In December 2022, France and Spain have agreed to build hydrogen pipeline at a cost of $______ billion.
- A. $2.1 billion
- B. $2.4 billion
- C. $2.6 billion
- D. $2.9 billion
Correct Answer: C. $2.6 billion
France and Spain have agreed in principle to build an underwater pipeline between Marseille and Barcelona at a cost of $2.6 billion to carry green hydrogen, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on December 9, 2022, adding he hoped the European Union would partly fund the project.
Correct Answer: C. 17 January 2022
Three people, including two Indian nationals and one Pakistani national, were kill as three fuel trucks exploded and a fire broke out near Abu Dhabi airport on Monday in what Yemen’s Houthis claimed was an attack deep inside the United Arab Emirates. Three people were killed and six wounded when the three fuel tanker trucks exploded in the industrial Musaffah area near storage facilities of oil firm ADNOC, state news agency WAM said.
Correct Answer: B. July 13, 2023
Ukraine has received cluster munitions, a military spokesperson said on July 13, 2023, less than a week after the United States announced it would transfer such munitions to Ukrainian forces. Valeryi Shershen, a spokesman for the Tavria military command in southern Ukraine, confirmed a CNN report citing the commander of the Tavria forces as saying Ukraine had just receive cluster munitions but had not used them yet.
Correct Answer: B. August 17 & 18, 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening the Traditional Medicine Global Summit on 17 and 18 August 2023 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Co-host by the Government of India, the Summit has explore the role of traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine in addressing pressing health challenges and driving progress in global health and sustainable development. High-level participants have included the WHO Director-General and Regional Director G20 health ministers and high-level invitees from countries across WHO’s six regions. Scientists, practitioner of traditional medicine, health workers and members of the civil society organization had also take part.
Correct Answer: C. Japan
North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on October 4, 2022, prompting Tokyo to activate its missile alert system and issue a rare warning for people to take shelter. The latest launch which the US branded reckless and dangerous comes in a record year of sanctions-busting weapons tests by North Korea, which recently revised its laws to declare itself an irreversible nuclear power.
Correct Answer: A. Sri Lanka
Bankrupt Sri Lanka will drastically slash its military, the defence ministry said on January 13, 2023, as the government works to overhaul its shambolic finances after an unprecedented economic crisis. The island nation is still reeling from months of food and fuel shortages that made daily life a misery for its 22 million people last year. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has hiked taxes and imposed harsh spending cuts to smooth the passage of an expected International Monetary Fund bailout following a government debt default. Sri Lanka`s armed forces are next on the chopping block, with the defence ministry announcing it would retire 65,000 soldiers from its 200,000-strong army over the year.
Correct Answer: B. China
The fourth World Conference on Women was convened by the United Nations in September 1995 in Beijing, China. The 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women was recently organized.