Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (July 04, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. 17 Pakistani women successfully complete energy sector programme

• As many as 17 Pakistani female university students successfully completed the four week United States Pakistan Women`s Council (USPWC) Future of Women in Energy Scholar`s pilot programme.
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Reed Aeschliman presided over a graduation ceremony for the participants at the US Embassy in Islamabad. According to a statement released on Sunday, the inaugural four-week programme was designed to encourage women to consider careers in the energy sector. All of the participants were female Pakistani students pursuing their undergraduate degrees in the sciences.
• The programme is a product of the US`s commitment towards promoting women`s educational and economic participation in Pakistan`s energy sector, it added

7. Sweden refuses to deny deportations to Turkey part of Nato deal

• Sweden`s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson refused on July 3, 2022 to deny Turkey`s claim that it had promised to deport individuals sought by Ankara as part of Stockholm`s efforts to join Nato.
• Despite questioning by journalists and concerns among Kurdish and Turkish refugees in Sweden, Andersson would not say whether such a commitment had been given to Ankara for it to lift objections to Sweden`s membership.
• `I`ve been a minister for eight years and I never talked about what is said in the negotiation room,` she said.
• `(That) actually puts me in a bit of a difficult situation right now,` she added

8. North Korea slams US plan for `Asian Nato`

• North Korea criticised the United States, South Korea and Japan`s recent agreement on strengthening military cooperation to be a means to materialise a US plan for a military alliance like Nato in the region.
• North Korea`s foreign ministry spokesperson said as much to a question put by KCNA, the state news agency reported on Sunday. `The reality clearly shows that the real purpose of the US spreading the rumour about `threat from North Korea`is to provide an excuse for attaining military supremacy over the Asia-Pacific region,` said the spokesperson.
• `The prevailing situation more urgently calls for building up the country`s defences to actively cope with the rapid aggravation of the security environment,` the spokesperson added

9. Indian govt bars Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri journalist from leaving country

• A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from Indian-occupied Kashmir, Sana Irshad Mattoo, was barred by immigration officials at the New Delhi airport from travelling to France on Saturday `without any reasons`, The Indian Express reported.
• In a tweet, the 28-year-old journalist said she was scheduled to travel from New Delhi to Paris for a book launch and photography exhibition as one of 10 award winners of the Serendipity Arles Grant 2020 but was stopped at the airport`s immigration desk despite procuring a French visa.
• `I was not given any reason but told I would not be able to travel internationally,` she tweeted, according to a Dawn.com report.

10. Russia claims key Ukraine city, kills six in Sloviansk

• Russia claimed on July 3, 2022 to have captured the strategic Ukrainian city of Lysychansk and the entire frontline Lugansk region as a mayor said six people were killed by Russian shelling to the west.
• The gains claimed by Russia would mark a decisive breakthrough for Moscow`s forces seeking control of eastern Ukraine, more than four months into their invasion and after turning their focus away from the capital Kyiv.
• The mayor of Sloviansk, 75 kilometres west of Lysychansk, reported the heaviest Russian shelling `for a long time`, saying that a child was among six people killed, with another 15 people wounded and 15 fires sparked