Best Gk Questions On International Current Affairs Tips You Will Read This Year

•  The United Arab Emirates became the first Arab country to open a nuclear power plant, when the Unit 1 of the Barakah Nuclear Plant in Abu Dhabi, got operational on 31 July 2020

•  Former Guyanese housing minister, Mohamed Irfaan Ali has been named as the President of the He is a member of the opposition People’s Progressive country. party (PPP)

•  Former Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Brigadier (retired) Mark Anthony Phillips has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Guyana.
• The United States Senate has unanimously passed a bill banning the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on government devices.
•  A “state of environmental emergency” has been declared by the island nation of mauritius, as a Japanese bulk carrier “MV Wakashio” ran aground on a reef in Mauritius and began leaking oil into the ocean.

•  Sri Lanka’s former President, Mahinda Rajapaksa took oath as the country’s Prime Minister for the fourth time. 

•  President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko has won his sixth consecutive term in the country’s presidential election.

•  Mohamed Ould Bilal has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Mauritania. 

•  Walter Roger Martos Ruiz has become the new Prime Minister of Peru.  

•  Russia has become the first country to register a coronavirus vaccine “Sputnik V” registered for use. 

•  Prime Minister of Lebanon, Hassan Diab and his entire government has resigned, in the wake of the major blast in Beirut.
•   Malian President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has resigned and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint, plunging a country already facing an insurgency and mass protests deeper into crisis.

•  Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona has been sworn in as the 54th President of Dominican Republic.

• Keith Rowley sworn in as Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for a 2nd consecutive 5-year term. He is from the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM).

• Francisco Pascual Eyegue Obama Asue was reappointed as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea for 3rd consecutive term.

•  The Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC), an independent body set up by the World Health Organization (WHO), has certified the African continent free from wild Polio virus.

•  China has successfully launched 5th Earth observation satellite, Gaofen-9 (05), from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. 

• Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe has announced to step down from the post on 28 August 2020, because of the poor health conditions.