Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 11, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. W. Sahara`s Polisario breaks ties with Madrid

• The Polisario independence movement on April 11, 2022 announced a `break` in contacts with the Spanish government in protest at its U-turn on the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
• `The Polisario Front has decided to break contacts with the current Spanish government` over its `instrumentalisation of the Western Sahara question in shameful bargaining with the (Moroccan) occupier`, the movement wrote in a statement. It said the break will last until Madrid `conforms with decisions of international legality, which recognises the Sahrawi people`s right to self-determination, and with respect for the borders of their country, as internationally recognised`

7. Tunisians take to streets against President Saied`s `failed dictatorship`

• Tunisians on April 11, 2022 protested against President Kais Saied, accusing him of imposing one-man rule in the North African country after he dissolved parliament last month.
• A political crisis in the country intensified last month when more than half of the members of parliament held an online session to revoke Saied`s decrees.
• `We are facing a failed dictatorship that is leading the country to an economic disaster.. We will continue to protest in the streets until a coup is forced to reverse its decisions,` Chaima Issa, an activist, said.

8. Australian prime minister calls elections for May 21

• Australia`s Prime Minister Scott Morrison called federal elections for May 21 on Sunday, launching a come from-behind battle to stay in power after three years rocked by floods, bushfires and the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Morrison`s conservative government is struggling to woo Australia`s 17 million voters, lagging behind the opposition Labor Party in a string of opinion polls despite presiding over a rebounding economy with a 13-year-low jobless rate of four percent.
• `It`s a choice between a strong future and an uncertain one. It`s a choice between a government you know and a Labor opposition that you don`t, Morrison told a news conference in Canberra

9. Macron leads in first round, to fight runoff against Le Pen on 24th

• French leader Emmanuel Macron and his strongest challenger Marine Le Pen qualified on April 11, 2022 for a presidential election runoff on April 24, pitting a pro-European economic liberal against a far-right nationalist.
• With projections putting Macron in first place ahead of Le Pen after Sunday`s first round voting, other major candidates admitted defeat.
• Except for another far-right candidate, Eric Zemmour, they all urged voters to back the incumbent in the runoff to block the far-right

10. Israeli forces `go on offensive`, launch raids in West Bank

• Israeli forces carried out fresh raids on April 10, 2022 in the nash point West Bank district of Jenin, a bastion of Palestinian militant groups and the home of gunmen who launched two recent deadly attacks.
• Elsewhere in the West Bank, near the southern city of Bethlehem, Israeli troops on Sunday shot dead a Palestinian woman who had approached them and failed to stop after they had fired warning shots, the military said.
• The woman a widowed mother of six in her 40s named by the Palestinian news agency Wafa as Ghada Ibrahim Sabatien died after suffering massive blood loss from a torn artery, the Palestinian health ministry said.