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International Current Affairs
- Today (15th December) is International Tea Day.
- This day aims to draw global attention of governments and citize4ns to the impact of the global tea trade on workers, small growers and consumers.
- Note : The 1st International Tea Day was celebrated in New Delhi on 15th December 2005.
- Reversing decades of Middle East policy, the Australian government formally recognised West Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
- Note : Israel regards all of Jerusalem as its capital, including the eastern sector that it annexed after the 1967 Middle East war.
- The German Parliament today approved 'Diverse' as a 3rd gender option on official records.
- The move followed a ruling by Germany's highest court which required the government to either allow a third gender or to scrap gender classification altogether.
