World Current Affairs MCQs July 2020

South Korea on 20 July 2020 launched its first-ever military satellite to defend itself against nuclear-armed North Korea. The satellite has been named “ANASIS II” formerly called “KMilSatCom 1”. It was built by Airbus Defence and Space.

On July 24, 2020, China ordered the US to close its consulate in Chengdu (City in China). Ordering the Chengdu consulate to cease operations was a `legitimate and necessary response to the unreasonable measures by the United States`, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.

The United Nations has raised USD 7.7 billion in humanitarian aid for the people affected by war in Syria. Among many countries that donated, Germany provided the single biggest country donation of 1.58 billion euros (USD 1.78 billion.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday 10 July 2020 made the announcement to turns iconic Istanbul museum into a mosque. Built 1,500 years ago as an Orthodox Christian cathedral, Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest in 1453

According to the data, the birth rate was 10.94 per thousand, which was lesser than the previous birth rate of 12.43 per thousand, in 2017. The country’s birth rate fell to the lowest, since 1949. As China has a rapidly growing aging population, it allowed urban couples to give birth to two children, against the one-child policy which was in effect.

After anti-virus lockdowns were lifted and factories and stores reopened, China became the first major economy to grow since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, recording an unexpectedly strong 3.2 percent expansion in the latest quarter reported on July 16, 2020, for the three months ending in June.