"What in the World?" - Week of May 28-June 3, 2017

A suicide attack at a concert in THIS English city killed 22 and left dozens injured. In response, Prime Minister Theresa May raised the UK's terror threat level to "critical":
London
Manchester
York
Birmingham
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in THIS province in an effort to quell insurgents:
Mindanao
Bohol
Abra
Quezon
Monsoon rains caused flooding and mudslides that have killed at least 103 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more in THIS island nation:
Haïti
Mauritius
Fiji
Sri Lanka
Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza's initiative to bring about order and "moralize" society requires that Burundians do THIS:
Report all acts of dishonesty
Stop gambling
Marry if they are co-habitating
Take an oath to pay taxes
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered airstrikes on camps in THIS country, believed to be training grounds for the gunmen who opened fire on buses of Coptic Christians headed to mass in Egypt:
Libya
Sudan
Jordan
Chad
Facing growing public protests against a scandal-ridden government, the president of Brazil deployed troops to contain the crowds of demonstrators, but ended the deployment when it was met with wide-spread criticism. Who is currently president of Brazil?
Dilma Rousseff
Luis Inácio Lula da Silva
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Michel Temer
Facing a marked increase in measles cases, the government of THIS European nation has instituted fines for parents who do not consult a physician about having their children vaccinated:
France
Germany
Spain
Switzerland
In the interests of being more eco-friendly, the Wacken Open Air hard rock festival, held annually in Germany, will feature THIS new way of meeting the needs of attendees, designed to use fewer resources than traditional methods:
Mass drone shipments of food
Reclaimed and treated gray water for showers
A beer pipeline
Composting toilets
A power supply problem with THIS UK airline's global computer network left thousands of passengers stranded across Great Briain, and forced the cancellation of all flights out of London's Gatwick and Heathrow airports.
Ryan Air
Virgin Atlantic
Easy Jet
British Airways
The leaders of Japan, Germany, France, Great Britain, Canada, and Italy urged United States president Donald Trump to honor THIS international agreement at the G7's annual summit this week.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Paris Agreement
Global Plan of Action to Prevent Trafficking in Persons
Kyoto Protocol
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