Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Feb 28 2023) for CSS

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6. China urges peace in Ukraine after US warns against aiding Russia

• China said on February 28, 2023 it sought dialogue and a peaceful solution for Ukraine despite US warnings that Beijing might be considering weapons supplies for its ally Russia`s invasion.
• Air-raid sirens blared in the capital Kyiv and other cities overnight and a Russian missile killed one person in the western town of Khmelnitskyi, Mayor Oleksandr Symshyshyn said on the Telegram messaging app. The all-clear sounded after daybreak.
• China, which declared a `no limits` alliance with Russia shortly before the invasion a year ago, has refused to condemn the onslaught and last week published a 12-point plan calling for a ceasefire and gradual de-escalation by both sides

7. Putin decorates US actor Seagal with `friendship` award

• Russian President Vladimir Putin has bestowed a prestigious award on US actor Steven Seagal for his work on strengthening international `cooperation,` according to an official decree released on February 27, 2023.
• In the decades since the height of his Hollywood fame, Seagal has been an outspoken supporter of Putin, who granted the 70-year-old film star citizenship several year s ago.
• Moscow said Seagal had been given the Order of Friendship for his `major contribution to the development of international cultural and humanitarian cooperation.` Last August, Seagal visited the eastern Ukraine region of Donetsk, including the destroyed Olenivka detention centre where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners were reported to have died

8. Florida takes over Disney district

• Florida`s governor seized control of Walt Disney World`s self governing district on February 28, 2023, hailing the end of the `corporate kingdom` as he effectively punished the entertainment giant over its `woke` opposition to his political agenda.
• The bill allows Republican Ron DeSantis to appoint his own board to oversee the services provided in the theme park by Disney, which attracted the governor`s ire last year after it criticised a law banning school lessons on sexual orientation.
• `Today the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end,` said DeSantis, who is widely expected to join the race for the White House next year, as he signed the bill

9. Nepal`s ruling bloc in crisis after Communist rift

• Splits within Nepal`s communist dominated ruling coalition plunged the Himalayan nation into crisis on February 28, 2023 as a Marxist-Leninist party said it would withdraw support after the Maoist prime minister backed an opposition candidate for the presidency.
• Nepal has had 11 governments since it abolished its 239-year-old monarchy in 2008 and became a republic. It is due to appoint its next president on March 9.
• Current prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a former Maoist guerrilla leader in the mountainous nation sandwiched between China and India, has held the post three times

10. UK, EU clinch Brexit deal over N. Ireland trade

• Britain and the European Union proclaimed a `new chapter` in relations on February 28, 2023 as they agreed a crucial overhaul of trade rules in Northern Ireland that aims to ease tensions stoked by Brexit.
• Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen adopted the deal at a meeting in Windsor, west of London.
• The landmark deal follows more than a year of tense talks over the `Northern Ireland Protocol`, which has unsettled the province 25 years on from a historic peace deal that ended three decades of armed conflict