Tennessee World Affairs Council What in the World? Weekly Quiz – June 14-20, 2021

President Biden and Prime Minister Johnson signed a new form of THIS historical agreement originally forged by FDR and Winston Churchill. It commits the US and UK to cooperating on science, technology and climate change, and support for NATO.

Israel’s Parliament voted Sunday on an unprecedented political coalition between the right, left, and center, as well as an Arab-Islamist party to replace Benjamin Netanyahu after 12 years as Prime Minister. The new Prime Minister is THIS leader of the right-wing Yamina party.

In an interview with Western media ahead of his June 16th meeting with President Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin floated THIS idea for cooperation between Moscow and Washington.

The presidential election in THIS Gulf country on Friday is expected to have the lowest voter turnout in its history after the Guardian Council disqualified the majority of moderate candidates. This increases the likelihood that the successor to term-limited President Rouhani will be a hardline conservative who takes a staunch, anti-Western approach in foreign policy.

U.S.-China tensions were juiced-up by news Washington would send 750,000 Covid-19 vaccines to THIS region claimed by Beijing, followed by Secretary of State Blinken’s announcement that trade talks with it were starting.

France announced the end of independent military operations called Operation Barkhane in THIS African region, but would continue as part of international efforts.

This week four members of a Muslim family were killed in an apparent deliberate assault and the prime minister of THIS country called it a “terrorist attack, motivated by hatred.” The victims may have been targeted because of their religion. Meanwhile the PM is coping with the discovery of mass unmarked graves of native children at a government school.

While its main currency remains the U.S. dollar, THIS country has become the first state to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender. The digital currency may aid the country’s development because 70% of citizens do not have access to traditional banking systems.

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of THIS well-known terrorist organization responsible for the infamous kidnappings of schoolgirls in Nigeria, is thought to be dead after he allegedly committed suicide rather than being held by a rival group.