Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 26, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. PAF trainer aircraft crashes near Mianwali

• A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) trainer aircraft crashed near Mianwali during a routine training mission on May 25, 2022.
• The pilot ejected safely and no loss of life or property was reported on the ground, a PAF news release said.
• A board of inquiry has been ordered by the Air Headquarters to determine the cause of the incident, it said

7. Pakistan, France agree to strengthen trade ties

• Pakistan and France agreed on May 25, 2022 to strengthen and diversify bilateral trade and economic ties in the coming years.
• The understanding was reached during the meeting of Pakistan Commerce Minister Naveed Qamar with France`s Minister for Foreign Trade and Attractiveness, Franck Riester. Pakistan Charge d`Affaires Amjad Aziz Qazi was also present during the meeting.
• In the wake of the cartoon incident in France, Pakistan has yet to post its regular ambassador to the European country. The proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) took to the streets and blocked many parts of the country to pressure the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government to expel the French ambassador from Pakistan

8. US negotiator terms Iran deal `tenuous`, warns of Plan B

• The US point man on Iran warned on May 25, 2022 of uncertain prospects for reviving a nuclear deal and said Tehran would face a new pressure campaign if it clung to its demands.
• Rob Malley, who has led more than a year of indirect talks with Iran in Vienna, nonetheless told Congress that President Joe Biden`s administration still supported the 2015 nuclear accord and was ready to lift sanctions if it secures an agreement with Tehran.
• `We do not have a deal with Iran and prospects for reaching one are, at best, tenuous,` Malley was to tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to prepared testimony.

9. Israel, Turkey looking to expand economic partnership

• Turkish and Israeli foreign ministers said on May 25, 2022 their countries were hoping to expand economic ties as they seek an end to more than a decade of strained relations.
• Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is on the second-day of a two-day trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories, the first such visit by a senior Turkish official in 15 years.
• `The goalis to form and expand economic and civil cooperation between our countries,` Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid said in a statement alongside Cavusoglu in Jerusalem, `and to leverage our two countries` comparative advantages regionally and globally, even during the pandemic, and even in times of political tension

10. Biden urges gun control after shooter kills 19 children at Texas school

• `When in God`s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?` US President Joe Biden asked his nation on Wednesday, hours after a teenage gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers in an elementary school in Texas.
• The powerful gun lobby in America has so far prevented all administrations from making strict gun control laws, although mass shootings at American schools continue to happen with regular intervals.
• The 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos entered the Robb Elementary School in a small Texas town of Uvalde at 11:32am on Tuesday, barricaded himself inside a classroom and started shooting