October 2022

Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (October 15, 2022) for CSS, PMS

6. Rape used in Ukraine as a Russian `military strategy`, says UN

• Rape and sexual assault attributed to Moscow`s forces in Ukraine are part of a Russian `military strategy` and a `deliberate tactic to dehumanise the victims`, UN envoy Pramila Patten said in an interview.
• `All the indications are there,` the UN special representative on sexual violence said on Thursday, when asked if rape was being used as a weapon of war in Ukraine.
• `When women are held for days and raped, when you start to rape little boys and men, when you see a series of genital mutilations, when you hear women testify about Russian soldiers equipped with Viagra, it`s clearly a military strategy,` she said


7. Israeli forces kill two more Palestinians

• Israeli forces killed two Palestinians during an operation in the city of Jenin on October 14, 2022, Palestinian officials said, as months of clashes in the occupied West Bank continued.
• An Israeli military statement said troops came under heavy fire during the operation, in which an armed operative of the militant Hamas group and two other people were arrested. It said troops returned fire and `hits were identified`.
• The Jenin Brigade, an umbrella group of different armed factions, said one of its members had been killed.
• Atta Abu Rumeileh, a leader for the Fatah group in Jenin, told Reuters that the other man killed was a health official and Fatah member who participated in the fighting


8. Hamas signs reconciliation deal with Fatah in Algiers

• Palestinian factions signed a reconciliation deal in Algiers, vowing to hold elections by next October in their latest attempt to end a rift that has now lasted more than 15 years.
• The deal was signed by a leading figure from the Fatah party of President Mahmud Abbas and by the chief of Islamist movement Hamas, which rules Gaza.
• The two rival groups have been at odds for more than a decade.
• While Fatah dominates the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority (PA), which is based in the West Bank, Hamas is in control in the Gaza Strip


9. Five killed in yet another mass shooting in US

• The gunman believed to have killed five people in North Carolina in America`s latest mass shooting is a 15-year-old boy, in critical condition after being shot by police, officials said on October 14, 2022.
• Two more people were wounded in the Thursday night shooting, the motive of which remains under investigation, Raleigh police chief Estella Patterson told a news conference in the state capital.
• She said the fatalities included a 29-year-old off-duty police officer who was on his way to work. The four other victims were a 16-year-old boy and three women aged 35, 49 and 52.
• A 59-year-old woman also remained hospitalised in critical condition


10. Nawaz stars again as Pakistan send World Cup warning with tri-series win

• All-rounder Mohammad Nawaz struck an unbeaten 38 from 22 balls to lift Pakistan to a five-wicket victory over New Zealand on October 14, 2022 to win the tri-series Twenty20 final in Christchurch with three balls to spare.
• It was a good sign for Pakistan going into the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup in Australia, with an opener against arch-rivals India on October 23.
• After the hosts finished on 163-7 at Hagley Oval, spinner Michael Bracewell checked Pakistan`s early momentum in the tourists` reply, before Nawaz provided the final impetus for the win

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