"What in the World?" - Week of June 11-17, 2017

Twin terrorist attacks in Teheran targeted the Iranian parliament, as well as THIS sacred site.

Clotilde Nonnez, a 56-year old yoga teacher in Paris, is suing the French government for failing to protect her from what?

A called election in the UK brought a stunning upset as British voters deprived Theresa May's Conservative Party of the seats it needed to have an absolute majority in parliament. Now Mrs. May is busy hammering out a "confidence and supply" deal with THIS party, to ensure her party can remain in power.

Catalonia announced this weekend that it will hold a referendum on October 1 to decide whether or not to leave Spain. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced this week that it had doubled the number of mixed-gender events planned for the summer 2020 games. The IOC has also added 5 new sports, including surfing and skateboarding, to the 2020 games, which will be held in THIS city.

The coastal town of Knysna, located along South Africa's famed Garden Route, has seen 10,000 of its inhabitants evacuated due to THIS natural disaster.

Turkey has arrested the chief of THIS human rights organization's Turkish office for alleged connections to the 2016 coup.

Officials from THIS Horn of Africa nation announced that they would run out of emergency food aid for 7.8 million people by the end of June, further escalating what the UN has called, "the worst humanitarian crisis since 1945."

The extradition of Roxana Baldetti, former Vice-President of THIS Central American nation, is currently being sought for allegations that she conspired to smuggle cocaine into the US.

In what the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs called an epidemic of "unprecedented scale," the number of cases of THIS disease just passed 100,000 in Yemen.