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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 08 2023) for CSS

January 8, 2023
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6. McCarthy takes oath after 14 defeats, intense bargaining

• Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was sworn in on January 7, 2023 as speaker of the House of Representatives in the 118th Congress.
• McCarthy was elected early January 7, 2023 morning after a series of deadlocks and intense bargaining set a new record of 15 rounds of voting in four days. The bargaining gave the 20-member conservative Freedom Caucus the powers to unseat the speaker and paralyse governance if they wished to do so.
• This was the longest speaker contest in 164 years. And it was already past midnight when the Republican candidate finally won the contest with 216 votes against 212 of his Democratic rival Hakeem Jeffries

7. China`s `great migration` starts under shadow of Covid

• China on January 7, 2023 marked the first day of `chun yun`, the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world`s largest annual migration of people, bracing for a huge increase in travellers and the spread of Covid19 infections.
• This Lunar New Year public holiday, which officially runs from Jan 21, will be the first since 2020 without domestic travel restrictions.
• Over the last month China has seen the dramatic dismantling of its `zero Covid` regime following historic protests against a policy that included frequent testing, restricted movement, mass lockdowns and heavy damage to the world`s No.2 economy.
• Investors are hoping that the reopening will eventually reinvigorate a $17-trillion economy suffering its lowest growth in nearly half a century

8. Little let-up in war as Russia, Ukraine mark Orthodox Christmas

• Ukrainians and Russians on January 7, 2023 marked Orthodox Christmas under the shadow of war, as fighting persisted despite Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to pause attacks.
• Despite Putin`s ceasefire order war-scarred cities in eastern Ukraine saw no significant let-up in the fighting as AFP journalists in the town of Chasiv Yar south of the frontline city of Bakhmut heard heavy artillery fire throughout much of Saturday morning.
• The Russian defence ministry insisted on Saturday the army was observing the ceasefire but also said that it had repelled the Kyiv forces` attacks in eastern Ukraine and killed dozens of soldiers on Friday.
• Ukrainian authorities said three people were killed on Friday

9. Two Iranians executed for killing security official

• Iran on January 7, 2023 executed two men for killing a paramilitary force member during unprecedented protests sparked by the death in custody of a young woman.
• The latest hangings double the number of executions to four over the nationwide protests, which escalated since mid-September into calls for an end to Iran`s regime. Two men were put to death in December, sparking global outrage and new Western sanctions against Iran.
• Judicial news agency Mizan Online reported `Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, the main perpetrators of the crime that led to the martyrdom of Ruhollah Ajamian, were hanged this morning

10. Once in 50,000-year comet may be visible to the naked eye

• A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.
• The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it passing Jupiter in March last year.
• After travelling from the icy reaches of our Solar System it will come closest to the Sun on Jan12 and pass nearest to Earth on Feb 1. It will be easy to spot with a good pair of binoculars and likely even with the naked eye, provided the sky is not too illuminated by city lights or the Moon

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