Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Nov 29 2023) for CSS

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6. 30 Palestinians freed amid talks to extend truce

At least 30 Palestinians were released from Israeli prisons late on Tuesday night, while Hamas also freed 12 more prisoners on the penultimate day of an extended six day truce.
Al Jazeera TV broadcast live footage of a bus carrying Palestinian prisoners as it left Israel`s Ofer prison on its way to the West Bank city of Beitunia, while the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that 10 Israelis and two foreigners including nine women and one child were released from Gaza

7. Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank

Two Palestinian teenagers were killed on Tuesday by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.
According to the ministry, Amir Wahdan, 14, was killed in Tubas in the northern West Bank, where the army said troops had gone in to arrest `two wanted suspects`

8. Govt offices in EU can ban religious symbols: court

Government offices in the EU can ban employees wearing religious symbols such as Islamic headscarves, even when they do not have contact with the public, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled on Tuesday.
Such a rule can be imposed `in order to put in place an entirely neutral administrative environment,` the court said.
The judgement derived from a case lodged by a worker in a Belgian local government office who challenged a ban on her wearing an Islamic headscarf, feeling that it infringed on her freedom of religion and she was being discriminated against

9. `End of Aids by 2030` if frontline services get proper funding: UN

The United Nations said on Tuesday it is still possible to reach the `end of Aids` by 2030 but only if communities and services on the ground are given the means.
The UNAIDS agency said in its annual World Aids Day Report that community-led responses are unrecognised, under resourced and in some places under attack

10. All 41 Indian workers rescued from tunnel after 17 days

Indian workers were greeted with wild cheers and flower garlands on Tuesday as rescuers safely brought out all 41 from the collapsed Himalayan road tunnel where they were trapped after a marathon 17-day engineering operation.
With beaming smiles, the rescued men were welcomed as heroes after being hauled through 57 metres of steel pipe on stretchers specially fitted with wheels, where they were greeted by state officials before embracing their families