Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Dec 21 2022) for CSS

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6. Taliban ban university education for girls

• The Taliban authorities on December 20, 2022 ordered a nationwide ban on university education for females, as the hardline Islamists continue to crush Afghan women`s right to education and freedom.
• Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women`s lives, ignoring international outrage.
• `You all are informed to immediately implement the mentioned order of suspending education of females until further notice,` said a letter issued to all government and private universities, signed by the Minister for Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem

7. Fiji`s strongman on way out after 16 years

• Fiji will have a new leader for the first time in 16 years after a national election resulted in three parties joining up to form a government in the Pacific island nation, dislodging Frank Bainimarama`s Fiji First party.
• The Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA), a power-broker holding three seats in the hung parliament, announced on December 20, 2022 it had decided to form a coalition with Sitiveni Rabuka`s People`s Alliance and the National Federation Party.
• The decision came after two days of deliberations and rival presentations by former Prime Minister Bainimarama and the People`s Alliance party, after a national election last week resulted in a deadlock. At a livestreamed news conference, Rabuka thanked the people of Fiji. `They have voted for change and we have given them that,` he said

8. Gambian body blames Indian firm for 70 child deaths

• A parliamentary committee in Gambia said on December 20, 2022 that India-based drug maker Maiden Pharmaceuticals was responsible for the deaths of at least 70 children from acute kidney injury and called on the government to pursue legal action.
• The World Health Organisation said in October four medicinal syrups made by Maiden and imported by a local wholesaler were likely linked to the deaths, which have shocked the West African country since July.
• The drugs were pulled from the shelves and Maiden`s production licence in India was suspended

9. Countries vow to support Iraq`s `stability` at Mideast summit

• Leaders from the Middle East and beyond pledged on December 20, 2022 to support Iraq`s `stability` and called for Baghdad to distance itself from foreign influence, at a summit aimed at helping resolve regional crises.
• Iraq has been caught for years in a delicate balancing act between its two main allies, the United States and Iran, and Baghdad only recently arrived at a fragile compromise government after a year of political stalemate.
• The `Baghdad II` meeting in Jordan, which also included officials from France and the European Union, followed an August 2021 summit in Iraq`s capital organised at the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron

10. London`s Arabic bookshop to shut after 45 years

• Salwa Gaspard gazes fondly at the hundreds of Arabic-language books displayed on dark wooden shelves, putting some back in place while exchanging a few words with customers.
• In just a few days` time, her London bookshop, known to literary enthusiasts throughout the Middle East, will close for good.
• Al Saqi Books is another victim of the pandemic, and the economic upheaval in the UK and Lebanon, from where Gaspard and her husband Andre`s publishing house prints and ships most of its books