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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (August 31, 2022) for CSS, PMS

August 31, 2022
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6. China, Taiwan trade barbs over drone sorties into island

• Taipei and Beijing have traded barbs over a recent string of drone sorties from the Chinese mainland to an outlying Taiwanese island, as Taiwan`s president on August 30, 2022vowed `strong countermeasures` against such incursions.
• Photos and video taken by Chinese drones of the Kinmen islands have been circulating on both Taiwanese and Chinese social media, with one video showing Taiwanese soldiers hurling rocks at one to drive it off.
• While visiting air force facilities in offshore Penghu islands, President Tsai Ingwen said China had used `greyzone` tactics such as drone intrusion to continue its `military intimidation` against Taiwan

7. Israel jails former Gaza chief of US-based aid agency for 12 years

• An Israeli court on August 30, 2022 sentenced the former Gaza head of a major US-based aid agency to 12 years in prison for `funneling millions of dollars to the Hamas group`.
• The Beersheba district court in southern Israel issued a sentence of `12 years` prison time, less the detention` already served for World Vision`s Mohammed al Halabi.
• The court had ruled in June that Halabi was guilty of siphoning of f millions of dollars and tonnes of steel to Hamas, which controls the Palestinian enclave.
• Halabi, who was arrested in June 2016 and indicted in August that year, has denied any irregularities throughout his past six years in detention.

8. Iran seized, then released US Navy drone vessel: Pentagon

• An Iranian ship seized an American military unmanned research vessel in the Gulf but released it after a US Navy patrol boat and helicopter were deployed to the location, the Pentagon said on August 30, 2022.
• The US Central Command`s 5th Fleet said a support ship from Iran`s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, the Shahid Baziar, was spotted towing the seven-meter (23-foot) Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel (USV)late on Monday.
• The US naval drone, equipped with an array of sensors, radars and cameras, was in international waters collecting navigation and other unspecified data, the 5th Fleet said in a statement

9. Che Guevara`s son dies in Venezuela

• Camilo Guevara March, the eldest son of communist revolutionary icon Ernesto `Che` Guevara, died in Caracas aged 60, Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel said on August 30, 2022.
• According to Prensa Latina, Guevara March was visiting Venezuela when he died on Monday due to a blood clot that led to a heart attack.
• `It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to Camilo, son of Che and promoter of his ideas,` said Diaz-Canel on Twitter.
• He was the eldest of four children that Argentine Guevara had with Cuban Aleida March

10. Najibullah, spinners power Afghanistan to Asia Cup Super 4

• Najibullah Zadran tore into the opposition attack with six sixes to lead Afghanistan into the Asia Cup Super 4 stage with a crushing seven-wicket win over Bangladesh here at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on August 30, 2022.
• Chasing a modest-looking 128 for victory, Afghanistan were in trouble at 62-3 when Najibullah (43) joined Ibrahim Zadran (42) for an unbeaten stand of 69 as they won by nine balls to spare.
• Frontline spinners Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan took three wickets each to set up victory as Afghanistan restricted the opposition to 127-7 after Bangladesh elected to bat first

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