Saturday 7 November 2015

World This Week: 26 October-1 November 2015

26 October 2015
• Law and Justice Party won Poland’s Parliamentary Elections 2015
• ICC released Test, ODI, T20I and Women’s Ranking
• IOC allowed refugees to compete in Olympics for the first time
• China launched third mapping satellite of Tianhui-1 series

27 October 2015
• Russia to launch manned moon missions by 2029
• Sylvie Lucas appointed as Chair of the IGN on UNSC reforms
• Britain's Curry King Lord Gulam Noon Died
• India and Sri Lanka began Joint Naval Exercise SLINEX 2015 at Trincomalee
• World Bank Doing Business 2016 report released
• Citibank appointed Samiran Chakraborty as Chief Economist for India
• Exim Bank announced setting up of project development firm KPDC in Africa
• 191 UNGA-members voted a resolution condemning US embargo on Cuba

28 October 2015
• Bidhya Devi Bhandari elected as first women President of Nepal
• India, France signed MoU to conserve and publicize written heritage
• Freedom on the Net 2015 Report released
• Nepal signed MoU with China to ease fuel crisis
• Global Tuberculosis Report 2015 released by WHO

29 October 2015
• John Pombe Magufuli won the Presidential Elections of Tanzania
• China abandoned its decades old 'One Child Policy'
• European Parliament gave status of whistle-blower to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden
• Saudi blogger Raif Badawi awarded 2015 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
• Activist Bindeshwar Pathak selected for New York Global Leaders Dialogue Humanitarian Award

30 October 2015
• BRICS nations signed Moscow Declaration for supporting Multilateral Science Projects
• Paul Ryan elected as 54th Speaker of US House of Representatives
• American actor Al Molinaro passed away

31 October 2015
• New Zealand won Rugby World Cup for record third time
• Russian plane Airbus A321 crashed in Sinai 
• China made sexual assault on men a crime

1 November 2015
• Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis won women's doubles title of Singapore Open
• Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal to win Swiss Indoors title

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