World Current Affairs MCQs February 2022

Israel becomes the first-ever country to allow drone flights in civilian airspace. The certification was issued to the Hermes Starliner unmanned system by the Israeli Civil Aviation Authority and was manufactured and developed by Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense electronics company.

Dutch speed skater Ireen Wust has become the first person to win a gold medal in an individual event at five different Olympics after retaining her 1500 meters title in Beijing on 7 February 2022. She won her first gold medal at the 2006 Turin Olympics.

World Wetlands Day is observed on February 2 every year to raise awareness about their importance and the need to preserve them. On this day, the Convention on Wetlands was adopted in 1971. World Wetlands Day 2022 is observed as a United Nations International Day for the first time. The theme of World Wetlands Day this year is ‘Wetlands Action for People and Nature’.

Two Oil Giants- France’s Total Energies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) signed a USD 10 million deal to develop Uganda’s energy resources and build a Regional oil pipeline. The project aims to exploit the crude oil reserves at Lake Albert, a 160-kilometer natural border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

stanbul Airport Named Europe’s Busiest Airport In 2021 With Almost 37 Million Passengers. The annual report of Airports Council International (ACI) Europe suggests that Istanbul Airport is named the busiest airport in Europe in the year 2021, with almost 37 million passengers. As per the reports of Sputnik, Istanbul airport welcomed 36,988,563 passengers in 2021, followed by Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport with 30,943,456 passengers, Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport with 26,201,698 passengers, and Amsterdam-Schiphol and Moscow-Domodedovo making in the top five.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed two “megaflashes” of lightning, which set new world records for both length and duration, in North and South America. The record-breaking lightning bolt stretched 768 kilometers (477.2 miles) across parts of the southern US on April 29, 2020, the organization said in a statement.

The largest plane in the world — Ukraine’s Antonov-225 cargo plane — was destroyed by Russian strikes outside Kyiv on the fourth day of Moscow’s invasion, Ukraine’s state-owned Ukroboronprom group said 27 February 2022. “Russian invaders destroyed the flagship of the Ukrainian aviation, the AN-225” at the Antonov airport in Gostomel near Kyiv, the group said in a statement. The aircraft was unique to the world, at 84 meters long (276 feet) it could transport up to 250 tons (551,000 pounds) of cargo at a speed of up to 850 kilometers per hour (528 mph). It had been named “Mriya,” which means “dream” in Ukrainian.

Portuguese star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has set another record as his Instagram followers reached the 400 million mark, making him the first person ever to reach the milestone, Mail Online reported.

Fiction writer and former lawmaker Bushra Rehman passed away on February 7, 2022. Bushra Rehman was born in Bahawalpur in 1944. She did her MA in Journalism from Punjab University. She was elected to the Punjab Assembly on a reserved seat for women in 1985 and then the 1990 elections. She served as an MNA on a seat reserved for women in 2002 and 2008.

The Minsk agreements were a series of international agreements which sought to end a war in the Donbas region of Ukraine . The first agreement, known as the Minsk Protocol,

Italian President Sergio Mattarella has been elected to a second term in the recent round of elections. Mattarella was reconfirmed with a broad majority, in the voting done by lawmakers and regional representatives. The 80-year old Jurist-Academic has been serving as the country’s President since 2015.

US President Joe Biden designated Qatar a major non-NATO ally, a largely symbolic honor but one that was meant to convey his administration’s gratitude for the tiny Persian Gulf nation’s assistance with evacuations from Afghanistan and in ending last year’s Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Biden announced the designation during a meeting with the ruling leader of Qatar at the White House. It comes as he looks for the gas-rich nation to step up again to help the West as it faces the prospect of a European energy crunch if Russia invades Ukraine

The Platinum Jubilee falls on Sunday, February 6, the date the Queen acceded to the throne on the death of her father, George VI, in 1952. The Coronation of Elizabeth II took place on June 2, 1953, at Westminster Abbey in London.

The heads of state or the government of the member states of the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) met for the sixth European Union – African Union summit in Brussels on 17 and 18 February 2022.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has claimed that “almost half” of the parliamentarians in India’s Lok Sabha — the lower house of parliament — have criminal charges against them, prompting New Delhi to summon the country’s ambassador to explain the remarks, a British wire service reported. “Nehru’s India has become one where … almost half the MPs in the Lok Sabha have criminal charges pending against them, including charges of rape and murder,” Lee said. Lee made the comment in Singapore’s parliament on 16 February 2022 during a debate