World leaders at UN will not come to ______ this September for the annual session of UN General Assembly due to the COVID-19.
- A. New Jersey
- B. New York
- C. Mozambique
- D. Baghdad
Correct Answer: B. New York
For the first time in United Nations’ 75-year history, world leaders will not come to New York this September for the annual session of UN General Assembly due to the coronavirus pandemic, the president of the 193-member assembly Tijjani Muhammad-Bande has said.
Correct Answer: C. India
The 2023 G20 New Delhi summit is the upcoming eighteenth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), a summit scheduled to take place in International Exhibition-Convention Centre (IECC), Pragati Maidan, New Delhi in 2023. It will be the first-ever G20 summit to be held in India as well as in South Asia.
Correct Answer: A. 30 May 2023
China has launch Shenzhou-16 spacecraft taking three new astronauts to its space station. The spacecraft left from the Jiuquan launch center in the Gobi Desert on a Long March 2F rocket on 30 May 2023. The crew will overlap briefly with the three astronaut currently on board the Tiangong station, who will return to Earth after completing their six-month mission.
Correct Answer: A. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Presidential election were held in Turkey in May 2023 alongside parliamentary election to elect a president for a term of five years. It marks the first time a Turkish presidential election has gone to a run-off. Erdoğan was re-elected in the second round with 52.2% of the vote.
Correct Answer: A. China
China has released a new comprehensive geologic map of the moon, the “most detailed” to date, which is expected to make a vital contribution to scientific research, exploration and landing site selection on the Earth’s only natural satellite.
Correct Answer: A. Adil Abdul-Mahdi
Adil Abdul-Mahdi is an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq from October 2018 until May 2020. Now Iraq’s new Prime Minister is Mustafa al-Kadhimi who assumed office on 6 May after the country’s parliament approved a new government. Adil Abdul-Mahdi formerly served as a finance minister in the Interim government and Oil Minister from 2014 to 2016.
Correct Answer: A. July 03, 2023
On July 3, 2023, an organisation name Rights Group said that the West Asian nation of Iran had execut 354 people in the first six months of 2023, adding that the pace of executions was much higher as compared to a figure in 2022. In early 2023, the IHR reported that Iran had carried out 582 executions in 2022, the highest since 2015. Iran is the world’s second-largest executioner and human rights violator after China for which for which no data is available, Amnesty International said.