Current Affairs Month Wise - International Current Affairs January 2012

International Current Affairs January 2012

• Cameron to face hacking probe against him
  Prime Minister David Cameron is likely to face hacking probe. Reports are rife that the P.M may be called before the public inquiry regarding the matter of the World phone-hacking scandal. He will be asked to answer questions about his linkups with Rupert Murdoch and his media group.
  
  The Times reported also stated that the inquiry may also call Mr. Murdoch to put forward his answers. Downing Street claimed that the P.M Mr. Cameron is willing to appear before the public enquiry if he is being called. The P.M spokesperson said that – the P.M’s office has not received any request to appear before the enquiry and even if they are going to receive it then the Prime Minister will definitely attend it. 
  
  The relationship of Mr. Cameron's with Mr. Murdoch and his newspaper group was under scrutiny following Murdoch newspapers move of shifting their support from Labour to the Conservative Party during the last general election.
  
  As per the, The Times report Mr. Cameron may be asked to elaborate about his controversial decision in which he decided to hire the former NoW editor Andy Coulson as his media chief. He was warned not to take such step as news about his links in the hacking allegation was on the rounds.
  
  Mr Coulson later resigned in January last year following the reopening of the case by the police. Mr. Coulson was soon arrested but later released on bail.

•  Boxer Amir Khan’s will have a Peterson rematch as ordered by WBA 
•  Promoter of boxing champion Amir Khan has said in an interview that the WBA has ordered for a rematch with American Lamont Peterson, in which the boxer was defeated on a split decision for the world title fight in Washington. Khan had lost his WBA super lightweight and IBF light welterweight titles and questioned at the appearance of an unknown man at the ringside. He accused the mystery man of interfering with the scoreboards of the judges.
  
  Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer told Sports News forum-“that he had been informed today by the WBA that they will order a rematch,". He further said that the unidentified man was an official of IBF whose name is Mustafa Ameen. Though the WBA was not available for comment but, the association’s vice-president Gilberto Jesus Mendoza told about a possible rematch.