Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Dec 29 2023) for CSS

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6. Qatar drops capital punishment for ex-Indian naval officers

A Qatar court has dropped the death sentence imposed on eight Indian former naval officers arrested there last year, India`s foreign ministry said on Thursday.
In October, India said it was `shocked` after the Qatari court had sentenced them to death.
The eight men, who were condemned to death in October, had been accused of spying for Israel according to sources though India and Qatar have not confirmed the charges

7. UN asks Israel to end killings in West Bank

The United Nations said on Thursday the human rights situation in the occupied West Bank was rapidly deteriorating and urged Israel to `end unlawful killings` against the Palestinian population.
A report released on Thursday demanded an immediate end to the use of military weapons and means during law enforcement operations, an end to arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of Palestinians, and the lifting of discriminatory movement restrictions

8. Israeli tanks push towards settlements of the displaced

Israeli tanks advanced deep into a central Gaza town on Thursday, while an airstrike in the southern town of Rafah claimed the lives of at least 20, and left 55 others wounded.
A Palestinian journalist posted pictures of Israeli tanks near a mosque in a built-up area of Bureij which had apparently advanced from orchards on the eastern outskirts

9. India targets high-profile journalists with spyware: Amnesty

The Indian government has again targeted high-profile journalists with Pegasus spyware, Amnesty International and The Washington Post said in a joint investigation published on Thursday.
Created by Israeli firm NSO Group, Pegasus can be used to access a phone`s messages and emails, peruse photos, eavesdrop on calls, track locations and even film the owner with the camera

10. US military`s secretive spaceplane ready for launch to higher orbit

After weeks of false starts and delays, SpaceX teams prepared again on Thursday to launch the military`s secretive X-37B robot spaceplane on its seventh mission, the first atop a rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before.
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is due for a nighttime blast-off from Nasa`s Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, on Florida`s Atlantic coast, during a 10-minute launch window starting at 8:07pm on Friday. A series of three launch countdowns were aborted earlier this month due to poor weather and unspecified technical issues, leading ground crews to roll the spacecraft back to its hangar before proceeding with the latest launch attempt