Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 05, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine`s streets

• Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes on Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, some of whom had seemingly been killed at close range.
• The grisly images of battered bodies out in the open or in hastily dug graves led to calls for tougher sanctions against the Kremlin, namely a cutoff of fuel imports from Russia. Germany reacted by expelling 40 Russian diplomats, and Lithuania threw out its Russian ambassador.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the capital, Kyiv, for his first reported trip since the war began nearly six weeks ago to see for himself what he called the genocide and war crimes in the town of Bucha, the site of some of the horrors

7. First private space mission to ISS readies for launch

• The International Space Station (ISS) is set to become busier than usual this week when its crew welcomes aboard four new colleagues from Houston-based startup Axiom Space, the first all-private astronaut team ever flown to the orbiting outpost.
• The launch is being hailed by the company, Nasa and other industry players as a turning point in the latest expansion of commercial space ventures collectively referred to by insiders as the low-Earth orbit economy, or `LEO economy` for short.
• Weather permitting, Axiom`s four-man team was due to lift off on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket furnished and flown by Elon Musk`s commercial space launch venture SpaceX

8. Noted mountaineer Little Karim passes away at 68

• Noted mountaineer Abdul Karim, also known as Little Karim, passed away at the age of 68 on April 4, 2022.
• According to family sources, he had been suffering from liver cancer since 2017, and died at the Combined Military Hospital in Rawalpindi.
• Mr Karim hails from Hushe village of Ghanche district.
• He left behind four sons, as many daughters and a widow to mourn his death.
• Karim was globally known as a high-altitude porter and mountaineer in the 70s and 80s as he served a guide to western tourists on high-altitude expeditions, braving the north`s unforgiving cold all the while carrying as much as 25-kilogramme luggage on his back.

9. Teen star Alcaraz becomes youngest Miami Open men`s champion

• Spanish 14th seed Carlos Alcaraz capped a dream run at the Miami Open with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Norwegian world number eight Casper Ruud in the final on Sunday to secure the biggest win of his young career.
• The 18-year-old Alcaraz earned his first ATP Masters 1000 crown and is the first Spanish man to triumph in Miami after eight previous final appearances by his compatriots, including five by Rafa Nadal.
• `I have no words to describe how I feel,` Alcaraz said after he replaced Novak Djokovic as the youngest champion in the 37-year-old tournament`s history. `But it`s so special to win my Masters 1000 here in Miami

10. Arooj Aftab makes history at Grammys

• Singer and musician Arooj Aftab on Sunday became the first Pakistani to win the prestigious Grammy Award in the Best Global Performance category for her song `Mohabbat`.
• The 37-year-old who has lived in New York for around 15 years, has been steadily gaining global attention for her work that fuses ancient Sufi traditions with inflections of folk, jazz and minimalism.
• After receiving the award, a visibly stunned Arooj said onstage at the 64th Grammy Awards, `I think I`m [going to] faint