What in the World? Weekly Quiz - November 9-15, 2020

After weeks of the largest protests Poland has seen since the fall of communism, the government has delayed implementing a court ruling that would outlaw THIS:

A few days after an ISIS sympathizer shot and killed four people in Vienna's historic city center, Austrian authorities reacted by doing THIS:

On Wednesday, November 4, the United States became the first country to leave THIS historic international agreement:

Numerous world leaders have sent congratulatory messages to President-Elect Biden. The list includes ONLY THIS ONE. (As of 8:00 a.m. Nov 9)

Armed conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State between the Arakan Army and the Tatmadaw, the national army, has escalated sharply in the past two years. This development has been largely eclipsed, however, by the continuing international focus on the human rights crisis of THIS Muslim minority.  [USIP Question of the Week]

Hashim Thaçi, Kosovo's president, resigned his office this week in order to do THIS:

In response to an attack on national troops by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a government organization that controls THIS country's northernmost region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered federal troops to engage in military confrontation with the TPLF, leading the country in question to the brink of civil war:

THIS nation's first school for transgendered citizens opened in the capital, Dhaka. The privately funded seminary will offer courses in Islamic and vocational studies, and help create access to employment, which is often difficult for transgendered citizens to obtain:

In its largest such demolition in the past decade, the Israeli government bulldozed the Palestinian village of Khirbet Humsah, displacing 73 people, including 41 children.  When questioned, residents of Khirbet Humsah stated that they felt that THIS had emboldened the Israeli government, encouraging it to proceed with the destruction of the village:

China’s Ambassador to the UN told a World Health Organization meeting it was “illegal and invalid” to include THIS as a WHO observer state since it would violate the “One China” policy.