June 2022

Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (June 21, 2022) for CSS, PMS

6. Russia threatens to hit back as Lithuania bans rail transit to Kaliningrad

• Russia on June 20, 2022 demanded the immediate lifting of Lithuania`s `openly hostile` restrictions on the rail transit of EU-sanctioned goods to Moscow`s exclave of Kaliningrad that borders Lithuania and Poland.
• Moscow accused the Baltic nation of banning the rail transit of goods subject to sanctions imposed by the European Union over Russia`s military campaign in Ukraine.
• Russia`s foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that it had summoned Lithuania`s charge d`affaires in Moscow to protest the `provocative` and `openly hostile` measures


7. Ex-guerilla Petro elected Colombia`s first leftist president

• Ex-guerilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday, after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election.
• With all votes counted, Petro the 62-year-old former mayor of Bogota won with 50.4 percent to Hernandez`s 47.3 percent.
• `As of today, Colombia is changing, a real change that guides us to one of our aims: the politics of love… of understanding and dialogue,` said Petro.
• Hernandez, 77, accepted the result, in which he came up short by 700,000 votes, in a Facebook live broadcast


8. OIC calls for outlawing `wilful religious provocations`

• The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) urged the international community on June 20, 2022 to outlaw all willful provocations and incitement to hate and violence.
• In a statement read at a high-level UN meeting on countering hate speech, the OIC also expressed grave concern on the `denigration of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)` by officials of India`s ruling Bhartiya Janta Party. Pakistan`s UN Ambassador Munir Akram read the statement on OIC`s behalf. The OIC demanded that all `willful provocations and incitement to hate and violence must be universally outlawed.
• Ambassador Akram reminded the international community that the OIC `remains concerned about willful provocations and defamation of Islamic holy personalities and religious symbols


9. Israel says it`s building regional air defence alliance under US

• Israel is building a US sponsored regional air defence alliance, the Israeli defence minister said on June 20, 2022, adding that the apparatus has already foiled attempted Iranian attacks and could be boosted by President Joe Biden`s visit next month.
• Drawing closer in recent years to US aligned Arab states which share its Iran concerns, Israel has offered them defence cooperation. They have been publicly reticent on the idea.
• Washington hopes more cooperation, especially on security, would help further integrate Israel in the region and isolate Iran.
• It may also preface more normalisation deals with Israel, including by heavyweight Saudi Arabia, following the forging of relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in 2020


10. Popular comedian Masood Khawaja passes away

• Masood Khawaja, actor and comedian who achieved fame in the late 1980s from Pakistan Television (PTV) and theatre in Rawalpindi, passed away at the age of 55 on June 20, 2022.
• He is survived by wife, a son and two daughters.
• Masood Khawaia aka Goaa was suffer in a from a kidney disease and had been on dialysis for six months.
• Doctors had recommended him for a kidney transplant

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