When North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) extends the tenure of its existing Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg until 1 October 2024 on?
- A. July 08, 2023
- B. July 04, 2023
- C. July 06, 2023
- D. July 09, 2023
Correct Answer: B. July 04, 2023
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will stay in office for another year, the 31-nation military alliance decided on Tuesday (4 July 2023). U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts had been due to name a successor when they meet in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11-12. But the world’s biggest security organization makes decisions by consensus, and no agreement could be found on a new candidate. “With his steady leadership, experience, and judgement, Secretary General Stoltenberg has brought our Alliance through the most significant challenges in European security since World War II,” Biden said in a statement.
Correct Answer: A. 5 May 2022
The 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election was held on 5 May 2022. It electe 90 members to the Northern Ireland Assembly. It was the seventh assembly election since the establishment of the assembly in 1998. Sinn Féin became the largest party, marking the first time an Irish nationalist/republican party won the most seats in an election in Northern Ireland and has the right to nominate Northern Ireland’s first nationalist First Minister.
Correct Answer: A. November 16, 2020
Correct Answer: D. 17 July 2023
Russia said Monday it was suspending its participation in a crucial deal that allowed the export of Ukrainian grain, once again raising fears over global food supplies and scuppering a rare diplomatic breakthrough to emerge from Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The agreement, brokered by Turkey and the United Nations in July 2022, was officially set to expire on 17 July 2023.
Correct Answer: A. Two
The first audio recordings from Mars revealed a quiet planet with occasional gusts of wind where two different speeds of sound would have a strange delayed effect on hearing, scientists said on April 1, 2022. After NASA`s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February last year, its two microphones started recording, allowing scientists to hear what it is like on the Red Planet for the first time.
Correct Answer: C. India
The ‘Climate Transparency Report 2022’ was released by a partnership of climate analysis organizations in G20 countries. As per the report, the countries most affected by income losses in these sectors were India (5.4% of GDP), Indonesia (1.6% of GDP), and Saudi Arabia (1% of GDP). Losses to earnings from heat-related labor capacity reduction were the highest in services, manufacturing, agriculture, and construction.
Correct Answer: A. Morocco
Morocco’s government said that 2,000 died and 2,421 were injured after a powerful quake/ The US Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 when it hit at 11:11 pm, with shaking that lasted several seconds. Morocco’s National Seismic Monitoring and Alert Network measured it at 7 on the Richter scale. The US agency reported a magnitude 4.9 aftershock hit 19 minutes later.