World Current Affairs MCQs with Explanations

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Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.

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One of the most significant breakthroughs is in the treatment of blindness, with researchers from Monash University, Australia, developing the world’s first bionic eye.

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Venezuela is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.

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Ambassador Rafael Mariano Grossi of Argentina is set to take office as IAEA Director General in early December. In a meeting open to representatives of all IAEA Member States, the 35-nation Board of Governors appointed by acclamation Mr Grossi as Director General, to serve for four years from 3rd December 2019. The new Director General will be the IAEA’s sixth head since it was founded in 1957. Yukiya Amano of Japan was the IAEA’s fifth Director General. He was first appointed to the office effective December 2009 and reappointed in 2013 and 2017. He passed away on 18 July 2019. He followed Mohamed ElBaradei, IAEA Director General from 1997 to 2009; Hans Blix, IAEA Director General from 1981 to 1997; Sigvard Eklund, IAEA Director General from 1961 to 1981; and Sterling Cole, IAEA Director General from 1957 to 1961.

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Akhundzada was appointed as Taliban supreme leader on 25 May 2016, succeeding Mansour, who had been killed in a US drone strike.

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China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue was established in 2017 in Beijing as a means of trilateral cooperation on issues of mutual interest and with a particular focus on cooperation in economic development and peace and security.

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China on Friday commissioned its first nuclear-powered “artificial sun”. The China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said the HL-2M Tokamak “artificial sun” uses a “powerful magnetic field to fuse hot plasma and can reach temperatures of over 150 million degrees Celsius”, Xinhua news agency reported.

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Emmanuel Macron is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.

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Afghanistan is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.