Top political image of the world in july 2012

26 July 2012 – 

The United Nations is not packing up and going home, the world body’s top peacekeeping official told reporters in the Syrian capital today, noting that the observers sent home this week could be recalled if circumstances in the country change.

Business secretary Vince Cable explains why he is focusing on the British aerospace industry, the world’s second largest, and how he can help develop new aircraft programmes, 24 Jul 2012

On the fourth day of the holy month of Ramadan, bombs went off simultaneously in 14 Iraqi cities, marking a new peak in al-Qaeda activity since the withdrawal of American troops at the end of last year. The terrorist network is shamelessly exploiting the way people behave during Ramadan, as Birgit Svensson reports from Baghdad.

Australia is the world's largest coal exporter and one of the biggest per capita greenhouse gas emitters. On 1 July 2012 - after years of political wrangling - Prime Minister Julia Gillard introduced a new carbon tax, forcing the country's worst-polluting firms to pay a levy for every tonne of greenhouse gases they produce.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney caused controversy after insulting Britain's organisation of the Games as he visited London. Saturday, 28 July 2012

Ahmad Khan Samangani, a well- known politician of Afghanistan was killed by a suicide attack while he was in his daughter’s wedding party. On 14^th July, 2012, Ahmad Khan was amidst a social gathering when a suicide bomber pretended to be a guest and detonated the bomb killing the Uzbek MP and 22 other innocent people. The incident occurred in Aybak, the provincial capital. Ahmad Khan Samangani was elected as the Member of Parliament last year and had served as a member of the Mujahideen during Afghanistan civil wars.

It’s been a year since South Sudan raised its new flag in Juba, becoming the world’s newest country and leaving the rest of Sudan to fend for itself. The separation has not been easy. SIMON ALLISON assesses the state of the troubled nations. 10 JULY 2012 02:18 (SOUTH AFRICA)

Women in Beit al-Faqih, Yemen receive instructions in July 2012 prior to the distribution of humanitarian aid. Located in western Hudayda province, the already impoverished town is among the hardest hit by Yemen's current hunger crisis.

Australian census: not quite the US, but income gap widens, 2 July 2012, 10.12am 

political situation in Syria 2012

Moscow, June 25 (Interfax) - Syrians must resolve the political situation in their country themselves, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. June 25, 2012, 9:31 a.m.

Syrians who reside in Egypt join a rally outside Arab League headquarters in Cairo during an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss the political situation in Syria on Thursday.

AFP | Apr 27, 2012

A general view shows Arab League foreign ministers attending an emergency meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, to discuss the political situation in Syria on April 26, 2012. 

190 killed in Syria on Thursday; insurgents seize two generals. Demonstrators gather after Friday prayers in Deraa, Syria. Members of the U.N. Security Council are meeting today to discuss the country’s political situation. Saturday June 30, 2012 6:15 AM

Syria looks more like Libya every day

 January 24, 2012 

An undated handout photograph made available by the Local Coordination Committes (LCC) in Syria on 18 February 2012, shows Syrians holding a placards and a revolutionary flag, during a protest in Marea, Allepo, Syria, 17 February 2012. 

A Free Syrian Army soldier checks his rifle at the Bab Al-Salam border crossing to Turkey July 22, 2012. Syrian forces regained control of one of two border crossings seized by rebels on the frontier with Iraq, Iraqi officials said, but rebels said they had captured a third border crossing with Turkey, Bab al-Salam north of Aleppo. "Seizing the border crossings does not have strategic importance but it has a psychological impact because it demoralises Assad's force," a senior Syrian army defector in Turkey, Staff Brigadier Faiz Amr, told Reuters by phone. Thu, Jul 19, 2012

Since the Syrian uprising began last year, Iran has stood firmly by Bashar al-Assad. To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president. This unwavering support, however, does not mean that Iran believes in a security solution to the crisis in Syria, nor does it mean that it regards such a solution as being in line with its strategic interests in the region.June 27, 2012

Free Syrian Army fighters console a comrade after an ambulance carried an injured friend to a hospital during fierce fighting against government troops in Idlib on Saturday. Mar 10, 2012 10:33 PM ET

Note to Syria interventionists: Be careful what you wish for

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india presidential election 2012

The race for selecting the 13th President of India will kickstart on Thursday, June 28, 2012 when both ruling UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee and Opposition BJP-backed candidate PA Sangma will file their nominations for 2012 Presidential Election in India.

Chief Minister of West Bengal state Mamata Banerjee, center, waits in a queue to cast her vote during India's Presidential elections in Kolkata, India, Thursday, July 19, 2012.

Candidate of India's ruling alliance Pranab Mukherjee casts his vote in India's presidential election as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, along with other lawmakers look on in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 19, 2012. The Indian president is chosen by an electoral college composed of lawmakers from state assemblies and the federal Parliament. The results are expected Sunday.

Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa votes in the presidential election in Chennai on Thursday. 20th July 2012 10:23 AM.

The Prime Minister,Dr. Manmohan Singh casting his vote in the Presidential election at Parliament House,in New Delhi on July 19, 2012.The Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources,Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal is also seen.

PM, Pranab and Sonia vote in presidential election

Top 10 Most Powerful People In The World 2011

1.Hu Jintao

Age: 68

Title: President, People’s Republic of China

Salary: $400,000

2. Barack Obama

Age: 49

Title: President, United States of America

Net Worth: $10.1 million

Salary: $400,000

                          3. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud

Age: 86

Title: King Of Saudi Arabia

Net Worth: Literally owns the whole Saudi Arabia. The GDP of Saudi Arabia $443.691 billion.

                                        4. Vladimir Putin

                                                                      Age: 58

Title: Prime Minister, Russia

Net Worth: $40 billion

Salary: $126,000

                                    5. Pope Benedict XVI

Age: 84

Title: Pope, Roman Catholic Church

Net Worth: The Pope is the head of the Roman Catholic Church, which has billions of dollars if not more . Vatican holds priceless treasures.

                                       6. Angela Merkel

Age: 57

Title: Chancellor, Germany

Net Worth: $11.5 Million

Salary: $303,800

                                    7. David Cameron

Age: 44

Title: Prime Minister, United Kingdom

Net Worth: £30 million

Salary: £225,000

                                     8. Ben Bernanke

Age: 57

Title: Chairman, Federal Reserve

Salary: $199,700

                                     9. Sonia Gandhi

Age: 64

Title: President, Indian National Congress

Net Worth: $18.66 billion

                                             10. Bill Gates

Age: 55

Title: Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Net Worth: $56 billion

political condition of Libya of 2012

Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli,Libya in February 2012

B. Lynn Pascoe (left), Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, speaks with Members of the Security Council, including (from right), Susan Rice of the United States; Gérard Araud of France; Peter Wittig of Germany; and Mark Lyall Grant of the United Kingdom; before the Council’s meeting on the situation in Libya. (29 February 2012)

Ruling party candidate Danilo Medina celebrates with gestures after learning the results of the presidential elections in Santo Domingo May 21, 2012.

US Senator John McCain (C), speaks about Libyan elections, during a press conference, in Tripoli, Libya, 07 July 2012. Voters were to head to the polls across Libya on 07 July to elect a 200-seat National Congress, which will have legislative powers and appoint a new government, amid fears of violence and calls for boycott in eastern cities. Around 2.7 million Libyans have registered to vote to elect the assembly, consisting of 120 directly elected members and 80 for contenders from party lists

Al Watan Islamist party candidate Radya Abu Rawee Muhamed Al Wareemi smiles during an election campaign rally in Tripoli July 2, 2012

A man puts up a poster of Ali Kulaish, a candidate running for Libya's National Congress election in Benghazi July 4, 2012

Man walks past election material as Libya prepares to vote

Election officials work at a polling station in Tripoli on Friday, July 6, 2012. Libya goes to the country's first free election since 1969 on Saturday.

7 Jul 2012: Voter registration has led even the most conservative parties to join the rush to woo the female electorate.

Libya elections: polling station raids mar first vote since Gaddafi's death,7 Jul 2012

Mahmoud Jibril’s National Forces Alliance may secure a landslide victory in Libya’s historic National Conference elections, the Libya Herald reports.

Most wanted political images of 2011

Children from public schools in the town of Chatfield, Minnesota, help U.S. President Barack Obama get up after he posed with them for a picture, during his bus trip to the Midwest August 15, 2011

France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy wipes the brow of her husband, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, as they visit a market in Fort-de-France January 8, 2011

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her PDA upon her departure in a military C-17 plane from Malta bound for Tripoli, Libya October 18, 2011.

A young girl gives a kiss to France's former president Jacques Chirac as he sits at a table outside the famous Le Senequier cafe in the French Riviera sea resort of Saint-Tropez on August 14, 2011.

US President Barack Obama (L) and British Prime Minister David Cameron (R) play table tennis with students of the Globe Academy school in London on May 24, 2011

Canada's Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff hands out hot dogs for lunch at Kelekis restaurant in Winnipeg, Manitoba March 31, 2011.

The body of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il lies in state at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang on December 20, 2011. Concerns mounted over what would happen next in the deeply secretive nation that is trying to build a nuclear arsenal.

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi adjusts his tie next to Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as they take part in the traditional family photo during the G20 Summit of major world economies in Cannes November 3, 2011.