"What in the World?" - Week of December 25-31, 2016

In the wake of a Security Council vote against its settlement expansion policy, which nation announced it was reconsidering its membership in the UN?

Economic woes continue to plague Mauricio Marci's first year in office as president of which nation?

Typhoon “Nock-ten” was bearing down on which Pacific nation, threatening to disrupt Christmas Day festivities?

A Russian military transport aircraft enroute from Moscow to Latakia, Syria carrying a famous military musical ensemble crashed shortly after takeoff from this Black Sea city:

The government of Pierre Nkurunziza, president of Burundi, has halted legal action against which organizations operating in his country? The work of these organizations had been suspended pending litigation, on the grounds that they had interfered in Mr. Nkurunziza's run for a third term.

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria announced that his nation's army had captured a key training camp belonging to which terrorist organization?

The easing of sanction against Iran has led its leaders to begin replacing the nation's aging aircraft. Iranian leaders have negotiated a deep discount on an order placed with which aircraft manufacturer?

A producer with which major news outlet has been arrested in Egypt on charges of provoking sedition:

Chinese officials in the city of Suzhou have halted the sale of some products due to confirmed cases of what?

Two Libyan hijackers surrendered this week after diverting an internal Libyan Air flight to Malta. The two men pledged their loyalty to Muammar Gaddafi, the man who led Libya for over 40 years, and whose death has left Libya without a commonly recognized government. In which year did Gaddafi die?