"What in the World?" - Week of Sep 24-30, 2017

This week and next here are important votes scheduled in all of these places EXCEPT:

The C5+1, according to the State Department, is a forum for the U.S. And five countries from THIS region “to focus on three sectors of common interest – security, with a focus on terrorist threats; economics, with a focus on improving regional trade flows and prospects for U.S. Trade and investment; and environmental challenges.”

President Trump told the UN General Assembly he wants to reopen negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal signed in 2015. What is the agreement called?

A referendum for independence for Kurdistan from Iraq drew hostile reaction from neighboring countries including THIS state:

Angela Merkel won a fourth term as Chancellor of Germany but the election was marked by the performance of THIS right-wing political party which will now be seated in the Bundestag.

THIS country claimed to have completed destruction of its chemical weapon stockpile in accordance with a multinational agreement and claimed that the United States was dragging its feet in completing the job.

A new US travel ban included THIS country which was criticized by France as counterproductive in the war on terror.

China said THIS entity was “not a country” and would “reap the consequences” of a formal declaration of independence.

The head of the UN “watchdog” agency monitoring Iranian compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal asked the major powers that participated in the agreement to clarify portions of the pact dealing with technology that could be used to develop an atom bomb. What is the agency?

In response to North Korean saber-rattling the U.S. Conducted a show of force this weekend designed to send a message to Pyongyang. What was this action?