International News (17-22 Dec 2018)

1. Mount Soputan in central Indonesia erupted on 16 December 2018.
2. France will introduce its own tax, ‘GAFA tax’, on large internet and technology companies from 1 January 2019.
3. On 17 December 2018, UAE President Sheikh Khalifa Nahyan declared 2019 as the ‘Year of Tolerance’.
4. Nevada became the first state in the US with an overall female majority in its legislature on 18 December 2018.
5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced $1.4 billion financial assistance to the Maldives on 17 December 2018.
6. India and China held the first ever meeting of the ‘India-China High-Level Mechanism on Cultural and People-to-People Exchanges’.
7. The ‘9th India-South Korea Joint Commission’ meeting was held in New Delhi on 19 December 2018.

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