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

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6. `Personal animus` may have led to New Mexico killings

• A false sense of honour seems to have caused a 51-year-old man to kill four men in the US state of New Mexico because he believed they facilitated his daughter`s marriage against his will.
• The suspect, Mohammed Syed, killed three men in the last two weeks and one in November in Albuquerque, a city in New Mexico.
• Three of them were from the Shia community, like the man his daughter married, and one was a Sunni

7. TV journalist faces jail for speaking out against Putin

• Russian investigators on August 10, 2022 launched a criminal probe against Marina Ovsyannikova, who denounced President Vladimir Putin`s attack on Ukraine on live TV, and detained the journalist, her lawyer said.
• In mid-July, Ovsyannikova staged a one-woman protest near the Kremlin, holding a poster that read `Putin is a murderer, his soldiers are fascists.
• Three `blood-soaked` toy dolls were laid on the ground in front of her. She now f aces up to 10 years in prison, if convicted

8. Rainwater unsafe to drink due to chemicals: study

• Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to levels of toxic chemicals known as PFAS that exceed the latest guidelines, according to a new study by Stockholm University scientists.
• Commonly known as `forever chemicals` because they disintegrate extremely slowly, PFAS (perand polyfluoroalkyl substances) were initially found in packaging, shampoo or makeup but have spread to our entire environment, including water and air.
• `There is nowhere on Earth where the rain would be safe to drink, according to the measurements that we have taken,` Ian Cousins, a professor at the university and the lead author of the study published in Environmental Science and Technology, said.

9. G7 wants Russia to return N-plant control to Kyiv

• As Ukraine on August 10, 2022 accused Russia of exploiting its position in a nuclear power plant it had seized to target a nearby town in rocket attacks that killed at least 13 people, foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) nations called on Russia to immediately hand back full control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to Ukraine.
• China has meanwhile called the United States the `main instigator` of the Ukraine crisis.
• The town Marhanets that Ukraine claims was targeted is the one that Russia has alleged Ukrainian forces have used in the past to shell the Russian forces, hole dupat the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that they took over in March

10. Despite truce, Israeli forces kill commander, three other Palestinians

• Despite the truce, Israeli security forces on Wednesday killed a Palestinian commander and another fighter in a gunbattle in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the military said, triggering further clashes in which Palestinians said two teens were killed in separate incidents.
• Israeli forces surrounded the house of Ibrahim al Nabulsi, a senior com-mander of Fatah`s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militant group long on Israel`s wanted list.
• The shootout, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, was the deadliest incident in the West Bank since Israel and the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad ended three days of fighting in Gaza, the worst in more than a year