Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Apr 29 2023) for CSS

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6. UAE astronaut in first spacewalk by an Arab

• Emirati astronaut Sultan Alneyadi stepped out of the International Space Station (ISS) on April 28, 2023 for the first spacewalk by an Arab astronaut, a moment touted by the UAE as a `milestone`.
• Alneyadi, 41, dubbed the `Sultan of Space` by his alma mater, become the first Arab astronaut to embark on a six-month space mission when he blasted off for the ISS in early March aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
• On Friday, he undertook `the first Arab spacewalk in history,` wearing a space suit that bears the Emirati flag, said the United Arab Emirates` Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), calling it `a new historic milestone`

7. Court bans sperm donation by `father of hundreds`

• A Dutch court on April 28, 2023 ordered a man who judges said had fathered between 500 and 600 children around the world to stop donating sperm.
• The 41-year-old Dutchman, identified by de Telegraaf newspaper as Jonathan Meijer, was forbidden to donate more semen to clinics, the court ruling said. He could be fined $110,000 per infraction.
• The court also ordered Meijer to write to clinics abroad asking them to destroy any of his semen they have in stock, except doses reserved for parents who already had children by him

8. UAE`s first gaming resort to cost $3.9 billion, open in 2027

• The United Arab Emirates` first gaming resort will open in four years and cost $3.9 billion to build, US casino operator Wynn has said, unveiling new details of the project.
• The resort in Ras Al-Khaimah, one of the UAE`s seven emirates, will feature `exceptional entertainment and gaming amenities`, Wynn Resorts said on its website.
• Gambling is generally prohibited under Islamic laws in the oil-rich Gulf state. But Ras Al-Khaimah`s tourism development authority last year announced a new body to regulate `integrated resorts`, including gaming facilities. Preliminary construction work has begun on Wynn Al Marjan Island, set on a man-made and hotel-studded promontory, Wynn Resorts said on Thursday in a statement

9. Embassies in Riyadh, Tehran to open `within days`: Iranian FM

• Saudi Arabia and Iran will open embassies in each other`s capitals `within days,` Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on April 28, 2023, as the relationship between the two regional rivals warms up after years of hostility.
• Speaking at a news conference in the Lebanese capital Beirut, Amirabdollahian did not give specific dates for the reopening of the embassies. The countries agreed to restore relations in March.
• The Iranian and Saudi embassies in the respective countries have been closed since 2016. The relationship started deteriorating in 2015 following the intervention of Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the Yemen war, after the Iran aligned Houthi movement toppled the Saudi-backed government and seized control of the capital Sanaa

10. India arms Hindu militias to combat Kashmiri fighters

• Brandishing a bolt action rifle, civil servant Sanjeet Kumar is one of 5,000 Kashmiri villagers who have joined all-Hindu militia units armed and trained by Indian forces to fight off attacks.
• Delhi has more than half a million soldiers permanently stationed in parts of held Kashmir, as the Hindu nationalist government presses a bid to crush anti-India fighters.
• Authorities announced the new militias last year, and a deadly assault in Kumar`s village in January prompted him to sign up