World Affairs Council of Hilton Head What in the World? Weekly Quiz – May 22-28, 2023

President Biden met Western leaders in Tokyo but cut short visits to Australia and THIS Pacific nation being courted by both China and the United States to be back in Washington for debt negotiations with Congress. Secretary of State Blinken showed up in Port Moresby to sign a security agreement instead of POTUS.

Philippines

New Zealand

Solomon Islands

Papua New Guinea

Leaders of THIS group of leading Western economies meeting in Japan called for the development and adoption of technical standards to keep artificial intelligence "trustworthy" as concerns deepen over its growth.

Group of Seven (G7)

Group of Eight (G8)

Group of Ten (G10)

Group of Twenty (G20)

In January the leader of the Wagner mercenary group offered to disclose Russian troop positions in exchange for Ukrainian withdrawal from THIS beleaguered city according to leaked US intelligence documents.

Mariupol

Bakhmut

Kharkiv

Donetsk

President Bashar al-Assad was welcomed back into THIS organization after 12 years of isolation as a result of his brutal repression of the Arab Spring uprising in Syria.

Organization of Islamic Cooperation

League of Arab States

Arab Union

OPEC

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a guest at the G-7 summit in Japan where he participated in a hasty meeting of THIS grouping of nations that seek a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” meaning China pushback. The meeting planned for Australia was scotched by a change in President Biden’s travel.

AUKUS

Quad

PacIndCom

Indo Treaty Organization

The UN’s World Meteorological Organization issued THIS dire warning.

Polar ice melt is increasing and 57 nations now face rising sea levels that threaten urban area inundation.

A 66% chance average global temperature will be 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels at some point in the next five years.

Rising temperatures will increase drought induced reductions of about 45% in Sub-Saharan nations.

Melting among the nearly 15,000 glaciers in the Himalayan Plateau will decrease water supply to over 500 million people who rely on meltwater in Indian rivers.

Ukraine claimed it downed most of the Russian drones, cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles in the latest air strike onslaught against Kyiv and other cities but acknowledge the attacks damaged a battery of THIS system, a key to its air defense.

NASAM

Kinzhal

ATACMS

Patriot

President Zelensky was a surprise guest at the G-7 meeting in THIS city where he asked the wealthiest nations to bolster aid to Ukraine.

Tokyo

Bangkok

Hiroshima

Kyoto

Heavy fighting continued into the sixth week in THIS capital city between the army and the Rapid Security Forces group, which has forced over one million Sudanese to flee.

Addis Ababa

Khartoum

Nairobi

Dodoma

President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the National Assembly in Quito after facing looming impeachment over alleged mismanagement in THIS country. The turmoil is the latest episode in the region that saw Peru's former President removed from office.

Ecuador

Bolivia

Uruguay

Brazil

World Affairs Council of Hilton Head What in the World? Weekly Quiz – May 22-28, 2023

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