International News (3 – 8 Dec 2018)


  1. The 24th meeting of Conference of Parties (COP-24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) began in Poland on 3 December 2018.
  2. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was sworn in as the new Mexican President on 1 December 2018.
  3. Qatar will withdraw from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in January 2019.
  4. The ‘Asia Pacific Summit-2018’ was held in Kathmandu on 1 December 2018.
  5. Luxembourg is set to become the first country in the world to make all its public transport free.
  6. On 7 December 2018, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched a new framework named ‘UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact’ to combat international terrorism.
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