"What in the World?" - Week of May 21-27, 2017

Donald Trump has begun his first trip abroad as President. Where is he going?

On the first stop of his overseas trip President Trump met with Saudi Arabian officials including its monarch who is:

President Trump’s meetings in Riyadh included a session with leaders of over 50 Muslim majority countries. He also met with leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council which includes which six states?

Iran voters went to the polls Saturday to vote for a president. They gave a landslide victory to:

Montenegro will move closer to the West this week when it becomes the 29th member of this group.

THIS newly elected President of France will host Russian President Vladimir Putin at the palace at Versailles on May 29th to mark 300 years of Franco-Russian diplomatic relations, despite evidence of Russian interference in the recent presidential campaign.

Turkey’s President Tayyip Recep Erdogan’s visit to Washington to meet President Trump was marred by:

Reuters said American authorities are concerned about reports of THIS country possessing an inventory of 5,000 Russian-made MANPADS (shoulder-fired surface to air missiles) which posed a threat to military and commercial aircraft. The inventory is believed to have been acquired during the rule of Hugo Chavez who worried about a U.S. Military intervention during his 1999-2013 presidency.

North Korea tested an intermediate range ballistic missile on Sunday and announced that it was ready to move to missile mass-production. The continued belligerence from Pyongyang is said to undercut prospects for peace talks between the North and this newly elected South Korean President:

An American espionage network in THIS country was reportedly broken with as many as 20 CIA sources killed or imprisoned.