Hong Kong is to grant a site on the western Kowloon peninsula, close to the high-speed railway to the mainland, to Beijing’s national security office for its permanent base in the city. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Kowloon Peninsula is a peninsula that forms the southern part of the main landmass in the territory […]
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US President Joe Biden is preparing to formally acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire that occurred more than a century ago. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 While Turkey disagrees, the consensus among historians is that during the Armenian Genocide, between 1915 to
China’s President Xi Jinping said global rules cannot be imposed “by one or a few countries” and attempts to “decouple” would not benefit any nation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Headquartered in China, the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) is an international organization jointly initiated by 29 member states. BFA holds its annual conference in
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Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno passed away from wounds sustained in battle after three decades in power, the Army said, opening a period of uncertainty in a country that is a key strategic ally of the West. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Idriss Déby Itno (1952 – 2021) was a Chadian politician and military officer
Russia’s space agency hoped to launch its own orbital station in 2025 as Moscow considers withdrawing from the International Space Station programme to go it alone. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said work had begun on the first module of a new station, after officials warned that Russia was considering pulling
Union Commerce Secretary recently reported that India does not see any logic in the United States putting it on a monitoring list of currency manipulators. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The U.S. Treasury Department had recently retained India on a watchlist for currency manipulators submitted to the U.S. Congress, citing higher dollar purchases (close to
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The Kremlin retaliated by announcing it would send back 20 Czech diplomats, exacerbating relations that have already been strained in recent times. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Prague had accused Russian embassy officials of being intelligence operatives, and said that it suspected them of being involved in a 2014 explosion at an arms depot that
Raul Castro is resigning as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by he and his brother Fidel Castro that began with the 1959 revolution. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 As Raul Castro, 89, enters retirement, he handed the all-powerful position of first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba to
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The Council approved conclusions on an EU strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, setting out the EU’s intention to reinforce its strategic focus, presence and actions in this region of prime strategic importance for EU interests. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The aim is to contribute to regional stability, security, prosperity and sustainable development, at
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China has asked Japan to take back its “wrong decision” to release more than 1 million tonnes of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 3.5-square-kilometre site in the towns of Ōkuma
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