President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir has dissolved Parliament, opening the way for lawmakers from opposing sides of the country’s civil war to be appointed under a 2018 peace accord. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The setting up of a new legislative body was part of an accord signed in September 2018 between Mr. Kiir […]
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German intelligence services reviled that they would widen their surveillance of Islamophobic protest movement Pegida in its home state of Saxony, as the group had become “extremist” and “anti-constitutional”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 While Pegida had previously attracted “heterogeneous” support and taken “moderate” positions, it had developed “an increasingly right-wing extremist orientation”, Saxony’s domestic
The Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine of China has been approved by the World Health Organization for emergency use. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The UN health agency signed off on the two-dose vaccine, which is already being deployed in dozens of countries around the world. The WHO has already given emergency use listing to the vaccines
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China has warned Bangladesh against joining the US-led Quad alliance. According to China, Dhaka’s participation in the anti-Beijing “club” would result in “substantial damage” to bilateral relations. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Quad is a “small group of elites” working against China. Initiated in 2007, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, Quad for short, is an informal
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A cyber-criminal gang that took a major US fuel pipeline offline over the weekend has acknowledged the incident in a public statement. The US issued emergency legislation after Colonial Pipeline was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It was hit by what Colonial called a ransomware attack, in which hackers typically
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The debris came from the upper stage of a Long March 5B rocket– China’s largest– that had been launched into space on April 29 for putting into orbit a core module of the new Tianhe space station, which is expected to become operational in 2022. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 When a rocket is launched,
A new coronavirus treatment being developed in Israel’s Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Medical Center has successfully completed phase one trials and appears to have helped numerous moderate-to-serious cases of COVID-19 quickly recover from the disease. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Hailing the treatment as a huge breakthrough, the hospital has said that the EXO-CD24 substance had
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Pakistan recently expressed serious concern over the illegal possession of a large quantity of uranium by two unauthorized persons in India and pointed to gaps in state control mechanisms there. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Uranium is a chemical element with the symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the
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The United States has set up to join a New Zealand-led global campaign to stamp out violent extremism online, the White House said, making a policy change two years after the administration of former President Donald Trump declined to participate. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Christchurch Call is named after the New Zealand city
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Philippine Foreign Minister Teodoro Locsin on April 3 launched an unusually aggressive tweet blasting China for its activities in the South China Sea. The expletive-laced tweet marked the latest exchange in a war of words amid the ongoing tensions between the two countries. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Philippines, officially the Republic of the
