July 03, 2023: International Current Affairs MCQs
6. Border rules block poor nations from world summits
• When Nigerian lawyer Obioma Adesewa Okonkwo was booked to speak at the Rights Con conference in Costa Rica, she made sure to submit her visa application several months in advance.
• As the date approached with no sign of her travel documents being granted, she felt she had no choice but to cancel her trip and contact organisers at advocacy group Access Now to arrange to join online instead.
• More than 300 participants were unable to attend the digital rights conference in person due to visa issues, Access Now said in a statement
7. Blasts rock Khartoum; Sudan army renews call for volunteers
• Explosions again rocked Sudan`s capital Khartoum on July 3, 2023 as the army rallied civilians to take up arms against a renewed onslaught by its paramilitary foes.
• The sound of artillery fire shook the dawn in northwest Khartoum and progressed towards the centre and east of the city, witnesses said.
• The fighting `began at 4:00am (0200 GMT) and is still going,` one resident said
8. Eight Palestinians killed in brazen Israeli raid on Jenin
• Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in a large-scale operation on Monday in the occupied West Bank in what the army labelled an `extensive counterterrorism effort` involving drone strikes and hundreds of troops as the US backed the operation, saying Israel has the right to ensure its security and defend its people.
• The military raid launched under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s hard-right government in Jenin was the biggest in the West Bank in years, featuring armoured vehicles, army bulldozers and unmanned aerial vehicles. Gun battles and explosions rocked the city and adjacent refugee camp, a stronghold of armed groups, as Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli troops and smoke from the blasts and burning street barricades blackened the sky
9. Time appears five times slower in early universe: study
• Time appears to run five times slower in the early universe, scientists said on Monday, for the first time using extraordinarily bright cosmic objects called quasars as `clocks` to confirm this strange phenomenon.
• Einstein`s theory of relativity predicts that because space is expanding, `we should see the distant universe run in slow motion,` said Geraint Lewis, an astrophysicist at the University of Sydney and the lead author of a new study.
• Researchers had previously used observations of very bright exploding stars called supernovas as cosmic clocks to show that time ran twice as slowly back when the universe was half its current age
10. Polish climber dies, Pakistani stranded on Nanga Parbat
• A Polish climber lost his life due to acute altitude sickness while a 45-year-old Pakistani mountaineer was stranded at camp 4 as a result of snow blindness as they attempted to summit Nanga Parbat, which is over 8,126m-tall, on Sunday evening.
• The Alpine Club of Pakistan said Polish national Pawel Tomasz Kopec passed away on Nanga Parbat from `acute altitude sickness at a height of 7,400 metres`. Seven members of the Polish expedition team were attempting to climb the peak on Sunday. Diamer Deputy Commissioner Arif told Dawn that the fellows of the Polish expedition team continued their ascend, however. He said a plan to bring back the body from the peak will be chalked up after the return of the Polish team
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