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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (January 25, 2022) for CSS, PMS

January 25, 2022
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6. Taliban hail Oslo meet as success `in itself`

• On their first visit to Europe since returning to power, the Taliban held landmark talks with Western diplomats in Oslo on January 24, 2022 over the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, a meeting the Islamist regime`s delegation called an `achievement in itself`.
• The international community has however insisted the Taliban must respect human rights before aid can be resumed to Afghanistan, where hunger threatens more than half population.
• Having accepted a controversial invitation from Norway, the Taliban were holding talks on Monday with representatives of the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, the European Union and Norway

7. Two US aircraft carriers enter S. China Sea; Taiwan complains of `incursion`

• Two US aircraft carrier groups have entered the disputed South China Sea for training, the Department of Defence said on January 24, 2022 as Taiwan complained of a new Chinese air force incursion at the top of the waterway including a fearsome new electronic warfare jet.
• The South China Sea and self-governing Taiwan are two of China`s most sensitive territorial issues and both are frequent areas of tension between the United States and China.
• US Navy ships routinely sail close to Chinese-occupied islands in the South China Sea to challenge Chinese sovereignty claims, as well as through the Taiwan Strait, to Beijing`s anger

8. Yemeni rebels fire missiles at UAE, Saudi Arabia as tensions soar

• Yemen rebels fired missiles at the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, with coalition forces hitting back by blowing up the insurgents` launchpad as a sharp escalation of hostilities entered a second week on January 24, 2022.
• Witnesses saw bright flashes arcing over the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi in the early hours of Monday as two ballistic missiles were intercepted, scattering debris.
• Nobody was hurt in the attack, which came a week after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels killed three people in a drone and missile assault on the city, triggering a volley of deadly air strikes on Yemen

9. Facebook claims making massive supercomputer

• Facebook`s parent company Meta said on January 24, 2022 it was launching one of the world`s most powerful supercomputers to boost its capacity to process data, despite persistent disputes over privacy and disinformation.
• The US tech giant said the array of machines could process images and video up to 20 times faster than their current systems.
• The supercomputer, built from thousands of processors, will be used to `seamlessly analyse text, images, and video together; develop new augmented reality tools; and much more`, the firm said in a blog post written by two of its artificial intelligence (AI) researchers

10. Afridi, Babar bring more glory to Pakistan

• Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Afridi was named men`s Cricketer of the Year on January 24, 2022, combining with team-mates Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan to help the country dominate the annual awards announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
• England captain Joe Root won the Test Player of the Year honours to prevent a sweep of the men`s awards by Pakistan.
• Captain Babar was adjudged One-day Cricketer of the Year while his deputy Rizwan had grabbed the T20 award the previous day.
• A fourth Pakistani cricketer, Fatima Sana, had won the Emerging Women`s Cricketer of the year award on Sunday.

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