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f The United States has recently designated the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
as the ―major strategic partners of the country. This has been announced before the formal transition of
the president's office from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. This announcement of ―major strategic partners
was done by Kayleigh McEnany, the White House Press Secretary.

f Pakistan has issued special permission to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the Dubai Ruler;
the crown prince, and 5 members of the royal family for hunting houbara bustard during the 2020- 21
hunting season.
f Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni has been declared as the winner of the country's
presidential election for 2021. Museveni secured 58.64 per cent of the total votes cast, to win the sixth
term as the President.
f The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte and his entire Cabinet has resigned recently over the childcare
subsidies scandal, in which thousands of families were wrongly accused of child welfare fraud. However,
the Rutte government will stay on in a caretaker role until parliamentary elections in March 2021.
f Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States. He swore the oath of office moments after
Kamala Harris, who became America's first woman vice president, turning the page on Donald Trump's
tumultuous four years. At 78, Biden is the oldest president in US history and only the second Roman
Catholic president.
f The Prime Minister of Mongolia, Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, has resigned along with his entire government,
following protests and public outrage over the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
f China overtook Germany to become the country with the world's largest current account surplus in the
year 2020, as per a survey by the Munich-based Ifo institute. The current account surplus of China more
than doubled to $310 billion in 2020, while the current account surplus of Germany shrank for the fifth
year in a row in 2020 to $261 billion. The United States remained the country with the world's largest
current account deficit which rose roughly by a third to $635 billion in 2020 or 3.1% of economic output.
Japan ranked third with a current account surplus of $158 billion.
f The incumbent President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has won a second five-year term after
winning the 2021 Portuguese presidential election with a landslide victory.
f Kaja Kallas, the leader of the Reform Party will become Estonia's first female prime minister. The Reform
Party, led by Kallas, won the 2019 parliamentary election in Estonia with 34 MPs in the country's 101-seat
parliament, Riigikogu.
f Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte resigned after losing his Senate majority, plunging the country
into political uncertainty just as it's battling the pandemic and a recession. He tendered his resignation to
President Sergio Mattarella, the ultimate arbiter of Italian political crises, who invited him to stay on in a
caretaker capacity pending discussions on what happens next.
f India to chair 3 key subsidiary bodies of UN Security Council- The permanent Representative of India to
the UN, T S Tirumurti has announced that India has been asked to chair three important committees of
the UN Security Council (UNSC), during its tenure as a non-permanent member of the powerful 15-
nation UN body.
f The three highly significant committees include:
1. Taliban Sanctions Committee 2. Counter-Terrorism Committee
3. Libyan Sanctions Committee
Among these, India will chair the Counter-Terrorism Committee of UNSC in 2022, which coincides with
the 75th anniversary of India's independence. India began its two-year term at UNSC from January 01,
2021. It is the eighth time that the country has joined UNSC as the nonpermanent member. In 2021,

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