Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Jan 23 2024) for CSS

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6. Israeli forces storm hospital in Khan Yunis

Israeli forces, advancing deep into southern Gaza`s Khan Yunis city on Monday in the heaviest assault of the new year so far, stormed one hospital and placed another under siege, cutting the wounded off from trauma care.
Troops advanced for the first time into Khan Yunis`s western part, near the Mediterranean coast

7. Turkish legislature to vote on Sweden`s Nato membership this week

Turkiye`s parliament is expected to end more than a year of delays that severely strained its ties with Western allies and approve Sweden`s membership of Nato this week.
CNN Turk said a vote could be held as early as Tuesday while a source said that it might be held on Thursday.
Turkey`s ratification would leave Hungary as the last holdout in an accession process that Sweden and its neighbour Finland began in response to Russia`s invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago. Finland became the 31st member of the US-led defence alliance last April

8. US sanctions airline, Iraqi militia leaders after attacks on troops

The United States announced sanctions on Monday on Iraqi low-cost airline Fly Baghdad, saying it provided assistance to Iran`s Revolutionary Guards and proxies, while also targeting leaders of a pro-Iranian Iraq militia for sanctions.
The moves come as Iraq`s powerful pro-Iranian armed group Kataeb Hezbollah has `carried out a series of sharply escalating drone and missile attacks against US personnel in Iraq and Syria,` said the US Treasury Department in a statement

9. Families of prisoners interrupt Israeli parliament to demand their release

Relatives of Israeli prisoners in Hamasruled Gaza interrupted a parliamentary meeting on Monday, demanding the government take urgent action to get them released.
The group broke into a meeting of the Knesset`s finance committee, chanting `everybody and now` to urge the return of all hostages. `You sit here while our children are dying over there,` Gilad Korngold, father of Tal Shoham, yelled, a correspondent reported

10. WHO chief warns pandemic accord hangs in the balance

The World Health Organisation chief fears plans for a global pandemic preparedness agreement will fall apart amid wrangling and disinformation, warning on Monday that future generations `may not forgive us`.
Shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO`s 194 member states decided more than two years ago to start negotiating an international accord aimed at ensuring countries are better equipped to deal with the next health catastrophe, or to prevent it altogether