"What in the World?" - Week of Jan 21-27, 2018

Turkey opened a new front in the Syrian conflict, and potentially worsened already strained relations with the United States by firing on THIS group, fighting in Syria’s Afrin province:

The Saudi-backed group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham

U.S. forces

The Kurdish YPG, or People’s Protection Unit

The U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army

A vote by THIS political party to begin coalition talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) has brought the first sign that four months of political deadlock might be over. There are still several hurdles to be cleared, though, before Mrs. Merkel can begin offering the stability she promised Germany during the September elections.

Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU)

Alternative for Germany (AfD)

Social Democratic Party (SPD)

Free Democratic Part (FDP)

Another infestation of bed bugs on a British Airways flight led THIS country to threaten the airline with sanctions when the blood-sucking vermin were seen crawling on aircraft seats. British Airways holds a monopoly on flights between the UK and the nation in question.

Liberia

Sierra Leone

Ghana

Nigeria

Saudi Arabia ended its 35-year ban on showing movies in public by screening THIS 2017 release:

The Emoji Movie

The Mummy

The Dark Tower

Transformers: The Last Knight

During his trip to Chile, Pope Francis drew ire for doing THIS:

Refusing to meet with leaders of a LGBTQ movement

Celebrating a special mass for anti-immigrant politicians

Refusing to meet with leaders of a movement to ordain women

Celebrating mass with a bishop known to have covered up sexual abuse by priests

In an attack that left 5 people dead and led to a 16-hour siege, four Taliban gunmen attacked a hotel in THIS Afghan city:

Kabul

Kandahar

Jalalabad

Herat

Developer of the lighter, less sauce-dependent “nouvelle cuisine,” and founder of the competition that’s come to be known as the Olympics of the culinary world, THIS French chef died at age 91:

Jacques Pépin

Daniel Boulud

Alain Passard

Paul Bocuse

Brexit dealt yet another blow to the UK when the European Union decided to move the Galileo Security Surveillance Centre—responsible for monitoring satellites that control information for phones, cars, planes, trains, and emergency services—to THIS city:

Paris

Hamburg

Madrid

Rome

If conditions do not change drastically, Capetown is 90 days from running out of THIS:

Money to pay public workers’ salaries

Fuel for public transportation

Energy reserves

Water

Ex-CIA officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee was arrested this week, ending an intense investigation that started in 2012. Mr. Lee is suspected of having done THIS:

Providing North Korea with information on U.S. Military preparedness

Plotting to kill top U.S. officials

Helping the Chinese identify U.S. Informants and dismantle spy networks

Selling computer security codes to Chinese hackers

"What in the World?" - Week of Jan 21-27, 2018

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