Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Sep 28 2023) for CSS

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September 28, 2023: International Current Affairs MCQs News

6. Iran launches military satellite into orbit

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards successfully launched a third military satellite into orbit on Wednesday, state media reported, citing Minister of Communications Issa Zarepour. The Noor 3 imaging satellite orbits at an altitude of 450 kilometres above the earth’s surface and was launched by the three-stage Qased, or messenger carrier, state media said, which launched its predecessor Noor 2 in 2022.
The US military says the same long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit could also allow Tehran to launch longer-range weapons, possibly including nuclear warheads

7. Canadian leader `convinced` of Modi govt`s role in Sikh activist`s murder

As the US continued to press New Delhi to cooperate with a Canadian investigation into the murder of a Sikh separatist leader, India has said it is open to looking into any `specific` or `relevant` information on the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
But Jagmeet Singh, leader of Canada`s New Democratic Party (NDP) who was recently given a classified government briefing on the matter has said he is convinced that the Modi government was involved in the killing on Canadian soil

8. Indonesia bans goods transactions on social media platforms

Indonesia has banned goods transactions on social media platforms in a new regulation, its trade minister said on Wednesday, as Jakarta aims to rein in direct sales on major platforms it says are harming millions of small businesses.
Calls have grown in recent months for a regulation governing social media and e-commerce, with offline sellers seeing their livelihoods threatened by the sale of cheaper products on TikTok Shop and other platforms

9. Youth bring climate case to Europe rights court

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday began hearing a case brought by six Portuguese youths against 32 nations for not doing enough to stop global warming, the latest bid to secure climate justice through the courts.
`The case concerns… the impact of climate change, said Siofra O`Leary, president of the Strasbourg-based court`s 17-judge Grand Chamber, `resulting among other things in heatwaves and wildfires affecting the applicants` lives and health`

10. Soldier in US custody after expulsion from N. Korea

US soldier Travis King is in American custody after leaving North Korea, where he had been held since running across the border from the South in July, the White House said on Wednesday.
North Korea`s state news agency had made a surprise announcement just hours earlier that Pyongyang had decided to expel King, who crossed over during a sightseeing tour of the Demilitarised Zone