Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 2 July 2015

::International ::

The United States and Cuba have agreed to open embassies in each other’s capitals, the biggest tangible step in the countries’ historic bid to restore ties after more than a half-century of hostilities.
The U.S. and Cuba have been negotiating the re-establishment of embassies following a surprise December announcement that secret talks had led to an agreement to restart ties.
Ending the U.S. freeze with Cuba is central to Mr. Obama’s foreign policy legacy as he nears the end of his presidency. He has long promoted the value of direct engagement with global foes and has argued that the U.S. embargo on the communist island just 145 km south of Florida was ineffective.
The U.S. cut off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961 after Fidel Castro’s revolution.
It spent decades trying to overthrow Cuba’s communist government or isolate the island, including toughening the economic embargo first imposed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Since the late 1970s, the countries have operated diplomatic missions, called interests sections, in each other’s capitals. The missions are technically under the protection of Switzerland and do not enjoy the same status as embassies.

The UN rights body adopted without a vote a resolution on addressing the human rights situation of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar, nearly a month after a regional crisis erupted with hundreds of migrants from the nation found adrift in the Bay of Bengal.
The resolution, which was to be considered yesterday but could not proceed due to the absence of the delegation of the country concerned - Myanmar - in a rare occurrence, was subsequently adopted in the UNHRC without a vote.
India yesterday disassociated itself from the resolution, saying it is "highly prescriptive and not consistent with the broad ethos" of the work of the Council.
In recent years, tens of thousands of persecuted Rohingya Muslims besides Bangladeshi economic migrants have fled on boats across the Bay of Bengal in search of better prospects.

Ace Indian tennis star Sania Mirza has become the first woman tennis player from the country to be top-seeded in this year's ongoing Wimbledon championships.
Sania and her partner at Wimbledon, veteran Martina Hingis, beat Diyas and Zheng 6-2, 6-2 to progress.
The 28-year-old Sania, who is playing in her 15th year at the Wimbledon, is in fact the first Indian woman to achieve the feat in any Grand Slam competition.
The only other Indians getting the top draw in a Grand Slam earlier were Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi in the 1999 French Open men’s doubles competition.