World (2010s) Flashcards
Leaked through a pair of reporters at the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, a trove of 13.4 million files was unveiled in early November 2017 that relate to controversial offshore investments by numerous prominent companies and individuals. This set of documents is known by what name?
Paradise Papers
In 2015, this former Egyptian president got a death sentence for colluding with Islamists
Mohammed Morsi
In 2017 Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah marked 50 years on the throne of this country.
Brunei
The populist political parties the Five Star Movement and the League, having earned the most votes in the general election held on March 4, 2018, formed a coalition government that is now in place in what country?
Italy
The sartorial trademark of a man named Salva Kiir Mayardit is a Stetson hat that he has worn in virtually every public appearance since 2006, when he received the hat as a gift from George W. Bush. Mayardit has served since 2011 as the first president of what republic?
South Sudan
In March 2018, this former Russian military intelligence officer and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent, allegedly by Russian agents.
Sergei Skripal
The economic bloc known as the G8 became the G7 in 2014 upon the expulsion of this country.
Russia
Name the country that completes this quote, declared by Juan Guaido on January 23, 2019: “Juro asumir formalmente las competencias del Ejecutivo nacional como el presidente encargado de ________.”
Venezuela
A conflict began in early 2015 and is still ongoing between an armed insurgency movement known as Houthi and the government of what country, led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi? (Card created March 26th, 2019)
Yemen
When she was elected in March 2017, Carrie Lam became the first woman to hold her position in its 20-year history. The position is as Chief Executive of what?
Hong Kong
A tax on calls over free internet-based messaging services such as WhatsApp, announced in October 2019, added to growing popular resentment over various economic and public sector corruption issues and triggered mass protests across what country, ultimately leading to the resignation of its prime minister on October 29?
Lebanon
In May 2015, what traditionally Catholic country became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote? The country voted to repeal a constitutional ban on abortion three years later.
Ireland
What republic, ruled at various times by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Spanish, and Turks, is the only country to peacefully transition to democracy following the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011?
Tunisia
The first human-made object to exit the heliosphere and enter interstellar space, doing so in August 2012, was one of the two probes launched by NASA as a part of what program? The program’s other probe entered interstellar space in November 2018.
Voyager
