"What in the World?" - Week of June 18-24, 2017
Most of the June 12th protests against President Vladimir Putin’s government held by some 150,000 people in about 170 Russian cities were put down by riot police. Protests were aimed at declining economic conditions and the lack of political freedom. THIS key leader in anti-Putin protests – he has about 120,000 volunteers in his network opposing the Kremlin – was arrested in Moscow. HIS name is:
Aleksei Navalny
Leonid Volkov
Natan Zubarevich
Kirill Rogov
Qatar was in the news as fellow Gulf partners Saudi Arabia, Bahrain the UAE and other Arab countries broke diplomatic relations over claims it supported terrorist groups. Which country on this map is Qatar?
A
B
C
D
President Donald Trump announced a reversal of measures launched by President Obama to open ties to Cuba this week in a speech in Miami. The new move will restrict some travel and commercial deals but falls short of claims to undo all of Obama’s sanction relief efforts. The announcement was made in a theater named for a leader in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba which occurred in THIS year:
1957
1961
1964
1970
Moscow and Beijing recently approved trademarks for entities belonging to the Trump organization sparking new criticism about foreign business entanglements for President Trump, especially those connected with Russia. In 2007 Trump was approved by Russia for a trademark for this product:
Trump caviar
Trump vacations
Trump vodka
Trump matryoshkas
A deadly forest fire in THIS European nation left over 60 people dead including 30 motorists trapped in their cars.
Czech Republic
Spain
Romania
Portugal
A tragic collision between the US Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald and a merchant vessel in the Western Pacific Ocean left seven sailors dead. The ship returned to its homeport in THIS city:
Yokohama
Kagoshima
Yokosuka
Sasebo
US officials are increasing scrutiny of technology transfers to China, looking to strengthen the effectiveness of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). In particular authorities are concerned about THIS technology according to a Reuters report on June 14th:
Missile Technology
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Micro-miniature Electronics (MME)
Genetically Modified Seeds (GMO)
President Trump gave Secretary of Defense Mattis authority to set troop levels in THIS country last week, paving the way for increased American boots on the ground.
South Korea
Afghanistan
Iraq
Syria
An armed rebel group led by Joseph Kony has increased its campaign of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, near the South Sudanese border, with the kidnapping of 61 civilians. The group was largely quiet for five years but has been more active since the pull out of a US-backed regional task force that pursued it. Kony’s rebels, notorious for kidnapping children to be used as fighters, fought Ugandan forces for about two decades before being ejected. The group is called THIS:
Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
African Democratic Front (ADF)
Army of God (AG)
The Kony Battalion
Saudi Arabia is about to be rewarded for its financial support to THIS country by the transfer of sovereignty of two islands in the Red Sea. However, protests in THIS country have grown over the arrangement.
Sudan
Eritrea
Egypt
Djibouti
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