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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 06, 2022) for CSS, PMS

September 6, 2022
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6. Rs19.8bn disbursed among flood-hit people so far: BISP

• The Benazir Income Support Programme has said that the social safety network is providing Rs25000 to each family in flood-hit areas of the country, and so far the programme has disbursed more than Rs19.8 billion under the programme.
• As many as 793,701 affected families had received the humanitarian financial aid under the BISP`s Flood Relief Emergency Cash Assistance Programme.
• In Balochistan 90,396 families received Rs2.25bn; 466,045 families in Sindh received Rs11.6bn; 98,677 families of KP received Rs2.4bn; and 138,583 families in Punjab received Rs3.4bn.
• All payment centres have been kept open on holidays for disbursement of payments to affected families

7. Truss named as UK`s third woman prime minister

• Britain`s new Conservative leader Liz Truss on September 5, 2022 vowed `bold` action to confront a biting economic crisis as she was confirmed as successor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson after a gruelling party contest.
• The foreign secretary also resisted pressure for a politically perilous early election to confirm her new mandate, vowing to `deliver a great victory for the Conservative party in 2024`.
• Truss beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by about 57 to 43 percent after a summer-long contest decided by just over 170,000 Conservative members a tiny sliver of Britain`s electorate.
• Truss ignored the applauding Sunak as she marched up to the stage of the central London convention hall, calling it an `honour` to be elected after undergoing `one of the longest job interviews in history`

8. Two Russian embassy staff among six killed in Kabul attack

• A suicide bomber struck near the Russian embassy in Kabul, on September 5, 2022, killing two staff members from the diplomatic mission, along with four others.
• In the first attack targeting a foreign mission since the Taliban seized power in August last year, the bomber struck near the entrance of the embassy`s consular section. `Without any doubt, we are talking about a terrorist act, which is absolutely unacceptable,` Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in Moscow.
• Afghanistan`s foreign ministry confirmed the deaths of two embassy staff. The ministry said an investigation had been launched and authorities `will not allow the enemies to sabotage relations between both countries with such negative actions`

9. Moscow `pauses` vote in Ukraine amid fightback

• Russian-installed authorities in an occupied Ukrainian region on September 5, 2022 suggested plans for a referendum on joining Russia had been delayed as Moscow blamed Western sanctions for a halt in gas supplies across Europe.
• Since the first weeks of the February invasion, Kherson and the southern region of Zaporizhzhia have been largely under Russia`s control and are now being forcefully integrated into its economy.
• Moscow-backed authorities have been for several weeks talking of holding referendums to officially join occupied territories to Russia, as happened in the 2014 annexation of Crimea

10. Israel `admits` killing Al Jazeera journalist

• The Israeli army has conceded for the first time since May that it is likely Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by an Israeli soldier who mistook her for a militant.
• `There is a high possibility that Ms Abu Akleh was accidentally hit by IDF (Israel Defence Forces) gunfire that was fired toward suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen,` said the army`s final investigation report on Monday.
• `Our conclusion is that it`s not possible to determine unequivocally which gunfire killed her, but there`s a higher probability that she was hit by an errant shot of an IDF soldier who did not identify her as a journalist,` a senior Israeli military official said

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