World Geography and Capitals

Manama is the capital and largest city of Bahrain.

Monaco is the second smallest country in the world, following Vatican City.

Rabat is the capital city of the Kingdom of Morocco.

Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.

Aleppo University is a public university located in Aleppo, Syria.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is headquartered in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines.

The headquarters of the International Telecommunication Union are in Geneva. The International Telecommunication Union is a specialised agency of the United Nations that is responsible for issues that concern information and communication technologies.

The headquarters of UNO are in New York.

Nicosia is the capital of Cyprus.

Tehran is the capital of Iran.

Europe's sovereign debt crisis dominated talks at the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in the South Korean city of Busan on June 4, 2010.

The BRIC group of the world's four biggest emerging powers has a fundamental role in creating a new world order, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said at the Brazil-Russia-lndia-China (BRIC) Summit in Brasilia on April 15, 2010. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pitched for close cooperation among BRIC countries in the fields of energy and food security besides tapping potential in other sectors like trade and investment, science and technology and infrastructure.

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on May 19, 2010 announced full control of the situation after crushing a two-month protest and imposing an overnight curfew in the capital, Bangkok, and over 20 provinces. The protest movement is led by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) which is a group of loyalists (Red Shirts) of Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed in a military coup in 2006 and is now living in self-imposed exile. The Red Shirt protesters have been demanding immediate dissolution of the House of Representatives and a new general election.

Salman Khurshid, Minister of Minority Affairs and Corporate Affairs, represented India at the 6th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), organised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from May 18-20, 2010. Themed 'Building Bridges Through Business', the WIFE was dedicated to building bridges through business between the Muslim and non-Muslim world.