WORLD AGENDA JUNE 2018

Jun 14-Jul 15, Russia: With a global TV audience of 3.2 billion four years ago, all eyes will be on Russia for the 21st FIFA World Cup – the first time the football tournament has been held in Eastern Europe. The 32 teams include defending champions Germany and newcomers, Iceland and Panama

Jun 8-9, Canada: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts G7 leaders at Charlevoix, Quebec. America’s unilateral decision to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal brokered by Barack Obama, and reinstate sanctions against the Islamic Republic, is likely to be high on the agenda

Jun 24, Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expects to win a third term in snap elections after 2017’s referendum gave him greater powers, moving Turkey ever further from its status as a parliamentary democracy

June, France: President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial immigration bill referendum gave him greater powers, moving Turkey ever further from its status as a comes before the Senate amid claims that it penalises asylum seekers and unreasonably extends detention times

Jun 24, Saudi Arabia: Women in the conservative nation will be allowed to drive a car following a royal decree issued in 2017. Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world to forbid women from driving

Jun 7, UK: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens in Britain and other capitals, ahead of its Jun 22 U.S. premiere. In 2015 Jurassic World beat The Avengers in global box office takings but 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War has laid down a strong challenge. It grossed $1bn worldwide in its first week of release

Jun 26, Poland: A dispute with the European Union over judicial reform gives the former Communist-led country until today to reassure the bloc it is not flouting the rule of law. Sanctions could follow if the EU is unconvinced

Jun 5, U.S.: Fifty years ago presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot and fatally
wounded at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, hours after winning the California
presidential primaries in the 1968 election. The brother of slain President John F. Kennedy died in the early hours of the next day



Sources: NewsAhead, Julie Mullins      Pictures: Newscom, Getty Images, UPI © GRAPHIC NEWS