World Current Affairs MCQs June 2022

Pakistan is manufacturing the football Al Rihla for the FIFA World cup 2022 to be held in Doha, Qatar. Al Rihla is the name given to the 2022 world cup’s official match ball, which means The Journey in Arabic. Adidas has been manufacturing the official FIFA World Cup match balls for the last 14 FIFA World Cups since 1982. Since then, Adidas is manufacturing official match balls in Pakistan.

Saudi Arabia on June 4, 2022, welcomed its first batch of Haj pilgrims since before the coronavirus pandemic, which prompted authorities to sharply restrict the annual ritual. The group from Indonesia landed in the city of Madina and was set to travel south to Makkah in the coming weeks to prepare for the Hajj next month, state media reported.

World Day Against Child Labour is marked every year on 12 June across the world. The day aims to raise awareness about the exploitation of children who are engaged in child labour. The International Labour Organization (ILO) declared the World Day Against Child Labour in the year 2002. The theme for this year is “Universal Social Protection to End Child Labour”

The initial inductees are six members of the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame – Hanif Mohammad, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, and Zaheer Abbas – who will be joined by two new members each year selected by an independent Voting Panel (process below).

Australia’s highest court has made a landmark ruling that will curtail the Government’s citizenship Powers and how governments can deal with extremists. The High Court restored Delil Alexander’s Australian citizenship that was illegally cancelled in July last year by the then-Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews. Delil Alexander was suspected to be Islamic State group fighter.

The street in front of Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Washington was renamed on 15 June 2022 as Jamal Khashoggi Way as activists vowed never to forget the slain journalist despite President Joe Biden’s planned visit to the kingdom. The capital’s local government changed signs on one block in front of the imposing embassy to read “Jamal Khashoggi Way” in honor of the Saudi dissident who was strangled to death and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. The street will serve as “a constant reminder, a memorial to Jamal Khashoggi’s memory that cannot be covered up,” said Phil Mendelson, president of the District of Columbia Council that voted unanimously to rename the stretch of New Hampshire Avenue which also lies along with the storied Watergate building.

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2022 took place on 20-25 June 2022, in Kigali, Rwanda. Commonwealth leaders traveled to Rwanda to reaffirm their common values and agree on actions and policies to improve the lives of all their citizens.

Ketanji Brown Jackson is an American judged who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The first African American woman to serve on the court, Jackson was sworn in on June 30, 2022, having been confirmed by the United States Senate on April 7, 2022.

Israel has signed a free trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates, its first big trade pact with an Arab state. The agreement, which aimed at boosting trade between the two Middle Eastern nations, would encourage more Israeli companies to set up offices in the UAE, particularly in Dubai.

Lebanese lawmakers re-elected Nabih Berri as parliament speaker on 31 May 2022 for a seventh consecutive term, cementing his reputation as an immovable centerpiece of the country`s political landscape.

Sri Lankan cabinet passed the 21st Amendment to the Constitution to empower Parliament over the executive president. The 21st Amendment is expected to dissolve the section, which gives unfettered powers to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after abolishing the 19th Amendment which will strengthen Parliament. It also includes reforms including barring dual citizens from contesting elections to hold public office.

US President Biden and dozens of other world leaders gathered at Los Angeles for the ninth Summit of the Americas. The Summit of the Americas is organised about every three years and brings together representatives from countries in the Western region to tackle issues such as immigration, trade and poverty. Former President Bill Clinton hosted the first summit in 1994 in Miami. The Ninth Summit of the Americas was a international conference held in Los Angeles, United States, from June 6 to 10, 2022. The theme was “Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Future”.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently signed deals worth 1.3 billion Canadian dollars to settle a Blackfoot tribe’s land claim. The 1.3 billion Canadian dollars (USD 1 billion) settlement is one of the largest agreements of its kind reached in Canada. It aims to correct the mistakes dating back over a century when the Canadian government broke promises and wrongfully took half of Siksika Nation’s reserve land to sell to settlers.

Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego is a Colombian economist, politician, former guerrilla fighter, senator, and the president-elect of Colombia. Ivan Duque will be succeeded by Gustavo Petro on 7 August 2022, after Petro ended up winning the runoff round in the 2022 Colombian presidential election.

Iran disconnected some of the United Nations nuclear watchdog`s monitoring cameras on June 8, 2022, the country`s Atomic Energy Organisation said in a statement after Western nations accused Tehran of noncooperation. The move was announced after a resolution submitted by Britain, France, Germany and the United States to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to censure Iran, the first since June 2020 when a similar motion was adopted. Iran said the disconnected cameras had been operating beyond the safeguard agreement between Tehran and the IAEA.