Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Jun 25 2023) for CSS

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6. Cop martyred in Turbat bombing

• A constable was martyred and two others, including a policewoman, were injured in a suicide attack carried out by a female bomber targeting a security convoy in Turbat town on June 24, 2023.
• The banned Baloch Liberation Army`s Majeed Brigade group claimed responsibility for Saturday`s attack. The banned organisation identified the bomber as Sumaiya Qalandarani. This was the second suicide attack carried out by a Baloch woman after Shari Baloch targeted a van carrying Chinese teachers at Karachi University in April 2022.
• Official sources said a convoy of security forces, coming from the Turbat airport area, was passing through the Chakar Azam Chowk when the suicide bomber, who was lying in wait, blew herself up

7. Russian mercenary force halts march on Moscow

• The rebel Wagner mercenary force threatened to march on Moscow on June 24, 2023 before announcing a stunning pullback, as Kyiv seized on the chaos to launch new assaults against Russian positions in Ukraine.
• Before Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin`s apparent climb down, Russian regular forces had launched what one regional governor called a `counter-terrorist operation` to halt the Wagner advance northwards up a main highway towards Moscow.
• The private army captured a key military headquarters in southern Russia, and sent a force north to threaten the capital, defying Vladimir Putin`s warning of civil war

8. No evidence Covid created in Chinese lab, says US intelligence

• The head of US intelligence said on Friday that there was no evidence that the Covid-19 virus was created in the Chinese government`s Wuhan research lab.
• In a declassified report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said they had no information backing recent claims that three scientists at the lab were some of the very first infected with Covid-19 and may have created the virus themselves.
• Drawing on intelligence collected by various member agencies of the US intelligence community (IC), the ODNI report said some scientists at the Wuhan lab had done genetic engineering of coronaviruses similar to Covid-19

9. Russia, China block move for new Antarctic marine reserves

• Members of a multinational group on Antarctic conservation failed to agree on June 24, 2023 on a roadmap for the creation of three new marine protected areas a goal that has proven elusive for years.
• `No agreement was reached. It was not possible to obtain… a road map` for protected areas in the seas around Antarctica, Cesar Cardenas, a member of the Chilean Antarctic Institute and part of the Chilean delegation, said. Cardenas said Russia and China resisted new protected areas.
• The bid to create the sanctuaries around Antarctica to counter climate change and protect fragile ocean ecosystems would safeguard nearly four million more square kilometres of ocean from human activities. The areas are home to penguins, seals, tooth fish, whales and huge numbers of krill a staple food for many species

10. US firms pump money in India as Biden eyes geopolitical goals

• Amazon and Google are the latest companies to announce massive investment plans in India amid US President Joe Biden`s efforts to `send a message to China` by cementing India`s position as a close ally.
• Amazon said on Friday it will take its investments in India to $26 billion by 2030, adding $6.5bn in new planned investments in an announcement made after CEO Andy Jassy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the United States.
• Though Jassy gave no breakdown, the announcement follows Amazon`s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services saying last month it will invest INR1.06tr in the country by the end of2030