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Sweden holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1 January to 30 June 2023.

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• On 1 January 2023, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva replaced Jair Bolsonaro  to become president of Brazil

  
  

• Important Information Related to "Brazil"

Capital of Brazil: Brasília

Currency of Brazil: Brazilian real

The population of Brazil: 214 million (2021) World Bank

The official language of Brazil: Portuguese

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AGM 03-01-2023

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Croatia become the 27th country to join Europe's Schengen Area - a zone with no internal border controls, including passport checks from 1 January 2023.

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Indonesia`s parliament approved a new criminal code on December 6, 2022 that bans sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one year in jail.

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A deadly outbreak of Ebola virus has been stopped in its tracks and declared officially over in Uganda, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) announced on 11 January 2023.

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Novak Djokovic defeated Sebastian Korda in the final to win the men's singles title at the 2023 Adelaide International 1.

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Novak Djokovic defeated Sebastian Korda in the final to win the men's singles title at the 2023 Adelaide International 1.

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The United Nations General Assembly at its 75th session in March 2021 declared 2023 the International Year of Millets (IYM 2023).

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In January 2023, USA announced an additional $100 million of recovery and reconstruction funding, bringing the total US contribution to Pakistan’s relief funds to over $200m.