Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Oct 19 2023) for CSS

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6. Biden backs Israel amid Arab rage over hospital tragedy

While Arab and Muslim nations on Wednesday squarely blamed Israel for the bombing of the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza that left over 470 Palestinians dead and demanded Tel Aviv`s accountability for the massacre, US President Joe Biden chose to deliver full backing to Israel by promising more aid to the country at the end of his one-day visit.
President Biden, whose impromptu trip to the Middle East was curtailed by the explosion, supported Tel Aviv`s allegation that a rocket fired by the Islamic Jihad group had caused the hospital tragedy

7. Six killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine

Russian overnight strikes on Ukraine`s Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions killed at least six people on Wednesday morning, Ukrainian officials said.
Five were killed in a missile strike that hit a residential building in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, the local governor said, and one in a strike on a town just outside the city of Dnipro, Ukraine`s internal affairs minister Igor Klymenko said

8. Sisi rejects displacement of Palestinians into Sinai

Egypt`s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egyptians in their millions would reject the forced displacement of Palestinians into Sinai, adding it would set a precedent for `the displacement of Palestinians from the West Bank into Jordan`.
The border between Egypt`s Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip is the site of the only crossing from the Palestinian territory that is not controlled by Israel. `What is happening now in Gaza is an attempt to force civilian residents to take refugee and migrate to Egypt, which should not be accepted,` Sisi told a joint news conference in Cairo with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

9. Xi rejects `bloc confrontation` as Belt & Road event ends

Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country rejected `economic coercion` and `bloc confrontation` on Wednesday, at the opening ceremony of a forum of international delegates to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which marked the 10th anniversary of the vast infrastructure project.
President Xi in his speech promised Beijing would not engage in `ideological confrontation, geopolitical games or bloc confrontation`, adding: `We oppose unilateral sanctions, economic coercion, decoupling and delinking

10. Clinical NZ rout Afghanistan to keep perfect record

New Zealand brought Afghanistan back down to earth with a 149-run victory on Wednesday to stretch their winning streak in the ICC World Cup.
Three days after stunning defending champions England, the plucky Afghans briefly kindled hopes of another upset when New Zealand`s top order suffered a mini-collapse.
The 2019 runners-up, however, went on to post 288-6 after skipper Tom Latham (68) and Glenn Phillips (71) smashed rapid half-centuries