Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Nov 15 2023) for CSS

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6. Israeli minister says Palestinians should leave Gaza `voluntarily`

A senior far-right member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s government said on Tuesday Gaza could not survive as an independent entity and it would be better for Palestinians there to leave for other countries.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who heads one of the religious nationalist parties in Netanyahu`s coalition, said he supported a call by two members of the Israeli parliament who wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial that Western countries should accept Gazan families who expressed a desire to relocate

7. UK parliamentarians to vote on Gaza ceasefire today

Members of the UK House of Commons are likely to vote on Wednesday on an amendment brought by the Scottish National Party on an immediate ceasefire and halt to fighting in Gaza.
The motion was moved last week by the Scottish National Party, which said it intends to seek a vote calling on the UK government to `join the international community in urgently pressing all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire` Last week, SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer `cannot just sit on their hands` while `collective punishment` takes place

8. Russia to supply anti-aircraft missiles to India

Russia has signed a contract to supply Igla-S hand-held anti-aircraft missiles to India and allow production of the Igla there under licence, the Russian state news agency TASS quoted a top arms export official as saying on Tuesday.
The Igla-S is a man portable air defence system (MANPADS) that can be fired by an individual or crew to bring down an enemy aircraft

9. Iraq`s top court dismisses powerful parliament speaker

The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court on Tuesday terminated parliament speaker Mohammed Halbousi`s tenure, state media said, in a shock decision that upends the career of Iraq`s most powerful Sunni politician and sets the stage for a fight over succession.
In a video shared by his media office, Halbousi said the decision was `strange` and implied that it violated the constitution and under-mined national stability, though he did not elaborate

10. Brightest flash ever disturbed Earth`s atmosphere last year

Last year the brightest flash of light ever seen in the night sky disturbed Earth`s upper atmosphere in a way that has never before detected before, researchers said on Tuesday.
A massive burst of gamma rays from an enormous cosmic explosion around two billion light years away arrived at Earth on Oct 9, 2022, lighting up telescopes around the world.