Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 01, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. Ukraine fetes Russian pullback from strategic Snake Island outpost

• Russia on Thursday withdrew from Snake Island, a craggy speck of land in the Black Sea, handing Ukraine a symbolically-potent political victory and depriving Moscow of a strategic out post for its air defences and electronic warfare systems.
• The island`s capture by Russian forces on the first day of their invasion entered Ukrainian folklore.
• Just over four months later, Kyiv`s announcement that it had driven Russia from the outcrop with artil1ery and missile strikes lifted the spirit of Ukrainians worn down by Russia`s grinding eastern advance

7. From pariah to president: Marcos Jr takes over Philippines` top job

• Ferdinand Marcos Jr, whose dictator father and namesake plundered and brutalised the Philippines, has reached the end of a decades-long campaign to rehabilitate the family brand: the presidency.
• Marcos Jr, known by his nickname `Bongbong`, succeeded Rodrigo Duterte in the top job on Thursday after his landslide victory in last month`s elections.
• His win followed relentless whitewashing of the family`s past and leveraging of alliances with rival families that control large swathes of the country.
• In the 36 years since a popular uprising toppled the patriarch and chased the family into US exile, the Marcoses have been rebuilding their political profiles.

8. Israeli parliament dissolves, set for fifth poll in 4 years

• Israeli lawmakers dissolved parliament on June 30, 2022, forcing the country`s fifth election in less than four years, with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid set to take over as caretaker prime minister at midnight.
• After the unanimous 92-0 vote, the centrist Lapid embraced outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose year in charge of an unwieldy, eight-party coalition was ultimately undone by its ideological divisions.
• Lapid, whose Hungarian-born father survived the Holocaust, went immediately from parliament to Jerusalem`s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre

9. FIFA lifts Pakistan`s suspension, NC mandate extended

• It took nearly 15 months, but Pakistan has finally returned to the international football fold.
• FIFA announced on Thursday that the Pakistan Football Federation`s (PFF) suspension was being lifted after the global football body received confirmation that its appointed Normalisation Committee for the PFF had `regained full control of the PFF`s premises and was in a position to manage its finances.
• While other modalities will take time to complete, this immediate relief for Pakistan football will mean that the national team can now take part in Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and FIFA competitions

10. PCB announces separate Test and limited overs contracts list

• Pakistan has given separate contracts to players in the Test and limited-overs squads in a bid to build long-term depth, the chief selector said Thursday.
• Previously, top players were offered one contract and could be called on to play any version of the game, but specialisation has made this out of fashion for many cricketing nations.
• `These contracts are part of our vision and strategy to identify, groom and develop specialists for the traditional and purist format of the game,` chief selector Mohammad Wasim said at a press conference.
• Babar Azam, captain of the Test, ODI and Twenty20 teams, is one of just hve players offered both red and white ball contracts.
• The others are pacers Hasan Ali and Shaheen Shah Afridi, batter Imam-ul-Haq and wicket-keeper Mohammad Rizwan