Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Dec 15 2023) for CSS

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6. Comms blackout as starving Gazans being bombed to dust

Israel pounded the length of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing families in their homes, even as a US envoy told Israel Washington wanted the war to end `as soon as possible`.
Internet and telephone services were cut across the war-torn Gaza Strip on Thursday, the Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel said, while the UN warned of the possibility of a `breakdown of civil order` in the Gaza Stripas aid organisations have struggled to get supplies to desperate Gazans

7. EU agrees to open membership talks with Ukraine

European Union leaders granted Ukraine a major political win on Thursday by agreeing to start membership negotiations at a time when its counter-offensive against Russia`s invasion has failed to make major gains and US military aid has become more uncertain.
Diplomats and officials in Brussels said the unexpected green light for talks took place as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had for weeks said he would block such a deal, agreed to leave the room, knowing the other leaders would go ahead and vote

8. 14 Indian MPs suspended for security breach protest

The curious security lapse in the Indian parliament took a curiouser turn on Thursday when the ruling party used its majority to expel 14 opposition MPs for demanding a statement from the home minister on the incident.
Four persons were placed on a 7-day remand for Wednesday`s security breach after two men from the group jumped into the Lol< Sabha from the visitor`s gal1ery and released yellow smoke from canisters while shouting antigovernment slogans. The other two released yellow smoke outside the parliament building

9. Tel Aviv not to resume prisoner talks in Qatar

Israel has canceled a planned trip to Qatar by the head of its foreign intelligence service to restart talks on a potential second prisoner release deal with Hamas, CNN reported on Thursday.
Mossad director David Barnea will not travel to Doha, where previous talks on the release of prisoners held by Hamas in Gaza have taken place, the source said

10. UK, US sanction Iranians linked to Quds Force, Palestinian groups

Britain said it had adopted a new sanctions regime against Iran on Thursday as it announced measures against seven individuals, including the head of Quds Force, for `threatening or planning the destabilisation of Israel`.
The British government said the new regime, which it said gave it greater powers to act against Iran and its decisionmakers, had been brought in response to `unprecedented threats` from Tehran to peace in the Middle East and to plots to kill individuals in Britain