April 2022

Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 30, 2022) for CSS, PMS

6. Kabul remains in mourning as 10 die in mosque bombing

• A bomb blast in the Afghan capital ripped through a Sunni mosque and killed at least 10 worshippers on April 29, 2022, interior ministry officials said, the latest in a wave of attacks that have rocked the country during the fasting month of Ramazan.
• However, Reuters quoted the head of the mosque as saying that the powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers. Sayed Fazil Agha said someone they believed was a suicide bomber joined them in the ceremony and detonated explosives.
• `Black smoke rose and spread everywhere, dead bodies were everywhere, he told Reuters, adding that his nephews were among the dead. `I myself survived, but lost my beloved ones.
• The blast hit the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in the west of the capital in the early afternoon, said Besmullah Habib, deputy spokesman for the interior ministry, who said the official confirmed death toll was 10


7. Tensions rise as West puts its weight decisively behind Ukraine

• Less cautious about its military support and more explicit in its war aims, the West shifted gears in its support for Ukraine this week despite the risk of a direct conflict with Russia.
• `We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can`t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,` US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Monday.
• The remark underlined Washington`s widening objectives in the conflict beyond simply enabling Ukraine to defend its territory from Russian attack


8. Riyadh, Ankara reset relations after Khashoggi killing

• Saudi Arabia`s crown prince and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have vowed to reset relations, to end a conflict between the two regional heavyweights since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
• Erdogan in his first visit since the 2018 killing of Khashoggi in the kingdom`s Istanbul consulate, which drove a wedge between the two countries met the kingdom`s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to `develop` relations.
• Saudi state news agency SPA on Thursday published images of the Turkish leader embracing Prince Mohammed, who US intelligence officials determined approved the plot against Khashoggi something Riyadh denies


9. UAE to send astronaut to ISS

• The United Arab Emirates announced on April 29, 2022 it will send an astronaut on a six-month mission to space, as it seeks to become a major player in the industry.
• The wealthy Gulf country signed `a new agreement to send the first Arab astronaut on a long 180-day mission to the International Space Station`, tweeted UAE`s vice president, Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum


10. Pakistan facing long ban after six weightlifters suspended for doping

• It`s taken barely nine months for the bubble to burst.
• Talha Talib`s sensational performance at last year`s Tokyo Olympics, where he finished fifth in the 67kg class, had provided hopes of a golden future for Pakistan`s weightlifters.
• But now a doping scandal threatens Pakistan`s international weightlifting future.
• The Pakistan Weightlifting Federation faces a lengthy ban from the International Weightlifting Federation after six of its weightlifters, including Talha, were provisionally suspended by the International Testing Agency over doping offences

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