International Current Affairs and Current Events of 2018

 China has launched the world’s largest human genome research project.
 Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission.
 Ecuador has granted citizenship to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
 China has build the world’s biggest air purifier.
 ‘Bird language’ of Black Sea villagers in Turkey has been added to the UNESCO’s list Intangible Culture Heritage.
 World’s longest underwater cave has been discovered in Mexico.
 UAE inaugurated the world’s longest zip line.
 Krishna Kumari Kolhi becomes the first Hindu female lawmaker in Pakistan.
 Indian Navy has received access to Duqm port in Oman for use of military vessels.
 PM Narendra Modi inaugurated a project for the construction of the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi.
 Tanzania has announced to withdraw from the UN refugee programme.
 Bermuda has become the world’s first country to repeal same-sex marriage.(Netherlands has World’s first country to legalise same-sex marriage.)
 Programme ‘Vision for Future‘ was recently held in New Delhi to commemorate 70 years of India’s ties with Russia.
 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Liberian President, has been honored with the 2017 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership for excellence in African leadership.
 Philippines have announced to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (IIC).
 Singapore has declared to impose a ‘carbon tax’ from 2019 to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
 India was co-host the first International Solar Alliance (ISA) summit with France.
 World’s last Northern white male rhinoceros, named ‘Sudan’, died in Laikipia National Park in Kenya.
 Saudi Arabia launched its first commercial movie theater after a nearly 40 year ban.
 The 2018 cultural festival ‘India by the Nile’ has held in Egypt.
 Mike Pompeo has sworn in as 70th Secretary of State of USA.
 Argentina hosted the first G-20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of 2018.
 Indonesia has agreed to give India economic and Military access to Sabang port.
 Colombia to become the first Latin American ‘global partner‘ of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
 Real Madrid won the UEFA Champions League final, held in Kiev, Ukraine.
 Japan women badminton team won the Uber Cup and China men badminton team won the Thomas Cup, held in Bangkok.
 South Africa, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Germany and Belgium were newly elected non-permanent members to the UN Security Council.
 Fuego volcano, which erupted recently, is located in Guatemala.
 Mount Agung volcano, which erupted recently, is located in Bali, Indonesia.
 Kilauea volcano, which erupted recently, is located in Hawaii.
 Mount Merapi volcano, which erupted recently, is located in Indonesia.
 Vladimir Putin has been awarded China’s first friendship medal.
 Aleksandra Liashkova, who crowned the Miss Supermodel Worldwide 2018, is belonging to Belarus.
 Azerbaijan to host the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Mid-Term Ministerial Conference 2018.
 Nepal is hosting the first International conference on ‘Water, Environment and Climate Change: Knowledge Sharing and Partnership’.
 Bangladesh has decided to end reservation in Government jobs.
 Saudi Arabia is hosting the 29th Arab League Summit 2018.
 United Kingdom is hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2018).
 Yusuf Salim has become first visually impaired judge in Pakistan.
 17th World Sanskrit Conference was inaugurated by the Shri Pakash Javadekar, Union Human Resource Development Minister in Canada.
 United Kingdom hosted the Global Malaria Summit 2018.
 Mahmoud Abu Zeid from Egypt has won the 2018 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
 Canada to host the world’s first-ever female foreign ministers’ meeting.
 Lumbini, Nepal hosted the 2018 International Buddhist Conference.
 The first-ever India-South Africa Business Summit (ISABS – 2018) was held in Johannesburg.
 Deepa Ambekar Indian-American personality has been appointed as the interim judge to a US civil court of New York City.
 The Communications exercise ‘Pacific Endeavor’ 2018(PE-18) has been started in Nepal.
 Philippines hosted the 12th informal meeting of SAARC finance Ministers.
 Philippines was recently affected by Typhoon Karding and Typhoon Mangkhut.
 USA was recently affected by Hurricane Florence.
 Typhoon Jebi and Typhoon Trami most powerful to hit Japan.
 Mauritius’s Cyber Town named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
 India-born Indra Nooyi will be honoured with the 2018 Asia Game Changer of the Year award by global cultural organisation Asia Society.
 China is using Keeko robots to teach the Kindergarten children.
 South Africa hosted the 26th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change.
 Abhay K has become the first Indian Poet invited to record his poems at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
 Germany to host the 2018 Global Wind Summit.
 Delhi’s “Happiness Class” For School Kids to be adopted by Afghanistan.
 South Africa is hosting the 2018 BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting.
 Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Auditorium was built with Indian grant assistance in Sri Lanka.
 India has set up an ‘Ayush Information Cell’ in Romania.
 Nepal to host the 2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
 Doob has been chosen as Bangladesh’s official entry for the Oscars 2019.Indian actor Irrfan Khan has worked in this movie.
 World’s first hydrogen power train was rolled out in Germany.
 China to launch three artificial moons in space in 2022 with mirrors to provide 24 hour sunlight.
 China has built an Artificial Sun which is six times hotter than the Sun core.
 China has successfully tested the world’s largest unmanned transport drone Feihong-98 (FH-98.
 PayTm has launched ‘PayPay‘ mobile wallet in Japan.
 Jaipur Literature Festival was held in Houston, USA.
 United States has recently withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHR).
 The world’s first all-digital art museum has opened in Japan.
 Indonesia’s Medan city inaugurates ‘Little India Gate’
 A sculpture in honour of Indian Soldiers who fought during the first World War was unveiled in England.
 Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the first India bulit war memorial in France.
 Malala Yousafzai was conferred with the Gleitsman Award 2018.
 China has unveiled the world’s first underground hotel.
 Milie Bobby Brown has been appointed as UNICEF new Goodwill Ambassador.
 Kim Jong yang has been elected as the new president of Interpol.
 ‘The English Patient’ the wartime love story by Michael Ondaatje novel has won the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize.
 Singapore is hosting the 6th edition of biennial World Cities Summit (WCS-2018).
 China’s researchers have claimed to create the world’s first single-chromosome yeast.
 Michelle Bachelet has been officially appointed new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
 Susane Giti has been appointed the first-ever female major general in the 47 years history of Bangladesh.
 India, Afghanistan and Iran recently hold their first trilateral meeting on Chabahar port project in Tehran.
 Arif Alvi has been elected as the new President of Pakistan.
 Tahira Safdar has been sworn-in as the first female high court Chief Justice in Pakistan.
 Netherland is host to the 4th International Ayurveda Congress (IAvC) 2018.
 Japan is the first country to successfully land robotic rovers on an asteroid Ryugu.
 The world’s largest airport ‘Under One Roof’ has officially opened in Istanbul.
 Seychelles has launched the world’s first Sovereign Blue Bond.
 The 5th edition of World Buddhist Forum (WBF -2018) was recently held in China.
 China’s news agency ‘Xinhua’ has recently launched the world’s first AI news anchor.
 Republic of Palau has become the world’s first nation to ban reef-killing toxic sunscreen.
 Nairobi, Kenya is the venue of the first-ever Sustainable Blue Economy Conference 2018.
 UAE has recently declared 2019 as ‘Year of Tolerance’.
 Luka Modric has won the 2018 Balkan Athlete of the year.
 Japan government has recently enacted controversial law to accept foreign blue-collar workers.
 Luxembourg becomes the world’s first country to make all its public transport free by 2019.
 Jamal Khashoggi from Soudi Arabia, who has been named Time magazine’s 2018 “Person of the Year”.
 Australia has become the world’s first nation to recognize ‘orphanage trafficking’ as a form of modern slavery.
 The world’s first Floating Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) has become operational in Russia.
 Maldives cabinet has approved the proposal to rejoin the Commonwealth, two years after withdrawing from the 53 nation grouping.
 India-China held the ninth Annual Defence and Security Dialogue in Beijing.
 Tajikistan has inaugurated the world’s tallest hydro-electric dam named Rogun Dam.
 Ukraine country has imposed the martial law.
 Slovenia has become the first North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) country with the female Army Chief to the post of Head of its Army.
 Reggae music of Jamaica was included to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list recently.
 Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was recently stripped off the Freedom of Paris award.
 Britain government has amended the Offensive Weapons Bill 2018 to ensure right to possession of kirpans by Sikhs.
 Qatar withdraws from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in January 2019.
 World’s first baby via womb transplant from dead donor was born in Brazil
 Vanessa Ponce de Leon who won Miss World Crow 2018 hails from Mexico.
 Catriona Gray who won Miss Universe 2018 hails from Philippine.
 Malala Yusufzai has won 2018 Gleitsman Award by Harvard University.
 The European Parliament has approved a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union, covering 635 million people and almost one third of the world’s economy.
 Kenya has replaced the images of presidents from newly minted cash coins with animals.
 Heather Nauert has nominated as the US Ambassador to the ‘United Nations’.