World Current Affairs MCQs January 2022

A team of scientists recently discovered the world’s largest fish breeding area near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea.

Germany is due to take overed the G7 (“Group of Seven”) Presidency on 1 January 2022 and will therefore host the annual meeting of the heads of state and government of the G7 countries.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has vote to appoint Kuwaiti candidate Haitham Al-Ghais as its new secretary-general. He will take up the role from Aug. 1, 2022, for a period of three years. Al-Ghais has previously worked for the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and served as Kuwait’s OPEC Governor from 2017 to June 2021. He will replace Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, a Nigerian representative, when his second term as OPEC secretary-general ends July 2022.

France has ordered the closure of a mosque in the north of the country because of the “radical nature” of its imams preaching, regional authorities said on Tuesday. The mosque in Beauvais, a town of 50,000 people some 100 kilometers north of Paris, will remain shut for six months, according to the prefecture of the Oise region where Beauvais is located. The authorities alleged the sermons there incited hatred, violence and “defended jihad”.

Islamic Finance News (IFN), an arm of RED money Group, Malaysia, has announced the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) as the best central bank of 2021 across the world in promoting Islamic finance. IFN Best Banks Poll is regarded as a prestigious award in the global Islamic finance space. Bank Negara Malaysia stood second, while the Saudi Central Bank secured the third position. SBP has won this award five times in seven years. Previously, SBP was bestowed with this coveted award for the years 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2020.

The All India Sports Council of the Deaf has got approval from the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD) to hosted the first World Deaf T20 Cricket Championship in Kerala from January 10-20, 2023. his championship was planned to be conducted in 2020-21 but due to the sudden outbreak of coronavirus, it was postponed first to 2022 & now fixed for 2023.

TheInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one-third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities between 1933 and 1945 by Nazi Germany. The day remembers the killing of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators

World Leprosy Day (WLD) is observed on the last Sunday of January. In 2022, World Leprosy Day is 30 January. The “United for Dignity” campaign calls for unity in honoring the dignity of people who have experienced leprosy. WHO Goodwill Ambassador for leprosy elimination launched the “Don’t forget leprosy” campaign.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. Collectively, these countries comprise an area of 5,114,162 km2 (1,974,589 sq mi), and in 2015 had an estimated population of over 349 million. Considered one of the pillar regional blocs of the continent-wide African Economic Community (AEC), the stated goal of ECOWAS is to achieve “collective self-sufficiency” for its member states by creating a single large trade bloc by building a full economic and trading union. The union was established on 28 May 1975, with the signing of the Treaty of Lagos, with its stated mission to promote economic integration across the region. A revised version of the treaty was agreed and signed on 24 July 1993 in Cotonou.

An Israeli firm is developing body cameras with facial recognition technology for Israel’s police officer. The technology aims to produce a body-worn camera enabling police to scan crowds and detect suspects in real-time, even if their faces are obscured, and build a database of such identities. The technology is being developed by Yozmot, a strategic planning firm owned by former Israeli army chief of regional strategic planning, Col. (res.) Dany Tirza.

Daniel Ortega was sworn in as the Presidented of the Central American country ‘Nicaragua’ for his fourth consecutive term. The United States and European Union imposed sanctions on several persons in his government after the elections. Ortega’s government has been in power since 2007, after his first stint in power ended in 1990.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander officially open the Ijmuiden Sea Lock, which is claimed to be the largest sea lock in the world. The 500-meter long and 70-meter-wide structure replaces a smaller 100-year-old one at Ijmuiden, a port city connecting the North Sea Canal to the port of Amsterdam. The structure is deep enough that ships will not have to wait for a favorable water level to enter the canal.

Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is marking 50 years of Bloody Sunday, on which British soldiers fired upon a crowd of protesters, killing 14 people. Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin also tweeted that the country is paying tribute to the families of the victims. The violence took place during a march organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.

David Maria Sassoli was an Italian politician and journalist who served as the president of the European Parliament from 3 July 2019 until his death in January 2022. Sassoli was first elected as a member of the European Parliament in 2009. He was 65.

Iran has launch a satellite carrier rocket ‘Simorgh’ bearing three research devices into space, as per the country’s media. ‘Simorgh’ translates to ‘Phoenix’ in the Iran language. The country has launched the devices at an altitude of 470 kilometers (290 miles). The United States unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear deal in May 2018 and re-imposed sanctions against Iran.