World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – April 11-17, 2022

Russia’s strike to capture capital city Kyiv has failed and Moscow is maneuvering forces for a major offensive in the Donbas region in THIS part of Ukraine.

North

South

East

West

Ukraine President Zelensky hosted THIS NATO head of state on the streets of Kyiv as a demonstration of Western solidarity in the face of the unprovoked Russian invasion.

Emmanuel Macron

Boris Johnson

Joe Biden

Olaf Scholz

Emmanuel Macron advanced to the second round of presidential voting in France Sunday and will face THIS far-right candidate who has surged to close the vote gap following French dissatisfaction with the economy and immigration issues.

Marine Le Pen

Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Eric Zemmour

Gérard Depardieu

Pakistan will have a new prime minister, likely to be Shehbaz Sharif, after the parliament voted “no-confidence” in THIS former cricket star turned political leader.

Pervez Musharraf

Nawaz Sharif

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Imran Khan

United States’ and Indian defense and foreign ministers will meet in a regular “2+2” ministerial session following a call between President Bush and THIS prime minister as friction mounts in the relationship over New Delhi’s lukewarm reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Rahul Gandi

Amit Shah

Narendra Modi

United States’ officials expect THESE Nordic countries to seek NATO membership within months as Russia, which seems to have inspired the move by its invasion of Ukraine, has warned against further alliance enlargement.

Iceland and Finland

Sweden and Norway

Norway and Finland

Finland and Sweden

A Palestinian gunman killed three and wounded 16 in a busy entertainment district of Tel Aviv Friday leading THIS prime minister to declare security forces had “full freedom” to combat a surge of attacks in Israel.

Naftali Bennett

Benjamin Netanyahu

Benny Gantz

Isaac Herzog

Voters in THIS country gave President Andrés Manuel López Obrador a victory in a recall referendum he asked for, with a 90% margin. The leader, known as AMLO, has been criticized for distracting voters from his failures with the referendum.

Colombia

Bolivia

Mexico

Venezuela

Chinese President Xi Jinping is standing by the “zero-Covid” policy in containing the pandemic. However, THIS major city which accounts for 3.6% of GDP seemed to relax restrictions after becoming a ghost town and reporting a record number of Covid cases according to the “Economist.”

Beijing

Chengdu

Shanghai

Wuhan

The trial of 26 Saudis for the murder of dissident and "Washington Post" journalist Jamal Khashoggi was halted in THIS country where the killing occurred in 2018. The presiding judge said the case would be moved to Saudi Arabia, an act criticized by Amnesty International as an “appalling and clearly political decision.”

Pakistan

Romania

Turkey

Greece

World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – April 11-17, 2022

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