"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz - September 26, 2016

Saying this country was at the “point of no return” in its relationship with the United States a Southeast Asian leader said he would visit Russia and China to “open alliances” with Moscow and Beijing.

More than 14,000 women in this country signed a petition to the government calling for an end to a system that required consent of a male guardian for many activities such as traveling abroad and permission to work or study.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 2310, adopted last week, supported the CTBT, twenty years after the treaty was opened for signature. The United States Senate has yet to ratify the treaty but the Obama administration said the interim measures were serving U.S. interests. What are those measures?

The recent United Nations General Assembly opening session focused a full day on the topic of superbugs. The subject was taken on as there are dire warnings about the consequence of this issue:

On the sidelines of the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York last week representatives of this group met to discuss their principal aim, tackling the decades old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The group called for the parties to “create the conditions for the resumption of meaningful negotiations that will end the occupation that began in 1967 and resolve all final status issues.” This international group is the:

In his final address to the United Nations General Assembly last week President Obama pointed out the impact of this change in the number of people in the world living in extreme poverty:

Last week the Tennessee World Affairs Council hosted Career Ambassador Thomas Pickering for two days of programs in Nashville. Pickering’s town hall meeting at Belmont University focused on:

At UN meetings in New York last week a joint communiqué was signed by 22 nations, the EU, the UN, the League of Arab States and the African Union regarding this country. It said in part, “We welcome the participation of Prime Minister al-Sarraj in this Ministerial. We salute his leadership and the decision of the Presidency Council (PC) to liberate Sirte from Da’esh and secure the country from other terrorist groups. We reaffirm our solidarity with the [country] people and express our sympathy for those who lost their lives in the fight against terrorism. We also welcome the efforts against terrorist groups as listed by the UN in other parts of [country], including Benghazi, and commit to collectively pursue those efforts.”

In opening remarks at the UN General Assembly, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon talked about an attack on a UN aid convoy in Syria that seemingly ended a troubled cease-fire. He said, “Just when we think it cannot get any worse, the bar of depravity sinks lower.” Some officials have called the attack a war crime and blame:

This month’s terrorist attack that left 18 soldiers dead in Kashmir has reignited tensions between these two nuclear-armed powers.