"What in the World?" - Week of Aug 20-26, 2017

The Security Consultative Committee met last week in Washington, D.C., to affirm commitment to extended deterrence, or the pledge to protect allies and retaliate on their behalf if they are attacked. This particular committee meeting focuses on protecting which U.S. Ally from possible attack by North Korea?
South Korea
China
Japan
India
Saudi Arabia and Iraq have reestablished THIS link between their countries, 27 years after it was first closed.
Diplomatic relations
Trade talks
Open border for trade
Daily flights from Jeddah to Baghdad
Hundreds are dead or missing after Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, was hit by THIS natural disaster
Mudslides
Wildfires
Earthquakes
Flooding
14 people were killed and over 100 injured as a van rammed into a crowded tourist area in THIS city in Spain. Hours later, another car also ploughed into pedestrians in the resort town of Cambrils, about 70 miles away.
Bilbao
Valencia
Barcelona
Seville
Millions of people face food shortages and disease due to severe seasonal flooding in THESE three nations.
Ghana, Togo, Benin
Nepal, Bangladesh, India
Italy, Slovenia, Croatia
Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
Australia's High Court will have to decide whether or not a duly elected Member of Parliament will be able to keep her office because of a law prohibiting politicians from doing what?
Holding more than one office at once
Being younger than 35
Being convicted of a serious crime
Holding dual citizenship
Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai announced that she will be attending THIS elite university, where she'll study philosophy, politics, and economics.
Harvard
Oxford
Yale
Cambridge
Venezuela's newly elected Constituent Assembly voted to give itself powers that essentially supersede those of THIS opposition-led branch of government.
Chief Executive
Supreme Court
Congress
Republican Moral Council
Despite border posts being on red alert to prevent her exit, Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe returned home from South Africa under diplomatic immunity. Mrs. Mugabe is accused of having committed what crime in South Africa?
Assault
Forgery
Theft
Manslaughter
Finnish authorities are classifying a series of stabbings by an 18-year old Moroccan man as Finland's first terrorist attack. Two people were killed and eight others were injured; based on the victims' identities, authorities have stated that he appeared to be targeting whom?
Men
The elderly
Women
Young people
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