Leading scientists and medical experts are calling for the pardon of convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg after a recent study showed that her victims four of her children may have died of natural causes. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Folbigg was convicted in 2003 for smothering her children to death as infants between 1990 and […]
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Pope Francis has met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior leaders in Shia Islam, in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf to deliver a message of peaceful coexistence, urging Muslims to embrace Iraq’s long-beleaguered Christian minority. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The meeting, on the second day of the first-ever papal visit
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Sri Lanka will develop the West Container Terminal (WCT) at the Colombo Port along with India and Japan. The decision comes a month after the Rajapaksa government ejected the two partners from a 2019 tripartite agreement to jointly develop the East Container Terminal (ECT), citing resistance to “foreign involvement”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 While
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The Indian Air Force is participating for the first time in Exercise Desert Flag along with air forces of United Arab Emirates, United States of America, France, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Bahrain. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Exercise Desert Flag is an annual multi-national large force employment warfare exercise hosted by the United Arab
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A section of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has signalled its opposition to changing a law that forces married couples to have the same surname. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In the recent past, Japan has witnessed heated debates over the century-old law, with women’s rights activists pitted against conservative figures. Under Japan’s civil
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The United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) has recommended graduation of Bangladesh from the category of Least Developed Country (LDC) as it fulfilled the eligibility criteria in terms of per capita income, human assets and economic and environmental vulnerability. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This is the second consecutive time since 2018 that the
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Global money laundering watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decided to keep Pakistan on its terrorism financing “grey list”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 FATF President Marcus Pleyer said Pakistan must demonstrate in taking action against UN-designated terrorists and their associates. It also said once Pakistan completes three unfulfilled tasks, the FATF will verify
On the site of a church torn down by East Germany’s communist rulers, a new place of worship is set to rise that will bring Christians, Jews and Muslims under one roof – and it has already been dubbed a “churmosquagogue”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Called the House of One or, colloquially, Churmosquagogue, it
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Japan’s suicide rate rose in 2020, with 20,919 people taking their lives according to data by the National Police Agency. Most experts believe that the problem of escalating suicides in Japan is tied to the country’s culture of loneliness. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Japan’s ageing population — over 20% of the country’s population is
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Turkey could establish a spaceport in Somalia with a $350 million investment as part of its nascent space program that will cost upward of $1 billion. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced Turkey’s plans to land on the moon by 2023 in a news conference earlier this month during the inauguration
