August 2022

Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (August 04, 2022) for CSS, PMS

6. Protest leader Stalin arrested in Sri Lanka

• A top Sri Lankan trade union leader in the forefront of protests which led to the ousting of Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the presidency was arrested on August 3, 2022, witnesses and officials said.
• Joseph Stalin, the secretary of the Sri Lanka Teachers` Union, becomes the senior most activist to be arrested in a crackdown against protesters forced Rajapaksa to flee last month.
• `He is being arrested for holding a demonstration in May in violation of a court order,` police told reporters at Stalin`s union office in Colombo as he was being detained


7. First grain shipment from Ukraine sails through Istanbul

• The first shipment of grain from Ukraine since the Kremlin`s invasion five months ago sailed through Istanbul on August 3, 2022 under a landmark deal designed to help alleviate a global food crisis sparked by the war.
• The Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni`s voyage from the Black Sea port of Odessa to Lebanon is being watched closely for signs of how the first agreement signed by Moscow and Kyiv since Russia invaded its pro-Western neighbour holds.
• A deal brokered by Turkey and the Unite d Nations last month lifted a Russian naval blockade of Ukraine`s Black Sea cities and set terms for millions of tonnes of wheat and other grain to start flowing from filled silos and ports


8. US state votes to maintain abortion rights in test case

• Abortion rights advocates celebrated on Tuesday as the Midwestern US state of Kansas voted to maintain the right to the procedure, the first major poll on the flashpoint issue since the Supreme Court overturned nationwide access in June.
• Kansans rejected an amendment that would have scrapped language in the state constitution guaranteeing the right to the procedure and could have paved the way for stricter regulations or a ban.
• The vote was widely seen as a test case for abortion rights nationwide, as Republican-dominated legislatures rush to impose strict bans on the procedure following the Supreme Court`s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Pro-abortion rights campaigners and supporters celebrated the win for their side of the hotly contested US debate. `Pm just beside myself,` campaign volunteer Anne Melia said


9. Taliban tight-lipped over US strike that killed Zawahiri

• Top leaders of Afghanistan`s Taliban were holding discussions on Wednesday about how to respond to a US drone strike in Kabul that the United States said killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman alZawahiri, three sources in the group said.
• The United States killed Zawahiri with a missile fired from a drone while he stood on a balcony at his Kabul hideout on Sunday, US officials said, the biggest blow to the Taliban since Osama bin Laden was shot dead more than a decade ago in Pakistan.
• The Taliban have not confirmed Zawahiri`s death


10. Nooh, Hussain sparkle as Pakistan`s CWG medal wait ends

• After Shah Hussain Shah ended Pakistan`s medal wait, Nooh Dastagir Butt smashed the Commonwealth Games record.
• On the sixth day of competition in Birmingham, the duo`s exploits ensured Pakistan got its first gold and bronze medals.
• It was Nooh`s breathtaking lift that delivered the gold, the 23-year-old improving on his bronze at the previous edition of the Games in Australia`s Gold Coast four years ago

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