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International Current Affairs: 1. The leaders of GCC countries concluded their 14th consultative summit under the chairmanship of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The GCC has decided to continue the moves for developing GCC union, while making consenses on all points with proposed member nations.

1. Bob Dylan is to be awarded with America’s highest civilian honour, the presidential medal of freedom.  He was praised by the White House as being among “the most influential American musicians of the 20th century”, as well. 2. The biggest search engine Google has awarded Google Photography Prize 2012 award to Sweden’s Viktor Johansson, earlier the names of the 10 Finalists for the Google Photography Prize 2012 were announced by Google.

1. The town of Halle in western Germany hosts the Gerry Weber Open, a grass court tournament that serves as a Wimbledon warmup, a street leading to the stadium, known as Weststrasse, is now called the Roger-Federer-Allee. 2. Cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar is likely to make an appearance in filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s forthcoming film, ‘Ferrari Ki Sawari’.

1. India’s leading discus thrower Krishna Poonia, created a new national record by winning the silver medal at the Altius Track Crew Throwdown meet in Maui Island, Hawaii.  Krishna hurled the discuss to 64.76 meters and broke the existing national record of Seema Antil who had hurled 64.64 meters. 2. India, according to a report published by the Brussels-based Security and Defence Agenda (SDA) and McAfee, ranked fifth in the list of countries affected…