Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Dec 22 2022) for CSS

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6. First foreign Covid vaccines head to China from Germany

• Berlin has sent its first batch of BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines to China to be administered initially to German expatriates, a German government spokesperson said on December 21, 2022, the first foreign coronavirus vaccine to be delivered to the country.
• No other details were available on the timing and size of the delivery, although the spokesperson said Berlin is pushing for foreigners other than German citizens to be allowed access to the shot if they want it.
• The shipment comes after China agreed to allow German nationals in China to get the shot following a deal during Chancellor Olaf Scholz`s visit in Beijing last month, with the German leader pressing for Beijing to allow the shot to be made freely available to Chinese citizens as well. There are about 20,000 German nationals currently in the country. `I can confirm a shipment of the BioNTech vaccine is on its way to China,` the person told journalists in Berlin

7. Afghan women stopped from entering varsities; Taliban ban stuns students

• Female university students in Afghanistan were turned away from campuses on December 21, 2022 after the Taliban-run administration said women would be suspended from tertiary education.
• The decision to bar women was announced on Tuesday evening in a letter to universities from the higher education ministry, drawing condemnation from foreign governments and the United Nations.
• `We went to university, the Taliban were at the gate and told us you are not allowed to enter the university until further notice` … everyone was crying,` said Shaista, a business studies student at a private university in Kabul.
• A professor at another university in Kabul who declined to be identified said staff turned female students away at the gate as they had no choice but to implement the instruction

8. Nepal court orders release of serial killer Charles Sobhraj

• Nepal`s top court ordered on December 21, 2022 the release and deportation of Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer portrayed in the Netflix series `The Serpent` who was responsible for a string of murders across Asia in the 1970s.
• The Supreme Court ruled Sobhraj, 78, who has been in prison in the Himalayan republic since 2003 for murdering two North American tourists, should be freed on health grounds.
• `Keeping him in the prison continuously is not in line with the prisoner`s human rights,` read a copy of the verdict

9. Rocket lost after liftoff in setback for Europe`s space ambitions

• Europe`s new Vega-C rocket was lost shortly after lift-off from French Guiana overnight with two satellites on board, in the latest blow to European space efforts.
• The launch failure threatens to ground the Vega-C, which would leave Europe without a short-term way to send satellites into orbit after delays to the Ariane 6 rocket and cancelled Russian cooperation over the Ukraine war.
• If it had been successful, it would have been the first commercial launch of the Vega-C since its inaugural flight on July 13

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10. PM forms Sethi-led interim body to run PCB affairs; elections within four months

• In a major top-level change in Pakistan cricket administration, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on December 21, 2022 nominated a 14-member management committee headed by Najam Sethi to run the affairs of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) till the elections to be held within the next four months.
• `The Prime Minister has seen and is pleased to approve the proposal at para 7, of the summary with the stipulation that names of the Management Committee, to be placed before the Federal Cabinet,` said the notification issued by the Prime Minister`s Office on Wednesday.
• The Sethi-headed committee includes Shakil Sheikh (ex-PCB BoG), Gul Zada (ex-PCB BoG) Nauman Butt (ex-PCB BoG), ex-Test cricketers Haroon Rashid, Shahid Khan Afridi and Shafgat Rana, Sana Mir (ex-Pakistan women team`s captain), Aized Syed (ex-PCB director NHPC), Tanvir Ahmed (ex-president Larkana Region), Advocate Supreme Court Mustafa Ramday and Chaudhry Arif Saeed (CEO Service Industries)