August 2023

Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (August 28 2023) for CSS

6. Second cargo ship leaves Odesa despite threat

  • Ukraine said on Sunday a second civilian cargo ship had left the southern port of Odesa, despite warnings from Russia that vessels using Ukraine`s Black Sea ports could be considered targets.
  • Kyiv announced the new maritime corridor earlier this month after Russia left the Black Sea grain deal, which aimed to ensure safe navigation for civilian grain shipments from Ukraine ports

7. Doubts mount as Russia says Prigozhin is dead

  • Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was formally confirmed dead on Sunday following genetic analysis, investigators said, as anger and questions over what caused his plane to crash earlier in the week continued to mount.
  • Speculation that the Kremlin may have been involved in the crash has been rife, with the incident coming exactly two months after Wagner staged a mutiny against Moscow`s military leadership

8. US plea proposal for 9/11 suspects splits victims` relatives

  • A proposal to allow alleged perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks to plead guilty and avoid the death penalty poses a powerful dilemma for victims` families, some of whom still want to seek the ultimate retribution after two decades of legal limbo.
  • The proposal detailed by prosecutors in a letter this month could offer families of the nearly 3,000 victims the best path to a resolution of a case bogged down in pre-trial manoeuvrings in the Guantanamo military commissions for years and with no end in sight

9. France to outlaw abayas in schools, says minister

  • French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France`s strict secular laws in education.
  • `It will no longer be possible to wear an abaya at school,` Education Minister Gabriel Attal told TF1 television, saying he would give `clear rules at the national level` to school heads ahead of the return to classes nationwide from September 4.

10. Arshad makes history with javelin silver at World Athletics

  • When Arshad Nadeem saw the javelin land on his third attempt, he looked up and smiled for the world.
  • A season`s best throw of 87.82 metres at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday had lifted Arshad from sixth to second place in the javelin throw final, only behind India`s Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra.
  • Chopra had set the bar with his first legitimate throw on the second attempt when he threw the javelin 88.17 metres

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