September:
World Bank lists Pakistan among top 20
global reformers in Ease of Doing Business
Six European countries join barter system
for Iran trade(INSTEX) INSTEX barter mechanism: which is designed
to circumvent US sanctions against trade with Iran by avoiding use of the
dollar
19 September:
World's migrant
population now at 272 million - out of which 17.4 million are of
Indian Origin, UN report
19 September:
The German city of Dortmund
has withdrawn its decision to award a British Pakistani writer Kamila
Shamsie a literature prize, citing her support for the
pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement
15 September:
World's largest cantilever takes shape
in Dubai
15 September:
Waseem, who is now ranked ninth in the
world in the World Boxing Council (WBC) Flyweight Rankings, has set his
sights on breaking into the top five before he goes for the world title.
15 September:
India to offer Russia $1 billion loan
to develop Far East
15 September:
Polling booths have closed in Tunisia,
which is holding its second free presidential poll since the 2011
uprising that toppled ex-president Ben Ali and sparked the Arab Spring.
12 September:
NASA joins ISRO to aid in establishing
contact with Vikram moon lander
12 September:
Former captain of Pakistan's women
cricket team Sana Mir has been selected for prestigious Asia Game
Changers Award by the Asia Society.
12 September:
Water Discovered on Exoplanet: Eight
times the mass of Earth and twice as big, K2-18b orbits in its star's
"habitable zone" at a distance — neither too far nor too close —
where water can exist in liquid form
04 August:
The United States has imposed fresh
sanctions on Russia over the 2018 poisoning of former double agent
Sergei Skripal, an attack which took place in the United Kingdom.
04 August:
Saudi Arabia launches 5G
service in Makkah, other holy sites
02 July:
Shaikh Khalid Bin Sultan,
son of Sharjah Ruler, died in London
01 July:
As climate change
worsens, growing heat stress on workers in agriculture and other
sectors will cause a productivity loss equal to 80 million full-time jobs over
the next decade, the UN
29 June:
Pakistan to offer scholarships to around
3000 Afghan students
07 June:
Panama has been placed back
on an international money laundering watchlist by the FATF
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