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2012  March 15
 
    
Th Taliban response to the murder of villagers is to suspend peace talks with the US and the Karzai government       
2012  April 1
 
    
Aung San Suu Kyi and her party win almost all the 45 seats in Burma's nation-wide by-elections       
2012  April 13
 
    
The rocket Kwangmyongsong-3 breaks up less than two minutes after its launch, in North Korea's third attempt to put a satellite into space       
2012 June 24
 
 
Mohamed Morsi, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, wins the presidential elect in Egypt with 51% of the vote    
2012  May 6
 
    
François Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy and becomes president of France       
2012  May 10
 
   
The largest US bank, JPMorgan Chase, announces losses of two billion dollars      
2012  May 22
 
    
A pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for US $120 million, by far the record for any work of art       
2012  June 2
 
   
An Egyptian court sentences former president Hosni Mubarak to life imprisonment      
2012  June 8
 
    
The UN declares that the violence in Syria has become civil war       
2012  June 19
 
    
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, breaks bail and seeks asylum in the Equadorian embassy in London