Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (July 20 2023) for CSS

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6. KP governor approves summary to remove ANP caretaker minister

• Khyber Paktunkhwa Governor Haji Ghulam Ali has approved a summary for removal of the caretaker minister for industry, commerce and revenue, Adnan Jalil, from the cabinet.
• Governor`s House confirmed that the summary for removal of the caretaker minister, affiliated with Awami National Party, was approved.
• However, the notification of his removal from the caretaker cabinet was not yet issued. Jalil, however, is unaware of the rea-sons for his removal

July 20, 2023: International Current Affairs MCQs News

7. Putin says Russia will return to grain deal if demands met

• Russian President Vladimir Putin said on July 19, 2023 that Moscow would `consider` returning to the Ukraine grain deal if its demands were `fully` met, saying the agreement had `lost all meaning.
• It was the first time the Russian leader commented since Moscow this week exited the landmark deal, which allowed the safe passage of cargo ships from Black Sea ports.
• `The continuation of the grain deal in its current form has lost all meaning,` Putin said at a government meeting

8. Three Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli strikes

• Israeli air strikes on July 19 near Syria`s capital Damascus killed three fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad`s regime and wounded four others, a war monitor said.
• Syrian state news agency SANA earlier reported two soldiers had been wounded in the strikes overnight Tuesday-Wednesday. It quoted a military source as saying the bombing targeted `certain positions in the vicinity of Damascus`.
• The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the targets included warehouses used by Lebanon`s Iranbacked Hezbollah group

9. Putin to skip BRICS summit in S. Africa after arrest threat

• Vladimir Putin, who is under an international arrest warrant, will not attend a BRICS nations summit in South Africa next month, the country`s presidency said on Wednesday, ending months of speculation over whether the Russian President would show up.
• Putin`s potential visit has been a thorny diplomatic issue for Pretoria.
• The Russian leader is the target of an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant a provision that South Africa as an ICC member would be expected to implement were he to set foot in the country

10. US needs `Kissinger-style wisdom` in its China policies, says Wang

• The United States needs `Kissinger-style diplomatic wisdom` in its China policies, top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told the former US state secretary in Beijing on Wednesday, as both countries struggle to repair relations.
• Henry Kissinger served as US state secretary and national security advisor in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and played a key diplomatic role in normalising ties between Washington and Beijing in the1970s