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Weekly Current Affairs

Published on 16 Aug 2026

The 10th BRICS Industry Ministers' Meeting in Jaipur adopted a Joint Declaration for sustainable industrial growth.
Lebanon’s Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty, replacing it with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour.
A Damascus court sentenced former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad to death in absentia for serious crimes linked to the civil war.
A new mountain horned dragon species, Acanthosaura syrax, was discovered in Thailand’s Mae Wong National Park as the 23rd recognised species of its genus.

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