International Current Affairs

The Philippines has been recently hit by Tropical Storm Megi and the death toll from landslides and floods after the storm rose to 58. Over 1,00,000 people in southern and eastern Philippines islands have been affected by the storm. Villages around Baybay city in the central Leyte province are worse hit by the storm.

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed as the first African-American woman to serve as a justice of the United States Supreme Court. On April 7, 2022, by a vote of 53-47, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Jackson to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, for whom she previously served as a law clerk. Jackson will be sworn in after Breyer’s retirement takes effect at the end of the 2021-22 Supreme Court term.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Ax-1, a mission from Houston-based Company Axiom Space. It is the first fully private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The four-member crew officially began a ten-day journey that will include eight days aboard the International Space Station. Their capsule is known as Endeavour.

The tower, completed in 1972 and designed by renowned architect Kisho Kurokawa, is a landmark of the Metabolism movement, which aimed to create sustainable living spaces that people could take with them if they moved. The owners plan to extract some of the white cuboid capsules before demolition begins on April 12, Tatsuyuki Maeda, who refitted several of them himself.

The 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup was the twelfth edition of the Women’s Cricket World Cup, which was held in New Zealand in March and April 2022. It was originally scheduled for 6 February to 7 March 2021 but was postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 15 December 2021, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the tournament would start on 4 March 2022, with the final scheduled for 3 April 2022. In the final of the tournament, Australia beat England by 71 runs to win their seventh World Cup. Australia’s Alyssa Healy scored 170 runs in the match, the highest individual score made by any cricketer, male or female, in the World Cup Final.

The plenary body of Chile’s Constitutional Convention formally approved the Rights of Nature within its proposed constitutional text. The Chilean people will now vote on the final version. After the vote, Chile could become the second such country in the world besides Ecuador.

The 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup is the twelfth edition of the Women’s Cricket World Cup, which is being held in New Zealand in March and April 2022. It was originally scheduled for 6 February to 7 March 2021 but was postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 15 December 2021, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the tournament would start on 4 March 2022, with the final scheduled for 3 April 2022.

The theme for 2022 is “Forests and sustainable production and consumption”. When we drink a glass of water, write in a notebook, take medicine for fever, or build a house, we do not always make the connection with forests. And yet, these and many other aspects of our lives are linked to forests in one way or another. The UN General Assembly proclaimed 21 March as the International Day of Forests in 2012