1. The P5+1 group comprising of US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany will hold talks with Iran in Geneva tomorrow over Teheran’s controversial nuclear program.
2. Iraqi today hanged 12 prisoners convicted of terrorism-related charges. A Justice Ministry official said that all of those executed were found guilty for carrying out terrorist attacks.
3. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be awarded the coveted Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2013 with an international jury headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh choosing her.
4. Iran on Monday unveiled a missile-equipped drone with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles), the official IRNA news agency reported.
5. The first branch of India’s first all-woman bank — Bharatiya Mahila Bank — opened in Lucknow on Tuesday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi inaugurated the branch via video conferencing from Mumbai
6. Defending champion Viswanathan Anand could not break through the defences of challenger Magnus Carlsen and had to be content with a draw in the eighth game of the World Chess Championship on Tuesday.
7. The UN Security Council has unanimously called on Somalia to pass laws banning seafaring pirates off its coasts and urged the east African nation to more aggressively combat them and the crime lords on land who finance and organize their raids.
8. The Palestinians cast a UN General Assembly vote for the first time and claimed the moment as a new step in their quest for full recognition by the global body.
9. With over 600 million people in India or 53 pc of Indian households defecating in the open, absence of toiletis one of the important contributors to malnutrition.
10. SC ordered an NHRC probe into alleged police brutality against Aam Aadmi Party workers who were protesting against non- registration of an FIR in a rape case.
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