September 2022

Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 03, 2022) for CSS, PMS

6. UN inspectors to stay at Ukraine N-plant indefinitely to `ensure safety`

• United Nations inspectors spent a second day on September 2, 2022 at a Russian-held nuclear plant and at least two will remain on a permanent basis to ensure safety after the International Atomic Energy Agency said the site had been `violated` by the fighting in Ukraine.
• A 14-strong IAEA team visited the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on Thursday as global concern grew over its safety in a war raging ever closer to its six reactors.
• Russian troops seized control of the site _ Europe`s biggest atomic facility _in early March


7. Argentina`s VP escapes attempted assassination

• Argentina`s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner escaped unharmed on Thursday after a man fired a loaded gun at her that failed to go off inches from her head.
• The attack, which the economy minister called an assassination attempt, comes at a time of acute political and social friction inside Argentina.
• It happened as Fernandez de Kirchner stepped out of a car outside her Buenos Aires home, where hundreds of supporters had gathered.
• Video footage showed a man holding a pistol next to her head. President Alberto Fernandez said the gun had been loaded with five bullets


8. Russia scraps gas pipeline reopening, deepens Europe`s problems

• Russia scrapped a Saturday deadline to resume flows via a major gas supply route to Europe after saying it had discovered a fault in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline during maintenance, deepening Europe`s difficulties in securing fuel for winter.
• Nord Stream 1, which runs under the Baltic Sea to supply Germany and others, had been due to resume operating on Saturday at 0100 GMT after a three-day halt for maintenance.
• But Gazprom, the state-controlled firm with a monopoly on Russian gas exports via pipeline, said on Friday it could not safely restart deliveries until it had fixed an oil leak found in a vital pipeline turbine. It did not give a new timeframe


9. Lanka`s ex-president returns from exile

• Sri Lanka`s depose d president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to the country on September 2, 2022, an airport official said, seven weeks after he fled in the face of angry protests over the island`s worst-ever economic crisis.
• Rajapaksa was garlanded with flowers by a welcoming party of ministers and politicians as he disembarked at the main international airport, the official said, adding that the 73-year-old leader had returned from Bangkok via Singapore


10. Pakistan crush HK to reach Asia Cup Super 4

• Mohammad Rizwan propelled Pakistan into the Asia Cup Super Four Stage as their bowlers skittled out minnows Hong Kong for a record low of 38 here at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on September 2, 2022.
• Pakistan scored 193-2 in a must-win Twenty20 International with Rizwan (78 not out) and Fakhar Zaman (53) putting on 116 runs after being invited to bat first on a slow and low pitch.
• Spinners Shadab Khan and Mohammad Nawaz then shared seven wickets to bundle out Hong Kong in 10.4 overs and win by 155 runs Pakistan`s biggest T20 victory margin by runs.
• It was Hong Kong`s lowest T20 International total after their 69 against Nepal in 2014. It was also the lowest against Pakistan by any team after they bowled out West Indies for 60 in 2018

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