Several rockets strike near ______ capital main diplomatic area, on its independence day?
- A. Afghanistan
- B. Turkmenistan
- C. Tajikistan
- D. Serbia
Correct Answer: A. Afghanistan
Several rockets struck Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Tuesday, shaking the main diplomatic district and sending foreign embassies into lockdown, officials and sources said. “Several rockets were fired from two vehicles,” said Tariq Arian, an interior ministry spokesman
Correct Answer: A. Canada
Canada unveiled on 8 June 2022 a national carbon emissions market to help it meet its climate goals by allowing cities, farmers and others to sell credits for CO2 reductions to heavier polluters. Under the system, registered participants can generate one credit for each tonne of emissions they reduce or remove from the atmosphere.
Correct Answer: B. Bulli Bai
A controversial app created on a repository hosting service has triggered outrage on social media after photos of Muslim women were uploaded on it without their consent. The app named ‘Bulli Bai’ was allegedly found auctioning pictures of Muslim women, months after some unidentified persons created a similar app ‘Sulli deals’ where photographs of hundreds of Muslim women, sourced from their social media accounts, were uploaded and auctioned. The app was taken down following outrage on social media.
Correct Answer: C. Spain
Spain’s lower house of Parliament passed a law that allows people over 16 years of age to change their legally registered gender without any medical supervision. Under the law, minors aged 12 or 13 will need a judge’s authorisation to make the change, while those between 14 and 16 will have to be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians. The law also banned conversion therapies, established fines and punishments for attacks on LGBT people.
Correct Answer: B. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has becomed the first Black woman ever to appear on a US quarter, after a coin featuring the late poet and activist’s image went into circulation on 13 January 2022. The quarter features an image of Angelou with her arms uplifted, a bird in flight, and a rising sun behind her, with a portrait of George Washington on the “heads” side. The US Mint said the image of Angelou was “inspired by her poetry and symbolic of the way she lived”. The poet and writer, who died in 2014, was the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in which she wrote about the racial discrimination she experienced growing up.
Correct Answer: D. USA
The United States announced on July 7, 2023, that it will send Ukraine widely-banned cluster munitions as part of a security assistance package, a move Ukraine said would have an extraordinary psycho-emotional impact on occupying Russian force.
Correct Answer: D. France
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by gunmen in 2015, said on September 1, 2020, it was republishing hugely controversial sketches of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to mark this week`s start of the trial of alleged accomplices to the attack.