Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (jan 13 2023) for CSS

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6. UK review of `golden` visas for millionaires finds links to corruption

• The British government said on January 12, 2023 that a small number of people who were granted socalled `golden visas` for millionaire investors might have obtained their wealth through corruption or organised crime.
• The government last year scrapped the visas, which offered a route to residency for those investing atleast 2 million pounds ($2.43 million), days before the invasion of Ukraine amid government concerns about the inflow of illicit Russian money.
• The government first commissioned the visa`s review in 2018 after the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Britain. After keeping the findings secret for years, the government released details of that investigation to parliament on Thursday.
• `The review of cases identified a small minority of individuals connected to the Tier 1 (Investor) visa route that were potentially at high risk of having obtained wealth through corruption or other illicit financial activity, and/or being engaged in serious and organised crime,` Home Secretary Suella Braverman said in a written statement to parliament

7. Kiev says troops fighting `stubbornly` in Soledar, but admits situation `difficult`

• Ukraine said on January 12, 2023 its forces were fighting to retain control of Soledar in the eastern Donetsk region but cautioned it was coming up against `difficult` resistance from Russian troops.
• The Kremlin has made capturing the industrial region of Donetsk its primary objective after nearly one year of fighting that has seen its forces capitulate on larger goals like seizing the capital.
• `The fiercest and heaviest fightingis continuing today in the area of Soledar,` Deputy Defence Minister Ganna Malyar told reporters. `Despite the difficult situation, Ukrainian soldiers are fighting stubbornly,` she added

8. Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank

• Two Palestinians were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during raids that sparked clashes in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said on January 12, 2023.
• One was killed during an army raid in the Qalandia refugee camp.
• The Israeli military said it had been conducting arrests and confiscating weapons throughout the West Bank. At one location in Qalandia, it said, soldiers came under attack by locals and responded with dispersal methods and live fire

9. Astronomers discover Milky Way galaxy`s most distant stars

• Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way`s outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy almost halfway to a neighbouring galaxy.
• The researchers said these 208 stars inhabit the most remote reaches of the Milky Way`s halo, a spherical stellar cloud dominated by the mysterious invisible substance called dark matter that makes itself known only through its gravitational influence. The furthest of them is 1.08 million light years from Earth. A light year is the distance light travels in a year,5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km).

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10. Australia dump ODI series against Afghanistan over women`s rights

• Australia pulled out of an upcoming cricket series against Afghanistan in the United Arab Emirates on January 12, 2023, citing Taliban moves to further restrict women`s rights.
• The men`s team were due to face their Afghan counterparts in three ODI games in March following a tour to India.
• The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) in Kabul described Australia`s decision as `pathetic`.
• `The decision to withdraw is unfair and unexpected and will have a negative impact on the development and growth of cricket in Afghanistan as well as will affect the love and passion of the Afghan nation for the game,` the ACB said in a statement, which did not mention the shrinking of women`s rights in Afghanistan nor the Taliban`s ban on female sport