#international ASEAN: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration).
HQ: Jakarta, Indonesia.
#mnemonic: TV CLIP of MBBS:
Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Burma (Myanmar), Brunei, Singapore.

#international Acatenango Volcano

#polity CVC: Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is an apex Indian governmental body created in 1964 to address governmental corruption. In 2003, the Parliament enacted a law conferring statutory status on the CVC.

#polity CVC

#international Haiti Gang Violence; Port-Au-Prince

#defence Malabar Naval Exercise: Australia, India, Japan, USA.

#history Basrur; trading city, KN. Historic port town. his travel account Moroccan Traveller Ibn Batuta mentioned it as Abu-Sarur. It also came under Portuguese control who built Santa Luzia there.

#history guilds like Uhayadesi, Nanadesi participated

#international GCC: HQ: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Peninsula shield arm is the military arm of GCC. Member states; #mnemonic SUKO-QB;
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain.
GCC members and Yemen are also members of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA).

#upscpyq GCC

#international Arab Peace Initiative; it is also known as Saudi Initiative; is a 10-sentence proposal an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict that was endorsed by the Arab League in 2002 at the Beirut Summit.

#upscpyq Arab peace initiative hasn’t been signed by Israel. Statement 1 is correct The first Arab country to officially recognize and establish diplomatic relations with Israel was Egypt. The historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed in 1979 at Camp David, leading to diplomatic relations and normalization of ties between the two nations.
Another Arab country that has established diplomatic relations with Israel is Jordan. In 2020, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain signed agreements with Israel to establish full diplomatic relations, known as the Abraham Accords.

#International Members of OPEC: #mnemonic KIVIS AUR ANGEL 
Kuwait, Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, UAE, Republic of Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Libya.

Members of OPEC+ :
MBBS MARKOS
Mexico, Bahrain, Brunei, South Sudan, Malaysia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Oman, Sudan.

Observer States; Canada, Egypt, Norway, Oman.
Established in 1960 in Baghdad, Iraq.
HQ: Vienna, Austria.

#technology Acoustic Side Channel Attacks; AI is being used to crack passwords while analysis of keyboard strokes.

#environment yellow-legged hornets; invasive and poses a threat to honeybees.

#science Magnetars; A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field. It has been suggested that magnetars are the source of fast radio bursts (FRBs).

#environment Hangul or Kashmir Stag. In Kashmir, it is found primarily in Dachigam National Park. It is Critically Endangered. Also found in other places like Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary, J&K.

#defence Indian Naval Ship INS Trikand received a warm welcome upon its arrival at Bandar Abbas, the port city of Iran recently.

#technology Artemis 2: NASA. It will be the first mission to carry humans to the moon's vicinity since 1972. It will use the huge Space Launch System (SLS) mega-rocket and Orion spacecraft to launch the crew on the lunar flyby mission. It aims to ‘land the first woman and first person of colour on the Moon’ explore the lunar surface.

#environment The first such agreement involved Bolivia’s debt exchange for conservation of the Amazon Basin. Recently, Gabon announced it.

#DRC Cholera: A bacterial disease causing severe diarrhoea and dehydration, usually spread in water.
Currently, there are three WHO pre-qualified oral cholera vaccines (OCV), Dukoral, Shanchol, and Euvichol-Plus.