Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Aug 19 2023) for CSS

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6. KP chief minister picks 12-strong new cabinet

Caretaker Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mohammad Azam Khan on Friday picked his new cabinet comprising nine ministers and two advisers and a special assistant to him.
The administration department is yet to notify the caretaker cabinet having four members from the last. The oath-taking ceremony is likely to take place today (Saturday).
The ministers-designate include Syed Masud Shah, Barrister Feroze Jamal Shah Kakakhel, retired Justice Irshad Qaiser, Ahmad Rasool Bangash, Asif Rafiq, Dr Najeebullah, Dr Mohammad Qasim Jan, retired Justice Arshad Hussain Shah and Syed Aamir Abdullah

August 19, 2023: International Current Affairs MCQs News

7. Sweden considers allowing police to stop desecration of Holy Quran

Sweden`s government is considering changing the Public Order Act to make it possible for police to deny permission for acts such as desecrating the Holy Quran, but only if they threaten national security, it said on Friday.
Sweden raised its terrorist alert to the second highest level on Thursday, saying it had thwarted attacks after several incidents of the desecration of Holy Quran outraged Muslims and triggered threats from militants

8. Russia has lost 120 troops in Ukraine, says NYT

THE number of Ukrainian and Russian troops killed or wounded since the war in Ukraine began in Feb 2022 is nearing 500,000, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed US officials.
The officials cautioned that casualty figures remained difficult to estimate because Moscow is believed to routinely undercount its war dead and injured, and Kyiv does not disclose official figures, the newspaper said.

9. As relations thaw, Iran`s FM meets Saudi crown prince

Saudi Arabia`s Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman met Iran`s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Friday, as the latter extended his visit for a day, in the highest-level talks since the countries reconciled in March after years of bitter rivalry.
The unscheduled meeting in Jeddah comes a day after Amirabdollahian arrived in the kingdom and declared ties between the countries were `on the right track`, following talks with his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan

10. US salutes `new era` of united Tokyo, Seoul in face of China

US President Joe Biden and the leaders of Japan and South Korea said they saw a `new chapter` with greater three-way security cooperation as they met for a first-of-a-kind summit.
Going tieless in the Camp David presidential retreat, Biden praised the `political courage` of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in turning the page on historical animosity