***"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz -- September 23-29, 2018***

Intensified fighting around the port city of Hodeida in THIS country has made an already fragile humanitarian situation go from bleak to dire, with parts of the country so desperate from famine that people are eating leaves, according to the humanitarian chief for the United Nations. Over 75 % of the nation in question's population relies on humanitarian aid, but because of the ongoing war, supply routes from Hodeida to the rest of the country are impassible:

European Union Council President Donald Tusk dealt a harsh blow to the United Kingdom's Prime Minister Theresa May at this week's Salzburg Summit when he deemed THIS plan, designed to guide both parties through Brexit, unworkable. The plan is named after the prime minister's country home, where she and her advisors developed it in July:

Three years after it was suspended following a massive doping scandal in which lab workers were found to have altered samples to protect athletes, THIS country's anti-doping agency's drug-testing system was reinstated by the World Anti-Doping Agency:

An overloaded ferry sailing between two islands on THIS lake—Africa's largest by area—and off the coast of Tanzania capsized Thursday; the death toll is over 200, with recovery efforts still on-going:

 A high-speed rail link has launched between Hong Kong and the Chinese city of Guangzhou, connecting the two by a train ride of around 40 minutes.  The new rail service is controversial, however, because it's launch means that THIS will now be in Hong Kong, for the first time ever:

India is in the middle of a ten-day celebration honoring THIS elephant-headed Hindu god of luck and wisdom.  Worshippers are submerging statues of the god in bodies of water all over Mumbai, India's largest city, but especially along the city's Arabian Sea coast: