gud morning friends! !!!!!! NEW APPOINTMENT IN WORLD 1. N. Srinivasan: appointed first chairman of International Cricket Council (ICC). 2. Michelle Howard became the first female four-star admiral in US Navy. She is the first women admiral in 236 year old history of US Navy. 3. Jean-Claude Juncker: named as next European Commission president 4. Chung Hung Won retained as Prime Minister of South Korea. 5. Mustafa Kamal: appointed New President of International Cricket Council (ICC). Note: Mustafa Kamal has become the first from Bangladesh to be president of International Cricket Council (ICC). 6. Indian-origin judge V.K. Rajah appointed as 8th Attorney-General of Singapore. 7. Juan Manuel Santos re-elected Colombia president. 8. Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Sam Kahamba Kutesa elected President for the 69th Session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). He replaced John William Ashe. Note: United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) comprises 193 member nations. 9. Emma Watson, the British Actress appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women. 10. Reuven Ruby Rivlin elected as 10th president of Israel. He succeed Shimon Peres. 11. Prince Zeid al Hussein (Jordan’s ambassador) nominated as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights 12. Bashar al‐Assad: elected Syria President for third time 13. Dalia Grybauskaite: new President of Lithuania 14. Peter Mutharika is new Malawi president 15. Abdel Fattah Al Sissi – new President of Egypt 16. Jacob Zuma sworn in as South Africas President for second term 17. Petro Poroshenko: New President of Ukraine 18. Hiroshi Naka appointed as Vice President and Auditor General of World Bank. 19. Kathleen Stephens Named Interim US Ambassador to India. 20. Maj. Gen. Kristin Lund appointed first woman to lead UN force. She replace Chinese Maj. Gen. Chao Liu. 21. Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan. New interim PM of Thailand: Note: Ms. Yingluck shinawatra and nine Cabinet members were forced to step down by the Constitutional Court, which found her guilty of abuse of power. 22. Ahmed Maiteeg : New PM of Libya 23. Juan Carlos: New President of Panama 24. Rajeev Suri: New Nokia CEO & President 25. Abdelaziz Bouteflika: New President of Algeria 26. Viktor Orban: New re‐elected PM of Hungary 27. Manuel Valls: New Prime Minister of France 28. Marie-Lousie Coleiro Preca: New President of Malta 29. Joseph Muscat: PM of Malta 30. Ibrahim Mahlab: New Prime Minister of Egypt. Ibrahim Mahlab replace Hazem el- Beblawi . 31. Michelle Bachelet: New President of Chile 32. Matteo Renzi: New Italys youngest PM. He is the 39 year old leader of the Centre-Left Democratic Party, 33. Arseniy Yatsenyuk : New Prime minister of Ukraine 34. Sushil Koirala: New PM of Nepal. He replaced Khi- Raj- Regmi. 35. John Thompson: New Chairman of Microsoft. He succeeded Bill Gates 36. Satya Nadella: New CEO of Microsoft. He replaced Steve Ballmer and he takes over as the third CEO of the Microsoft firm. 37. Marco Lambertini appointed as director- general of WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) International 38. Jens Stoltenberg: New Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). He replaces the incumbent Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. 39. Sheikh Hasina: New PM of Bangladesh. She belongs to Awami League party. 40. Janet Yellen: New chairman of the Federal Reserve. She succeeded Chairman Ben Bernanke. Janet Yellen, the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve in its 100 year history. Federal Reserve is the name of the Central Bank of US. 41. Abdul Basit: New Pakistani envoy to India: He replaces Salman Bashir. 42. Aizaz Chaudhry: New Foreign Secretary of Pakistan 43. Jalil Abbas Jilani: New Pakistani Ambassador to US 44. Sumith Nakandala: First Secretary General of BIMSTEC 45. Angela Merkel: begins third innings as German chancellor. 46. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed: New Prime Minister of Somalia. (Mogadishu is the Capital Somalia). 47. Ashraf Jehan: First female judge in Pak’s National Sharia Court
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