World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – September 5-11, 2022

 

A UN report from the human rights chief charged China said the detention of Muslin minority Uyghurs in THIS province may “constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”

 

Engine trouble forced NASA to cancel the launch of the first of THIS project’s rockets that are set to take people back to the moon by 2025.

 

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres blamed ciimate change for the flooding that has blanketed a third of THIS country last week. He said world leaders were “sleepwalking towards the destruction of our planet,” as more than a 1,300 people there lost their lives and a half million were forced from their homes to live in camps.

 

A Chinese drone was shot down by THESE armed forces as they warned of counter attacks against Chinese forces entering its territory. China has conducted unprecedented, provocative military exercises around its territory since the visit of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

 

Beijing protested Washington’s announced $1.1B arms sale to Taipei saying it would “resolutely take legitimate and necessary counter-measures.” The sale was announced just days after two U.S. warships transited THIS international waterway, another irritant to China.

 

 

A right-wing gunman attempted to assassinate Cristina Fernández, leftist-populist Vice President of THIS country but the gun he stuck in her face failed to fire. Fernández who was returning to her home in Buenos Aires is being pursued on corruption charges.

 

Russian energy supplier Gazprom announced an implausible technical glitch as reason to stop shipments via THIS pipeline driving gas prices up over a third in Western Europe. The G7 had just announced a plan to cap Russian oil export prices.

 

A manhunt is underway in THIS Canadian province following a murder spree said to be carried out by two man that left ten people stabbed to death and over a dozen more sent to hospitals.

 

Voters in THIS South American country rejected a new left-leaning constitution replacing the 1980s version passed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.