"What in the World?" - Week of May 6-12, 2018 | Take the Quiz

Vladimir Putin was sworn in to his fourth six-year term as President of Russia saying the country would prove a strong, muscular player on the world stage, backed by a powerful military, while pushing hard to improve life for its citizens at home, according to Reuters. Attention now shifts to Putin’s choice for Prime Minister. Among those in the running is THIS current Prime Minister and former President of Russia:

Dmitry Medvedev

Alexei Navalny

Alexander Ovechkin

Alexander Rutskoy

In recent talks President Trump’s lead trade negotiator, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, is said to be including a requirement for 40% of the content of a car manufactured in the North American bloc to come from workers who earn a minimum wage – said to be $16 per hour. Lighthizer is engaged in THIS process:

Renegotiation of the TPP

Bilateral trade talks with Mexico

Renegotiation of NAFTA

Trade talks with the APEC nations

Breaking with decades of US Government policy the Trump Administration will open a new American Embassy in this controversial Middle East capital on May 14.

Tel Aviv

Tehran

Beirut

Jerusalem

Leaders in France, Germany, and the UK affirmed their support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, with British foreign secretary Boris Johnson saying, “The Iran nuclear deal is not based on trust about Iran’s intentions; rather it is based on tough verification” following Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s televised presentation that claimed THIS:

Iran is pressing ahead with enriching uranium for a nuclear weapon through a secret process.

Iran has reached agreement with North Korea to import fissile material for a nuclear weapon.

Iran, prior to 2003, had a secret research and development program to build a nuclear weapon.

Iran holds secret, secure stockpiles of fissile material and is ready to produce a nuclear weapon.

Shortly after announcing he would visit THIS country’s capital in July – and likely face widespread protests, President Trump criticized gun control efforts there during remarks at the National Rifle Association conference in Dallas. He said the country “has unbelievably tough gun laws, a once very prestigious hospital right in the middle is like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds.”

France

Turkey

Spain

Former secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont, living in self-imposed exile in Germany, is said to be the named, by May 14^th, to lead an independence-minded movement in THIS region. Puigdemont fled his homeland after the central government of Spain cracked down on the secession movement and took over direct rule of the region.

Wallonia

Basque Country

Castillians

Catalonia

Last week the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, an international watchdog, reported on the amount of a nerve agent was used in the March 4^th attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skirpal in Salisbury, England. UK leader Theresa May blamed the assassination attempt on Moscow and led Western nations’ response of diplomatic expulsions and sanctions. The nerve agent believed to have been used was:

Novichok

Sarin

Chlorine

North Korea on Sunday followed up the April 27^th historic meeting between DPRK Supreme Leader Kim Jung-un and ROK President Moon Jae-in with a statement saying all of these things EXCEPT:

Washington should not “deliberately provoke” Pyongyang by deploying strategic assets to South Korea or raising human rights issues.

Kim Jung-un invited Trump to hold the summit meeting in Pyongyang.

Washington was “misleading public opinion” that the denuclearization pledge resulted from American sanction threats and other pressure.

It would be a mistake to view North Korea’s “peace-loving intentions” as a sign of weakness.

This organization, listed by the US State Department as a terrorist group, won a majority of seats in the Lebanese Parliament last week highlighting Iranian influence in the country and drawing criticism from Israel, where an official said the Lebanese country and this group were indistinguishable.

Hamas

Hizbollah

ISIS

Al Qaeda

Which of these statements is NOT TRUE concerning the US-China trade talks that are set for Thursday in Beijing:

President Trump has demanded a $100 billion annual reduction in the $375 billion U.S. Goods trade deficit with China.

The most likely outcome of the meeting is for the two sides to agree to keep talking.

President Trump has threatened to raise the price of American agricultural products exported to China.

China said it will not negotiate on core interests like the “Made in China 2025” domestic manufacturing upgrade program.

"What in the World?" - Week of May 6-12, 2018

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