"What in the World?" - Week of November 13-19, 2016

Because of continued heavy immigration the European Commission agreed this week to extend border checks in the Schengen Area, normally a free-travel zone comprised of most EU members and a few non-members. Of the following nations, which one is currently an EU member but not a member of Schengen?

A court ruling this week annulled a decision by the government of which nation to give the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia?

The elite forces of which nation's Counter Terrorism Service continued to push into Mosul this week, in the quest to defeat ISIS?

Talks on reuniting the divided island of Cyprus recessed this week, and are scheduled to resume on November 20. Cyprus is currently divided into two distinct zones, one each for Cypriots of which two ethnicities?

During the recent presidential campaign U.S. President-elect Donald Trump stated that he planned to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. Such a removal of the U.S. From the forefront of efforts to combat climate change means that leading the charge against global warming could fall to which nation?

In an effort to staunch the flow of migrants who risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other officials urged developed nations to invest in a "Marshall Plan" for developing nations in which area?

Workers in southern China unearthed "Tongtianlong limosus," a new species of what?

November 11 is which holiday in China, noteworthy this year for the estimated $17.9 billion spent in online shopping?

In an effort to end the so-called "black economy," India's government has banned the use of what?

November 13, 2016 marked the one-year anniversary of six coordinated terrorist attacks by ISIL that left 130 people dead in which European capital?