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A. June 3-13, 2024
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The sixtieth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SB 60) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place at the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB) in Bonn, Germany, from 3 to 13 June 2024.
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B. 2
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The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) secured a spot on the list at number 87 and 95 respectively. 23 other Pakistani universities also make it to top 500 ranking list.
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A. France
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail for corruption Sarkozy found guilty of corruption and influence peddling but is unlikely to spend time in prison. When the verdict came, it reduced the Paris court to a stunned silence: Nicolas Sarkozy was guilty of corruption and influence peddling, and sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended. France’s president from 2007 to 2012 had played an “active role” in forging a “corruption pact” with his lawyer and a senior magistrate to obtain information on a separate investigation into political donations, the leading judge declared, and there was “serious and concurring evidence” of collaboration between the three men to break the law.
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B. USA
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C. Berlin
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B. Turkiye
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Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkey will join in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
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C. Italy
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B. Australia
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C. Mahathir Muhammad
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D. 20 years
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The last US and Nato forces have left Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase, the centre of the war against militants for some 20 years, US officials say. The pull-out could signal that the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan is imminent. President Joe Biden has said US forces will be gone by 11 September.