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***"What in the World?" Weekly Quiz -- July 15-21, 2018***

Escalating violence between Israel and Hamas over months-long Palestinian protests for the right of return has led to the heaviest fighting in THIS region since the 2014 war:
 
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Golan Heights
East Jerusalem
At the annual NATO summit, U.S. president Donald Trump demanded that other members do THIS:
Refuse to sign unilateral energy agreements with Russia
Double their military spending immediately
Refuse to engage in talks with North Korea
Rescind sanctions against Russia for its 2014 invasion of Crimea

Following the NATO summit in Brussels, Mr. Trump traveled to the UK for a state visit, where he was met by widespread protests in several cities.  As part of the protests, a grassroots movement had UK citizens downloading THIS song in order to make it number one on the UK charts the day Mr. Trump arrived:

Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More"
Alice Cooper's "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall"
Green Day's "American Idiot"
THIS former Pakistani prime minister and his daughter were arrested as they arrived in Lahore from London this week. The former leader and his family were convicted on corruption charges in absentia, and were returning home to help galvanize their flailing Muslim League-Nawaz party ahead of elections on July 25:
Pervez Musharraf
Shahid Khaqan Abassi
Benazir Bhutto
Nawaz Sharif

THIS natural phenomenon is threatening to wreak havoc on the tiny village of Innaarsuit, in Greenland, prompting some residents to evacuate:

Especially intense underwater volcanic activity
Intense seismic activity
An extremely large herd of polar bears
A very large iceberg

Algeria drew international condemnation when it came to light that it had been dealing with a stream of over 100,000 migrants across its southern borders by doing THIS to them:

Setting them adrift in the Mediterranean Sea
Releasing them in the Sahara and forcing them—at gunpoint—to start walking towards its borders with Mali and Niger
Holding them in internment camps
Taking children from parents and deporting both separately

Mere days after declaring that their "state of war" was over, Ethiopia and Eritrea cemented theirs ties with THIS action:

A state visit by Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki to Ethiopia
Joint military exercises
Accepting the other country's ambassador
Declaring war on Djibouti

Lawmakers in the Dail, the Republic of Ireland's lower house of parliament, passed an environmentally friendly bill requiring the country to do THIS, "as soon as practicable."  The bill is expected to pass the Seanad, or upper house, when it's taken up in September:

 

Ban all single-use plastic
Institute nation-wide mandatory recycling
Divest from fossil fuels by selling off shares in gas, coal, and peat
Switch all government facilities to green energy

An effort to save a diminishing population of THIS critically endangered animal had a heavy setback when eight of eleven animals died after being relocated to a wildlife reserve in Kenya.  The relocation was meant to boost breeding:

Grévy's zebra
Bonobo
Black rhinoceros
West African giraffe

The national soccer team of THIS country won the FIFA 2018 World Cup:

France
Belgium
Croatia
England
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