"What in the World?" - Week of April 23-29, 2017

Three people were killed as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Venezuela this week to express their anger against THIS leader:
Hugo Chavez
Juan Manuel Santos
Donald Trump
Nicolas Maduro
After a gunman opened fire on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, killing a police officer, THIS French presidential candidate called for all French terror suspects who hold "two nationalities" [i.e., born to immigrant parents] to be expelled from the country:
Marine Le Pen
Benoît Hamon
François Fillon
Emmanuel Macron
This week British Prime Minister Theresa May won Parliament's backing for THIS:
Brexit
Dissolution of the House of Commons
Early elections
New immigration restrictions
People flocked to the tiny town of Ferryland in Newfoundland, Canada, to take pictures of THIS unusual offshore site:
Ten pods of blue whales
An iceberg that had gotten stuck
A flock of migrating penguins
Manoeuvers by the Canadian navy
Analysts charged with monitoring activity at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear facility reported seeing three groups of people engaged in THIS:
Military manoeuvers
Radiation leakage
Volleyball matches
Evacuation drills
Afghan president Ashraf Ghani declared a national day of mourning after more than 100 soldiers were killed or injured in an attack on a military base in Mazar-i-Sharif. The 10 attackers were Taliban fighters disguised as THIS:
Women
Medics
Afghan soldiers
Journalists
An Italian prosecutor told La Stampa newspaper this week that he has evidence that members of THIS group have been colluding with human traffickers in Libya to smuggle migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe.
Police officers
Charities
UN officials
Medical personnel
Great Britain celebrated its first entire working day since the Industrial Revolution without THIS:
Electricity
Tea
Coal
Steam-powered machinery
Citing a significantly reduced possibility of threat by Joseph Kony, THIS country joined the United States and called off the manhunt for the infamous warlord, commander of the Lord's Resistance Army:
Uganda
Kenya
Somalia
Rwanda
According to the Foreign Minister of THIS country, his nation's Defense Intelligence Service's unit for cyber security found that Russia had spied against government entities, gaining access to non-classified documents:
France
Denmark
Saudi Arabia
China
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