Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Dec 13 2023) for CSS

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6. Israel needs new govt, Biden tells Netanyahu in rare, harsh rebuke

In a rare rebuke of Israel, US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed to change his hardline government and, in an attempt to exert pressure on Tel Aviv, said it cannot say no to a Palestinian state in the future.
Biden`s stinging remarks at a fundraising event for his re-election campaign were a further sign of growing US concern at Israel`s relentless campaign against Gaza, in which over 18,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed so far

7. Emergency UN Assembly session to vote on Gaza ceasefire

The UN General Assembly held a crucial emergency session on Gaza this Tuesday, addressing a severe humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory.
The focus was on a draft resolution urging an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, where relentless Israeli attacks have led to the tragic loss of over 18,000 Palestinian lives

8. UN forum to press states to help ll4m refugees

As the number of refugees soars worldwide, the United Nations is appealing for countries to support displaced people at a global summit this week with the aim of showing that `change is possible`.
The UN is convening the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva with thousands due to participate, including heads of government and state, in a search for concrete responses to record displacements

9. West Bank drone attack claims 5 lives

Six Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, including five in a drone strike during an Israeli raid, the Palestinian health ministry and the Palestinian official news agency WAFA said.
They said the dead included a 13-year-old child who killed after Israeli forces prevented an ambulance from transferring him to the hospital to receive medical treatment

10. Fossil fuel discord forces COP28 into overtime

Negotiators haggled to reach a compromise over the fate of fossil fuels on Tuesday as the UN climate summit went into overtime, with a Saudi-led bloc resisting a phase-out of oil, gas and coal.
Set in the glitzy Middle Eastern metropolis that was built on petrodollars, the 13-day COP28 conference has debated a historic first ever global exit from fossil fuels, considered by scientists to be main culprits in the crisis of global warming