"What in the World?" - Week of Nov 26- Dec 2, 2017

This week the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal found former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity for atrocities during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war. Mr. Mladic commanded forces responsible for the deadly three-year Siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys—the largest in Europe since World War II—in THIS city:

Egyptian forces say that men who attacked a mosque in the Sinai during Friday prayers carried flags identifying them with THIS terrorist organization. The attack left over 300 worshippers dead:

For the first time in over 30 years Zimbabwe got a new president this week. Who was sworn in, pledging to “reengage with the world”?

One person in France dies every three days from THIS problem, cited by French president Emmanuel Macron as, “France’s shame”:

King Mohammed VI of Morocco asked his citizens to pray for an end to THIS threat to the nation’s primary crops:

THIS circus animal broke loose and roamed the streets of Paris until handlers shot and killed it:

A Chinese youth soccer team stormed off the field during an exhibition match in THIS country when protesters in the stands unfurled Tibetan flags:

Bringing in an unmanned submersible, Russia joined more than a dozen other countries that have contributed to the search off the coast of Argentina for THIS:

The government of THIS nation has just created a 57,000-square mile marine reserve around a group of islands that are home to many migratory species, including whales, sea turtles, and rays:

In keeping with its 2015 constitution, THIS Asian nation held its first general election, a decade after a civil war and the end of two centuries of monarchy: