Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (July 24 2023) for CSS

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July 24, 2023: International Current Affairs MCQs News

6. Italy hosts migration conference to extend Tunisia deal

• Italy hosted numerous national leaders in Rome on July 23, 2023, at a conference aimed at extending an EU-backed deal with Tunisia to curb the arrival of migrants to European shores.
• As presidents, premiers and ministers prepared to huddle for the talks, Pope Francis appealed to them to help the scores of people who try to enter Europe each year in search of a better life as they flee poverty and conflict.
• `The Mediterranean can no longer be the theatre of death and inhumanity`, the pontiff said during his weekly Angelus prayer

7. Russia strikes Odesa as Putin says Kyiv counterattack failed

• The Ukrainian port city of Odesa came under renewed Russian missile attack early on July 23, 2023, just hours before President Vladimir Putin declared that Kyiv`s counteroffensive had `failed` as he began two-day talks with his Belarus counterpart and ally Alexander Lukashenko.
• The longtime leaders met for the first time since Lukashenko helped end a mutiny by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Russia last month, in the biggest threat to Putin`s more than two-decade rule.
• `There is no counteroffensive, Lukashenko said, before being interrupted by Putin: `There is one, but it has failed

8. Iraq offers mediation to end war in Yemen

• Iraq has offered to mediate between warring parties in Yemen to end the country`s years-long war, Iraq`s top diplomat said at a press conference on July 23, 2023.
• Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein put forward the proposal during a visit from his Yemeni counterpart Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak.
• Iran-backed Houthi rebels seized the capital Sanaa in 2014 before a Saudi-led military coalition intervened the following year on the side of the country`s internationally recognised government

July 24, 2023: Sports Current Affairs MCQs News

9. Tayyab stars as Shaheens outclass India A to retain Emerging Asia Cup title

• Tayyab Tahir`s sparkling century helped Pakistan Shaheens beat India A by 128 runs in the final of the ACC Men`s Emerging Teams Asia Cup at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on July 23, 2023.
• This was Shaheens` second successive Emerging Teams Asia Cup title, after the side defeated Bangladesh in the 2019 edition final.
• After being put into bat, the openers provided a solid 121run start to the innings. Saim Ayub (59 off 51, seven fours and two sixes) was the first batter to return to the hut. His opening partner Sahibzada Farhan (65 off 62, four fours and four sixes) was the next batter to be dismissed with 146runsontheboard

10. Pakistan lift World Junior Squash trophy

• Pakistan`s Hamza Khan trumped his Egyptian rival to win the 2023 WSF World Junior Squash Championship, on July 23, 2023
• He became the first Pakistani to win the championship since Jansher Khan`s victory 37 years ago in 1986.
• In the men`s final at Melbourne Sports Centres, Khan triumphed over 15-year-old Mohamed Zakaria, who would have become the youngest-ever winner of the men`s event