Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs /News (Dec 02 2023) for CSS

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6. Walkout, no-shows at COP28 as Israeli aggression resumes

Iran`s delegation walked out and Israel`s president cancelled his speech as tensions over the Gaza crisis spilled over at the UN COP28 climate talks in Dubai on Friday.
`It is impossible not to touch on the humanitarian crisis taking place in Palestinian territories close to us,` Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the environmental meeting

7. Moscow claims its forces are advancing on all fronts in Ukraine

Russia said on Friday its troops were advancing in every section of the Ukrainian front, despite observers seeing little movement.
The front lines have barely shifted this year, but fighting has remained intense. The latest major flashpoint is the nearly encircled industrial town of Avdiivka, where Ukraine said it was fending off assaults

8. World`s biggest experimental N-fusion reactor opens in Japan

The world`s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated in Japan on Friday, a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity`s future energy needs.
Fusion differs from fission, the technique currently used in nuclear power plants, by fusing two atomic nuclei instead of splitting one

9. Lawmaker Santos expelled from House after indictment

Indicted Republican George Santos` brief career in the US House of Representatives came to an end on Friday, when fellow lawmakers voted to expel him over criminal corruption charges and accusations of misspending campaign money.
The House voted 311114 to immediately remove the controversial freshman lawmaker, above the two-thirds majority required to oust one of its own

10. O`Connor, first woman in top US court, dies at 93

Retired US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O`Connor, the first woman appointed to the nation`s highest court and a noted pragmatist in an age of deep division, died on Friday. She was 93.
O`Connor died at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness, the court said in a statement