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On 11th October 2022, Israel announced a deal with Lebanon to resolve a long-running maritime border dispute over Mediterranean waters.

It is the first agreement on border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel.    

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• The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) announced on 10 October 2022 that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will be the vice-chairperson for the event.

• President of Egypt, Prime Minister of Norway & Prime Minister of Pakistan will jointly chair COP27 from November 6 to November 18, 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt.

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• Mikhail Gorbachev was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.

• Mikhail Gorbachev died on 30 August 2022 at the age of 91.

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Mwai Kibaki died on 21 April 2022

Mwai Kibaki died aged: 90

Mwai Kibaki served 3rd President of Kenya:  December 2002 to 2013

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 Yawar Mehdi was a valuable asset to Radio Pakistan, where he served for a long time as a producer of radio programme Bazm-e-Talaba. He passed away on 19-01-2022.

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• The 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held on 3 August 2022 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
• The Meeting was chaired by Cambodia
• Theme “ASEAN A.C.T.: Addressing Challenges Together.”

• Note: Myanmar was banned after its military rulers declined a proposal to send a non-junta representative instead.

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 The Japanese government will provide $9 million to Pakistan for upgrading the mechanical system for sewerage and drainage services in Multan, agreement signed on August 3, 2022.

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A new World Bank report says 733 million people globally have no access to electricity, while 2.4 billion people are still using fuels detrimental to their health and the environment.

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Shehbaz Sharif visited Saudi Arabia from 28 April 2022 to 30 April 2022 at the invitation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

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Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists have been slain and their killers set free.

In the case of Somalia, there are 26 unsolved murder cases of journalists.

Afghanistan was on the fifth spot, followed by Mexico on the sixth place, Philippines on the seventh, Brazil on the eight and Pakistan on the ninth spot. Bangladesh was the 10th worst country with seven unsolved cases, followed by Russia and India with six and 17 unsolved murder cases of journalists on the Global Impunity Index 2020.