International Current Affairs

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Their results have cleared the way for new technology based on quantum information.

World Teachers’ Day or International Teachers’ Day is observed every year on October 5. This is a day to celebrate, thank and honor teachers for their contributions to their students. This year marks the 28th anniversary of World Teachers’ Day and the theme is “The Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers”.

World Animal Day is observed every year on October 4 across the world. The day is aimed at promoting peaceful coexistence between animals and humans and making this world a safer place for animals. The theme for World Animal Day 2022 is Share Planet.

Foreign Ministers from Brazil, Russia, India, and China extended their full support to South Africa for its BRICS Chairship in 2023 and also for holding the fifteenth summit. BRICS foreign ministers held their annual meeting on the margins of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where the ministers said that they are looking forward to the Standalone Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Relations in South Africa in 2023

International Peace Day theme 2022 is ‘End Racism. Build Peace’. It sends the message of peace and harmony among the societies living globally. International Day of Peace is celebrated on Sep 21.

The death of Mahsa Amini is fueling outrage against Iran’s hijab laws and stoking criticism of the country’s clerical leadership. Mass protests are sweeping across Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian woman who died suddenly after she was detained by the country’s morality police.

Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022, at the age of 96. Her funeral was held on September 19, 2022, at Westminster Abbey in London. The funeral was a state funeral, which is the highest level of funeral ceremony in the United Kingdom. The funeral was attended by members of the royal family, heads of state, and other dignitaries from around the world.

Kazakhstan’s capital is set to soon be renamed back from Nur-Sultan to Astana after the Parliament endorsed the draft law on constitutional amendments required to rename the capital on Sept. 16. The document now awaits President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s discretion. President Tokayev had agreed to restore the former name of the country’s capital just three years after he proposed to rename it in recognition of the special role of the outgoing president Nursultan Nazarbayev, one of his first moves upon taking office in March 2019 when Nazarbayev unexpectedly stepped down.

Queen Elizabeth II was buried in the King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle. The chapel is located in the grounds of Windsor Castle, which is one of the Queen’s favorite homes. The chapel was built in the 1960s and is named after Queen Elizabeth II’s father, King George VI. The Queen’s coffin was interred in the chapel on September 19, 2022, following a funeral service at Westminster Abbey.