World Current Affairs MCQs May 2022

NASA’s InSight Mars lander has detecte the largest ever monster quake on the Red Planet. The quake — estimated to be of magnitude 5 — occurred on May 4, which is also the 1,222nd Martian day (or sol) of the mission, NASA said in a statement.

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland is scheduled from May 22nd to 26th 2022. The meeting was originally scheduled for January 17-21st but was postponed due to the outbreak of the Omicron variant. The theme for WEF annual Meeting 2022 is ‘working Together, restoring Trust’. This year’s WEF meeting will be the first global in-person leadership event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nobuo Kishi is a Japanese politician who currently serves as Minister of Defense since September 2020. He is serving in the House of Representatives as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is a younger brother of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and a grandson of former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi.

The 2022 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, the 67th season of Europe’s premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 30th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs’ Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It was played at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, on 28 May 2022, between English club Liverpool and Spanish club Real Madrid. Real Madrid won the match 1–0 via a 59th-minute goal from Vinícius Júnior for a record-extending 14th title, and their 5th in nine years

An ongoing outbreak of monkeypox was confirm on 6 May 2022, beginning with a British resident who, after travelling to Nigeria (where the disease is endemic), presented symptoms consistent with monkeypox on 29 April 2022. The resident returned to the United Kingdom on 4 May, creating the country’s index case of the outbreak.

Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan is an American political advisor who currently serves as the United States National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden. On November 23, 2020, President-elect Biden announced that Sullivan would be appointed as his national security advisor. He took office on January 20, 2021.

Katalin Éva Novák is a Hungarian politician serving as the current president of Hungary, having been elected in the 2022 presidential election. Novák is the first woman to hold the presidency, as well as the youngest president in the history of Hungary, elected at the age of 44. She assumed office on 10 May 2022.

President Emmanuel Macron on May 16, 2022, named Labour Minister Elisabeth Borne as his new prime minister, the first woman to head the French government in over 30 years, the Elysee said in a statement. Outgoing French Prime Minister Jean Castex earlier handed his resignation to the president, part of a widely expected reshuffle to make way for a new government in the wake of Macron`s re-election in April.

The Jordanian capital will host the 115th session of the Council of Members on 8 June 2022. The 19 members of the IOC, representing 44 countries, that signed the International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives 2015 will meet under the chair of Jordan’s Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Khaled Hanifet, whose country holds the rotating chair of the IOC in 2022.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the first in-person World Health Assembly (WHA) began in Geneva on May 22, 2022. The Pakistani delegation is being led by federal Minister for Health Abdul Qadir Patel. The delegation will share the vision Health for Peace and Peace for Health with the participants of the assembly. According to a statement, issued by the Ministry of National Health Services, the 75th WHA is being attended by representatives of 194 countries. The Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland.

Tafheen Sharif of Pakistani origin has been elected the first Muslim woman deputy mayor of Tameside in the UK. Tafheen, who is a member of the Labour party, was also named the youngest councillor in 2012. She has also served as deputy police commissioner of Bedfordshire in the past. Tafheen has been engaged in political activities from the time when she was a student. She belongs to Azad Kashmir in Pakistan. After being elected the deputy mayor, she said the Kashmir dispute needed a serious solution.

Mohammed Al-Jadaan is a commercial lawyer and co-founder of Al-Jadaan and Partners Law Firm who has served as Saudi Arabia’s minister of finance since November 2016 and concurrently as acting minister of economy and planning since March 2020.

McDonald’s has said it will permanently leave Russia after more than 30 years and has started to sell its restaurants. The move comes after it temporarily closed its 850 outlets in March 2022. The fast-food giant said it made the decision because of the “humanitarian crisis” and “unpredictable operating environment” caused by the Ukraine war. The opening of McDonald’s first restaurant in Moscow in 1990 came to symbolize a thaw in Cold War tensions

Spain`s cabinet on May 17, 2022, approved a bill that grants paid medical leave for women who suffer from severe period pain, in what would be a first in Europe. The bill entitles workers experiencing period pain to as much time off as they need, with the state social security system, not employers picking up the tab for the sick leave. As with paid leave for other health reasons, a doctor must approve the temporary medical incapacity.