February 14, 2022: International Current Affairs MCQs
5. Mystery deepens as China accuses US of sending balloons into its airspace
• China on February 13, 2023 accused the United States of flying balloons over its territory, hitting back against Washington`s claims that Beijing has been operating a Heet of surveillance aircraft around the world.
• Washington strenuously denied Beijing`s charges as `false` and insisted it was China alone that has surreptitiously flown spy balloons, as tensions ramped up between the two superpowers.
• The downing of an alleged Chinese airship off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month prompted a resolution in the US Congress condemning Beijing, while subsequent downings of other unidentified objects over North America in recent days have sparked widespread jitters and speculation as to their origins. Only the first object has been officially attributed to China, with Beijing insisting it was a civilian craft that had blown off course
6. French general terms Wagner militia formidable adversary
• Wagner, a controversial Russian mercenary outfit which is active in the invasion of Ukraine but also in Africa, is a `formidable adversary` because of the price it is prepared to pay to achieve its goals, a French general said on February 13, 2023.
• Wagner, run by the businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin seen as close to President Vladimir Putin, is playing an increasingly important role in Moscow`s war in Ukraine as Russia seeks to reverse recent battlefield setbacks. It has employed unorthodox tactics, including a campaign to find new recruits in Russia`s prison system, but is also accused of committing serial abuses on the battlefield.
7. Portugal`s Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 5,000 minors: inquiry
• Catholic clergy in Portugal have abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, an independent commission said on February 13, 2023 after hearing hundreds of victims` accounts.
• Thousands of reports of paedophilia within the Catholic Church have surfaced around the world and Pope Francis is under pressure to tackle the scandal.
• The Portuguese inquiry, commissioned by the Church in the staunchly Catholic country, published its findings after hearing from more than 500 victims last year
8. Nato chief says Ukraine using more munitions than `we are producing`
• Nato needs `to ramp up production` of ammunition as Ukraine`s rate of usage is far outstripping current capacities and draining stockpiles, the defence alliance`s chief Jens Stoltenberg said on February 13, 2023.
• `The war in Ukraine is consuming an enormous amount of munitions, and depleting allied stockpiles,` Stoltenberg told journalists. `The current rate of Ukraine`s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production.
• This puts our defence industries under strain
9. Saudi Arabia to send its first woman into space
• Saudi Arabia will send its first-ever woman astronaut on a space mission later this year, state media has reported, in the latest move to revamp the kingdom`s ultra-conservative image.
• Rayyana Barnawi will join fellow Saudi male astronaut Ali Al-Qarni on a mission to the International Space Station `during the second quarter of 2023`, the official Saudi Press Agency said.
• It added that the astronauts `will join the crew of the AX-2 space mission` and the space flight will `launch from the US`.
February 14, 2022: Sports Current Affairs MCQs
10. Pakistan Super League Qalandars edge Sultans by one run in last-ball thriller
• As Mohammad Rizwan gave himself room to swing his arms, Shaheen Shah Afridi hit the bulls-eye; the Lahore Qalandars skipper coming up trumps in a battle with his Pakistan teammate with a perfect yorker to dismantle the stumps of the Multan Sultans captain and setting up a grandstand finish in the opening game of the eighth edition of the HBL Pakistan Super League at the Multan Cricket Stadium.
• Rizwan`s 75 had put Sultans on top but after his dismissal, the Qalandars sensed blood. The Sultans, chasing 176 to win, needed 42 runs off the last four overs and Haris Rauf backed his skipper by giving away just four runs in the 17th over. David Miller got lucky in Shaheen`s next over with an inside edge that went for four but he was soon walking back for 19 when Haris` searing yorker undid him in the penultimate over
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