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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 20, 2022) for CSS, PMS

September 20, 2022
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6. Ukraine accuses Russia of strike on southern nuclear plant

• Kyiv accused Russia on September 19, 2022 of attacking Ukraine`s second-largest nuclear plant in the south of the war scarred country, the latest burst of fighting around atomic facilities that has raised fears of a radiation emergency.
• The Kremlin meanwhile dismissed outright claims that their forces had been responsible for mass killings in recently captured areas of east Ukraine and said Ukraine`s claims it had discovered mass graves were made up.
• Ukraine`s nuclear energy agency, Energoatom, said the Russian army `carried out a missile attack` on the industrial site of the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant, with a `powerful explosion` just 300 metres (985 feet) from its reactors

7. Israeli troops enter Syria to pursue `suspects`

• Israeli forces crossed into Syria on September 19, 2022 and fired at four individuals who had `hurled objects along the border fence`, wounding one of them, the army said.
• Israel, which regularly carries out air strikes inside Syria`s territory, rarely publicly acknowledges cross-border operations.
• According to an Israeli army statement, `observation soldiers spotted four suspects` near Haspin in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, without providing any specific information on what they were throwing

8. UN chief warns education becoming `great divider`

• UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on September 191, 2022 that unequal education was quickly dividing the planet as he sought to keep development on the agenda ahead of a week of diplomacy focused on global crises.
• The UN chief called a special summit on education a day before world leaders meet for the annual General Assembly, although a number of key officials including US President Joe Biden delayed their arrivals in New York due to Queen Elizabeth II`s funeral.
• `Education is in a deep crisis. Instead of being the great enabler, education is fast becoming the great divide,` Guterres told the summit. He warned that the Covid-19 pandemic has had a `devastating impact` on learning, with poor students lacking technology at a particular disadvantage, and conflicts further disrupting schools. Guterres appealed to all countries to prioritize increasing spending per student even amid question marks over the global economy

9. Taliban release US national in exchange for key ally

• An American navy veteran detained in Afghanistan since 2020 was released by the Taliban on September 9, 2022 in exchange for an ally who spent 17 years in a US jail for heroin smuggling, Afghanistan`s foreign minister said.
• US President Joe Biden confirmed that Afghanistan had released an American engineer held prisoner for 31 months. `Today, we have secured the release of Mark Frerichs, and he will soon be home,` Biden said in a statement, adding that the release `required difficult decisions`.
• Mark Frerichs was working as a civil engineer on construction projects in Afghanistan when he was `taken hostage`, Washington previously said

10. How many ants are on Earth? 20 quadrillion, study says

• There are at least 20 quadrillion ants on Earth, according to a new study that says even that staggering figure likely underestimates the total population of the insects, which are an essential part of ecosystems around the world.
• Determining the global population of ants is important for measuring the consequences of changes to their habitat including those caused by climate change.
• Ants play a significant role, dispersing seeds, hosting organisms and serving as either predators or prey.
• Some studies have already attempted to estimate the global ant population, but they resulted in a far smaller number than 20 quadrillion, which is 20 million billion

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