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India protested China's decision, and cancelled its sports minister's visit to the games. [99] North Korea was under WADA sanctions disallowing its flag from being used, but OCA allowed the North Korean flag to be officially used anyway. WADA sent an official warning to OCA over the incident, [100] and later fined the OCA $500,000 (USD). [101]
The Netherlands regards Hezbollah as terrorist discussing it as such in official reports of their general intelligence and security service [460] and in official answers by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. [461] On 22 July 2013, the European Union declared the military wings of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization; effectively blacklisting the ...
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,569 km 2 (138,058 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
The 2014 Asian Games (2014년 아시아 경기대회/2014년 아시안 게임), officially known as the 17th Asian Games (제17회 아시아 경기대회/제17회 아시안 게임) and also known as Incheon 2014 (인천2014), was a pan-Asian multi-sport event held from 19 September to 4 October 2014 in Incheon, South Korea.
The Government of Uttarakhand is a democratically elected body in India with the governor as its constitutional head and is appointed by the president of India for a five-year term. The leader of the party or coalition with a majority in the Legislative Assembly is appointed as the chief minister by the governor, and the council of ministers is ...
1 January - ISRO successfully launches its first X-Ray polarimeter satellite XPoSat to study the polarization of intense X-Ray sources in space. [1]2 January - 2023–2024 Indian truckers' protests: Protests were organized by Indian truckers against the severity of the newly proposed law in dealing with the hit-and-run cases.
The official and national language is Dhivehi, an Indo-Aryan language closely related to the Sinhala language of Sri Lanka. The first known script used to write Dhivehi is the eveyla akuru script, which is found in the historical recording of kings (raadhavalhi). Later a script called Dhives akuru was used for a long period.