Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Dec 01 2023) for CSS

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6. UNSC fails to endorse ceasefire

The UN General Assembly and Security Council deliberated on the Palestinian issue over the past two days, but failed to endorse a ceasefire despite the acknowledged urgency for peace in Gaza, where over 14,000 civilians have been killed since Oct 7.
No concrete call for a ceasefire was made, and despite UN officials conveying the seriousness of the situation in Gaza to the 15-member Council, including a plea by Secretary General António Guterres for a `true humanitarian ceasefire`, the member states did not endorse the call for peace

7. China backs two-state solution

China called on the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to formulate a `concrete` timetable and roadmap for a two-state solution to achieve a `comprehensive, just and lasting` settlement of the Palestinian issue.
The proposal was laid out in a paper stating China`s position on resolving the Palestinian-Israeli issue released by the Chinese foreign ministry, and as China took over the rotating presidency of the Security Council for November

8. Russia bans `international LGBT movement`

Russia on Thursday banned the `international LGBT movement,` claiming it was an extremist group in a move that cements a long crackdown on the community as the Kremlin pushes ultra-conservative social values.
The conservative turn promoted by President Vladimir Putin often portrayed as an existential fight against Western liberal values-has accelerated since the offensive in Ukraine

9. Japan asks US military to ground Osprey aircraft

Japan said it has asked the US to suspend all non-emergency V-22 Osprey flights over its territory after one fell into the sea on Wednesday in western Japan, marking the country`s first fatal US military plane crash in five years.
The US Air Force said the cause of the mishap during a routine training mission, which killed at least one person, is currently unknown. Search and rescue operations to find the remaining seven crew are still ongoing

10. Kissinger, exponent of raw US power, dies at 100

Henry Kissinger, the most powerful US diplomat of the Cold War era, who helped Washington open up to China, forge arms control deals with the Soviet Union and end the Vietnam War but who was reviled by critics over human rights, has died at the age of 100.
Kissinger, a German-born Jewish refugee whose career took him from academia to diplomacy and who remained an active voice in foreign policy into his later years, died at his home in Connecticut on Wednesday, his geopolitical consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, said