Which country has taken over the UN Security Council Presidency for the month of February 2022?
- A. Russia
- B. Japan
- C. Pakistan
- D. New York
Correct Answer: A. Russia
Correct Answer: A. Italy
Italy hosted Mediterranean leaders in Rome on 23 July 2023 at a conference aimed at extending an EU-backed deal with Tunisia to curb the arrival of migrants on European shores. The summit convened by Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni laid the foundations for a fund to finance investment projects and support border controls, with a medium-term aim of better regulating migratory flows.
Correct Answer: A. 27 September
World Tourism Day (WTD) is celebrated annually on 27 September. Its motivation is to encourage awareness among the global community of the significance of the travel industry and its social, cultural, political and monetary value. The World Tourism Day 2023 theme is “Tourism and Green Investments”
Correct Answer: D. China
Kazakhstan, the world`s top uranium producer, announced on Thursday a long-term deal to supply the radioactive metal to China, as the resource-rich Central Asian country step up cooperation with Beijing. The deal was struck between the national atomic company, Kazatomprom, and China National Uranium Corporation Limit to deliver an unspecified amount of natural uranium concentrate, which is used in the nuclear fuel cycle
Correct Answer: C. India
According to the Orbital Debris Quarterly News, published by a NASA Office, there are 25,182 pieces of space debris (of sizes larger than 10 cm) in the lower earth orbits (within 2,000 km of earth’s surface). Out of these, the debris from Indian space assets is only 114, the lowest among major space-faring nations and around the same level as in 2018. India has 103 active and defunct spacecraft that are also in orbit, against the USA, China, and Russia which have the largest number of active or defunct satellites, as well as space debris, at several thousand.
Correct Answer: B. USA
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.
Correct Answer: D. Italy