Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Sep 05 2023) for CSS

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6. World losing high-stakes fight against alien species: study

Invasive species that wreck crops, ravage forests, spread disease, and upend ecosystems are spreading ever faster across the globe, and humanity has not been able to stem the tide, a major scientific assessment said on Monday.
The failure is costing well over $400 billion dollars a year in damages and lost income the equivalent to the GDP of Denmark or Thailand and that is likely a `gross underestimation`, according to the intergovernmental science advisory panel for the UN Convention on Biodiversity (IPBES)

7. Israel opens embassy in Bahrain, agrees to boost trade ties

Israel`s foreign minister agreed on Monday with his Bahraini counterpart to boost trade relations, during his first visit to one of the two Gulf Arab states to establish ties with Israel.
`The foreign minister and I agreed that we should work together to increase the number of direct flights, the tourism, the trade volume, the investment,` Eli Cohen said during a ceremony to inaugurate Israel`s new embassy

8. France vigilant as abaya ban in schools begins

French authorities are watching over 500 schools for signs pupils could be violating a newly announced ban on the abaya Muslim dress for women, as children across the country return to class, the education minister said on Monday.
The government announced last month it was banning the abaya in schools, saying it broke the rules on secularism in education that have already seen Muslim headscarves banned

9. Biden `disappointed by Putin, Xi snubs to G20 summit

Since the first edition of G20 leaders` summit in 2008, President Xi Jinping for the very first time will snub the gathering being hosted by India this weekend, in a move that `disappointed` US President Joe Biden as Russian President Vladimir Putin has already decided to skip the New Delhi event.
However, Premier Li Qiang will lead China`s delegation to the G20 summit, while Russia will be represented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the meeting of the world`s biggest economies

10. Coup leader becomes Gabon`s interim president

General Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup last week that toppled Gabon`s 55-yearold ruling dynasty, took the oath of office as interim president on Monday, promising `free, transparent and credible elections` to restore civilian rule but without giving a time frame.
He also vowed amnesty to political prisoners, in a speech in which he insisted the coup had saved Gabon from bloodshed after elections that were `obviously loaded`. Oligui, head of the elite Republican Guard, last Wednesday led officers to detain President Ali Bongo Ondimba, scion of a family that had ruled the oil-rich central African nation since 1967