"What in the World?" - Week of Dec 24-30, 2017

The United Nations’ General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve a non-binding resolution against the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Many of the 128 nations that voted in favor of the measure are long-time U.S. allies. Days before the scheduled vote, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned member states that the U.S. Government was watching the vote closely and would do THIS:

�Take names” of the countries that voted against the U.S. policy

�Cut ties” with the countries that voted against the U.S. policy

�Declare war” on the countries that voted against the U.S. policy

�Levy fines” against the countries that voted against the U.S. policy

A man was charged with 18 counts of attempted murder after he ploughed an SUV into pedestrians in a crowded business district of THIS Australian city:

Sydney

Perth

Melbourne

Canberra

Bringing flash flooding and mudslides, tropical storm Tembin killed a reported 180 people in THIS Asian nation:

Japan

Philippines

Vietnam

China

Citing meddling in internal affairs, Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly expelled Canada’s top diplomat. Nicolas Maduro’s government also expelled the ambassador from THIS country, citing violations of the rule of law. The 2016 impeachment of the nation in question’s left-wing president, Dilma Roussef, has soured its relations with the Maduro government considerably:

France

Brazil

Japan

Germany

After three weeks of uncertainty and unrest, incumbent Juan Orlando Hernández was declared the winner of Honduras’s presidential election, despite calls by THIS international organization for new elections, citing irregularities, lack of integrity, and “low technical quality” in the November 26 voting.

The European Union

The United Nations

The Organization of American States

Amnesty International

The president of THIS nation narrowly escaped impeachment over charges of corruption in a scandal involving a Brazilian construction company.

Mexico

Peru

Venezuela

Honduras

Poland’s top judicial official wrote an open letter to her nation’s government, accusing it of “a coup d’état” against the judiciary. President Andrzej Duda has signed two laws reforming the Supreme Court and the National Council of the Judiciary. The first law allows politicians to appoint judges, while the second law does THIS:

Requires judges to swear an oath of loyalty to the ruling Law and Justice Party

Revokes any rulings that impact parliamentary elections dating back to 2015

Requires all judicial decisions be reviewed by a committee of the Law and Justice Party

Lowers the mandatory retirement age of judicial officials, forcing 40% of the current judiciary to retire immediately

The International Committee of the Red Cross announced that the number of suspected cases of THIS disease has reached one million in Yemen:

Ebola

Cholera

AIDS

Measles

Common to the southern regions of the country, a truffle was found growing in THIS unusual location in France, filling French foodies with hope that the expensive fungus might be cultivated far from the gentle Mediterranean climate:

On a rooftop in Paris

At the base of Mont St. Michel

In the Alps

In the undergrowth along Omaha Beach

"What in the World?" - Week of Dec 24-30, 2017

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