"What in the World?" - Week of April 15-21 2018

The United States, Great Britain, and France launched air strikes against Syria this week in response to the use of chemical weapons in THIS Syrian town:

Ghouta

Raqqa

Douma

Bosra

The Summit of the Americas opened this weekend in Peru, without Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, who isn’t attending for THIS reason:

Persistent unrest at home

Trade disputes with other nations in the region

His invitation was rescinded in protest of dictatorial practices surrounding upcoming elections

Ill health

The supreme court of THIS country barred its former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, from ever holding elected office again. Mr. Sharif was removed from office in 2017 due to corruption charges stemming from the Panama Papers:

Pakistan

Nepal

Bangladesh

Indonesia

In the midst of escalating tensions with China over the possibility of a trade war, U.S. president Donald Trump announced that his administration will explore the possibility of doing THIS:

Negotiating bilateral trade agreements with China’s other major trading partners

Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Setting up a free-trade zone in the South China Sea

Negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with Hong Kong

THIS European nation’s parliament passed a law making it easier for citizens to change their gender and name in legal documents:

Italy

Greece

Spain

Portugal

Last week Hungary re-elected its right-wing prime minister by giving his party a two-thirds majority in parliament. This week, the nation’s last, independent, non-state-influenced WHAT shut down?

Newspaper

Radio station

Television channel

News website

Pick the correct African country/capital match:

Burundi-Bujumbura

Angola - Kigali

Cameroon - Luanda

Niger - Windhoek

The United Nations declared the humanitarian crisis in THIS African country a level three, the most severe level possible. To help, the UN organized a donor conference in Geneva this week, but the nation in question boycotted it, saying that the international body was exaggerating the severity of the crisis:

Kenya

South Sudan

Somalia

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The government of Algeria declared three days of mourning for the 257 people who died in THIS disaster, the nation’s worst ever:

Refinery explosion

Airplane crash

Terrorist attack

Earthquake

Billed as “hip design objects,” THESE two items sold at the Paris auction house of Drouot this week for a cool $1.7 million, each:

Wooly mammoth skins

Sabre-tooth tiger skins

Dinosaur skeletons

Great white shark skeletons

"What in the World?" - Week of April 15-21 2018

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