Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (jan 14 2023) for CSS

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6. Russia claims taking Soledar, Ukraine denies takeover

• Russia said on January 13, 2023 its forces had wrested control of the war-scarred town of Soledar in east Ukraine, its first claim of victory in months of battlefield setbacks, but Ukraine said there was no takeover.
• Both sides have conceded heavy losses in the battle for the salt mining outpost, with Moscow desperate to sell any win back home after repeated humiliations and Ukraine determined to hold -and win back -ground.
• The Russian defence ministry announced it had `completed the liberation` of Soledar the previous day and that the victory would pave the way for more `successful offensive operations` in the Donetsk region

7. Biden praises Japan for raising defence budget

• US President Joe Biden welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on January 13, 2023 and said the United States remained strongly committed to its alliance with Japan, while hailing a `historic increase` in Japanese defence spending.
• Kishida is in Washington on the last stop in a tour of the G7 industrial powers and has been seeking to bolster long-standing alliances amid rising concern in Japan about mounting regional security threats from China, North Korea and Russia.
• In an Oval Office meeting, Biden called it a `remarkable moment` in the US-Japan alliance and said the two nations had never been closer

8. Iran hopes for restoration of ties with S. Arabia

• Iran`s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on January 13, 2023 expressed hope that diplomatic ties between Tehran and Riyadh can be restored through dialogue between the two regional powers.
• Speaking on a visit to Lebanon, Amir-Abdollahian said he hoped diplomatic missions or embassies in Tehran and Riyadh will reopen within the framework of dialogue that should continue between the two countries.
• He also hailed a potential rapprochement between Iranian ally Syria and Turkiye, after their defence ministers met last month.
• Since April 2021, Iraq has hosted a series of fence-mending meetings between the two countries, but the talks have stalled in recent months, and no meetings have been publicly announced since April 2022

9. Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dies at 54

• Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the `King of Rock `n` Roll`, Elvis Presley, died on January 12, 2023 at the age of 54 after being rushed to a Los Angeles area hospital.
• `It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,` her mother, Priscilla Presley, said in a statement.
• Lisa Marie Presley suffered cardiac arrest in her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, according to entertainment website TMZ. She was then taken to hospital on Thursday

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10. Phillips fireworks see NZ snatch ODI series decider against Pakistan

• Pakistan were ecstatic. They must have thought they were in it after Kane Williamson`s solid innings ended with an anticlimactic run-out.
• The crowd at the National Stadium here on a cold January 13, 2023 night was roaring as it prepared for celebrations.
• But what followed was not only shocking but terrorizing for the host sand their fans.
• Glenn Phillips, who had hardly posed a threat in the first two matches of the three-match series, launched a counterattack, clubbing whichever Pakistan bowler came in his way for raining boundaries and sixes