Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 28, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. G7 wants Opec to play role in easing energy supplies

• Ministers from the Group of Seven countries on Friday called on Opec to act responsibly to ease a global energy crunch brought on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as they announced a breakthrough commitment to phase out coal-fuelled power.
• The call, made at the end of three-day talks in Berlin focused on climate change, underscored that the world`s major economies were grappling with how to contain inflation and higher energy prices while sticking to environmental goals.
• OPEC and its allies, a group known as Opec+, has so far rebuffed Western calls for a faster increase in oil production to lower surging prices

7. UNSC split spells end of an era for US-led sanctions on North Korea

• A decision by China and Russia to veto new United Nations sanctions on North Korea pushed by the United States shattered any veneer of global cooperation, straining efforts to pressure Pyongyang as it prepares to conduct a new nuclear test.
• The two countries on Thursday vetoed a US-led push to impose more UN sanctions on North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches, publicly splitting the UN Security Council for the first time since it started punishing Pyongyangin2006.
• US officials slammed it as a `sharp departure from the Council`s track record of collective action on this issue`

8. Russian forces close in on key Ukraine city in east

• Russian troops were moving in on the strategic city of Severodonetsk on May 27, 2022 in a relentless offensive to control Ukraine`s eastern Donbas region, bombing residential areas and claiming the capture of a key town.
• At least nine people were killed a day earlier in shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine`s second-largest city, raising fears that Russia had not lost interest in the northeastern hub even after Ukraine managed to take back control.
• Around 10 people were also killed in Russian strikes on a military facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, well away f rom the frontline of the of fensive, the regional head of the national guard said.

9. G7 nations vow to stop fossil-fuel financing abroad by end of year

• Japan for the first time has joined fellow members of the Group of Seven industrialised nations in pledging to end public financing for fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of the year to help combat global warming.
• `We commit to end new direct public support for the international unabated fossil fuel energy sector by the end of 2022,` G7 energy and climate ministers said in a joint statement following talks in Berlin on Friday.
• The term `unabated` refers to projects that do not employ techniques to offset some of the pollution caused by carbon dioxide emissions.

10. Mountaineering community mourns demise of `humble master`

• Legendary mountaineer Ali Raza Sadpara passed away on May 27, 2022 morning at a hospital where he was under treatment for the critical injuries he had sustained over 10 days ago. He was 56.
• His funeral prayers were offered in the Olding village of the city here and attended by a large number of people from all walks of life. He was buried in his native graveyard in Skardu. Fellow climbers, politicians, the army chief and the civil society expressed condolences with his family and called Sadoara`s passine `ag reat loss for Pakistan`.
• On May 17, the veteran mountaineer had suffered serious injuries when he slipped off a cliff and fell into a ditch