PARIS – Here is a panorama of world events in 2014:JanuaryCENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Bangui mayor Catherine Samba-Panza, is elected interim president.February UKRAINE: Security forces crack down on pro-European protestors in Kiev’s central Independence Square, or Maidan. More than 100 people die. President Viktor Yanukovych flees to Russia. On May 25 a pro-western billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, is elected to replace him.ITALY: Matteo Renzi, 39, becomes the European Union’s youngest prime minister.MarchMALAYSIA: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard, disappears. Despite extensive searches it has not been found.UKRAINE: Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea votes …read more
Source: AsiaOne
