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| 2025 | Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting location and date to be announced |
| April 13 2025 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
Israel bombed a part of the hospital, destroying its emergency department.
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| 2025 | IDB President Ilan Goldfajn announced the intention to increase financing capacity by an additional $130 billion over a decade. |
| March 28 2025 | Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed a digitization agenda to modernize CIS economies, aiming to address economic challenges and improve regional technological development. |
| 2025 | 46th Southeast Asian Shooting Championship planned to be held in Taiwan, involving ASEAN and regional partners. |
| March 13 2025 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
UN investigation concluded that Israeli forces intentionally attacked and destroyed Al-Basma IVF Centre, finding no evidence of military use of the building.
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| March 13 2025 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
UN investigation concluded that Israel has committed genocidal acts in Gaza by systematically destroying its reproductive healthcare facilities.
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| March 10 2025 | Election to be held to choose the successor of Luis Almagro as OAS secretary general, whose term ends in May 2025. |
| March 2025 |
Killing of health workers in the Gaza war
Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics in southern Gaza, according to the United Nations. Their bodies were found in a mass grave with ambulances and a U.N. vehicle. One victim was found with hands tied. The IDF claimed to have killed a Hamas member, but this was disputed by the PRCS.
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| February 23 2025 | Masatsugu Asakawa's resignation from the presidency of the Asian Development Bank becomes effective. |
| 2025 | ASEAN has set a target to achieve 23% renewables in its primary energy supply through substantial investments and policy implementations. |
| February 2025 | AfDB and Interpol signed a letter of intent to pursue greater cooperation to combat corruption across the continent, as announced by AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina. |
| February 2025 | After the German federal election, CDU leader Friedrich Merz announced his intention to invite Netanyahu to Germany as a challenge to the ICC's arrest warrant decision. |
| January 2025 | United States-brokered ceasefire went into effect, with Hamas retaining control over the Gaza Strip as IDF withdrew. |
| 2024 | Analysis indicated that the SCO has generally facilitated amicable China-Russia relations, with members remaining neutral in the Russo-Ukrainian war while strengthening cooperation with Russia. |
| 2024 | Laos applied for Dialogue partner status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation |
| 2024 | Masatsugu Asakawa announced his resignation from the presidency of the Asian Development Bank, effective 23 February 2025. |
| 2024 | A recapitalization and new, pro-mobilization business model for IDB Invest was approved. |
| 2024 |
Palestine
Mohammad Mustafa is appointed as the new prime minister of Palestine following Shtayyeh's resignation.
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| 2024 |
Palestine
Mohammad Shtayyeh resigns as prime minister of Palestine.
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| 2024 | Hamas temporary committee decides to rule through committee until leadership elections in March 2025. |
| 2024 | Indonesia and Thailand were admitted as new member countries of the OECD. |
| 2024 | OECD established a Part I Budget totalling an estimated 229.9 million EUR, with contributions based on member countries' economic size and membership count. |
| December 2024 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
Andrew Cayley from the International Criminal Court stated that Israeli claims about Hamas use of hospitals are 'grossly exaggerated'.
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| December 4 2024 | During parliamentary discussions, Pashinyan stated that Armenia considers itself outside the CSTO and has 'crossed the point of no return'. |
| November 2024 | France argued that the ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders are not valid because Israel is not a member of the ICC. |
| November 2024 | ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Israel-Hamas war. Netanyahu accused the ICC of antisemitism, and Israel appealed the warrants. |
| October 2024 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
Kamal Adwan hospital director reported Israeli tanks completely surrounded the hospital, cut off electricity, and shelled the second and third floors. United Nations later stated a bombing destroyed critical hospital supplies following an Israeli siege.
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| October 2024 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
The Gaza Health Ministry reported that Israel had besieged and was directly targeting Al Awda Hospital, with strikes wounding several medical staff.
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| October 2024 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
Israel reportedly fired ten missiles at the Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia.
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| October 2024 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
An Israeli airstrike near the largest hospital in Deir al-Balah hit a mosque where displaced people were sheltering.
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| October 2024 |
Killing of health workers in the Gaza war
Doctors Without Borders reported 8 of its workers had been killed in Gaza since 7 October.
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| October 2024 |
Killing of health workers in the Gaza war
Doctors Without Borders condemned the killing of one of their workers in an airstrike that also killed fourteen children.
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| October 17 2024 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
Forensic Architecture released a subsequent visual investigation including situated testimony from doctors, continuing to cast doubt on the original explanation of the hospital incident.
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| October 16 2024 |
Palestine
Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, dies.
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| October 16 2024 | Mohammed Sinwar takes over leadership of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, succeeding Yahya Sinwar. |
| October 15 2024 | Planned Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting to be held in Islamabad, Pakistan |
| September 2024 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported that Israeli tanks fired at a medical convoy, despite having Israeli military clearance.
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| September 2024 |
Killing of health workers in the Gaza war
The Gaza health ministry reported 1,151 healthcare workers had been killed.
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| September 2024 | China's Ambassador to the Pacific, Qian Bo, successfully lobbied to remove references to Taiwan in the final communique of the leaders' summit in Tonga. |
| September 2024 | English edition of Shigehara's memoirs titled 'The Bank of Japan, the OECD, and Beyond' published by Palgrave Macmillan. |
| September 10 2024 |
Palestine 194
Scheduled implementation of UN rights for Palestine, including being seated with member states, introducing proposals and agenda items, and participating in committees, without voting rights.
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| August 2024 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
An Israeli rocket killed five members of a medical convoy for the American Near East Refugee Aid.
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| August 2024 |
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
An airstrike targeted displaced people's tents in Al-Aqsa Hospital's courtyard, resulting in four fatalities.
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| August 2024 | American Samoa and Guam were elevated to associate members of the Pacific Islands Forum. |
| August 2024 | Solomon Islands tabled a motion challenging Taiwan's participation in the Forum as a partner country. |
| August 17 2024 | CSTO countries reported to have neither supported nor condemned the Ukrainian invasion of Russia. |
| August 17 2024 | Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe becomes SADC Chairman |
| July 2024 |
Killing of health workers in the Gaza war
A Palestinian doctor and his family were killed by an Israeli airstrike after complying with an Israeli evacuation order.
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| July 2024 | OECD announced a transition to an open-access information model, adopting Creative Commons CC‑BY‑4.0 attribution licenses for all data and publications. |
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