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1. This state saw its Republican Party decide not to allow voters at its caucus to vote for a presidential candidate.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Colorado. The state party’s executive committee voted to cancel the presidential preference poll. The move will likely give Ted Cruz most, if not all, of the state’s thirty-seven delegates and make it more difficult for Donald Trump to win a majority by the time of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.[/toggle]
2. South Korea announced this week that two North Korean officials defected last year. What positions did these people occupy in government?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]One official was a North Korean army colonel that was an espionage specialist, while another was a senior diplomat in an African country. It is estimated that 1,276 people fled from North Korea to South Korea last year.[/toggle]
3. What type of European Union (EU) agreement did Dutch voters reject last week?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]A treaty that called for greater political and economic ties between the EU and the Ukraine. The treaty had been signed by the Dutch government and took effect in January, but Dutch voters symbolically rejected it with 64% of the vote. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that the treaty will have to be modified as his government cannot secure its ratification after the vote.[/toggle]
4. What did President Obama recently announce was the biggest mistake of his presidency?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Not planning enough for the reconstruction of Libya after the U.S. intervened with allies within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 2011. President Obama made the announcement at a news conference on April 5. The President said that he underestimated the willingness of European partners to bear more of a burden in reconstruction and that intelligence estimates of Libya’s ethnic divisions were understated.[/toggle]
5. Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin, a flight officer on the Navy’s EP-3E Reconnaissance aircraft, has recently been accused of passing secrets to this nation.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]China. The government has charged Lin with five counts of attempted espionage, three counts of making false official statements, and five counts of communicating defense information “to a person not entitled to receive said information.” Lin could face the death penalty if found guilty of some of the serious espionage charges that he faces.[/toggle]
6. This Latin American nation will have a presidential runoff after no candidate won a majority of the first round votes over the weekend.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Peru. Early returns suggest that Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, would win roughly 40% of the vote. Investor favorite Pedro Pablo Kuczynski won 24% of the vote and could possibly rally existing votes to win the runoff.[/toggle]
7. This European country is considering a request by Turkey to prosecute a TV comedian for writing and reciting a crude poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Germany. Turkey sent a diplomatic request for the prosecution against comedian Jan Boehermann for a poem that alleged lewd behavior by Erdogan. Germany’s criminal code allows for the imprisonment of someone for three years if they insult a foreign head of state.[/toggle]
8. How long is the U.S. tax code?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Roughly four million words. Some international experts criticize the “backward” nature of the tax code, noting that its complications are due to the deductions that Americans love to reduce their tax burden each year.[/toggle]
9. This U.S. newspaper satirized Donald Trump over the weekend, producing a Sunday front page that wrote mock stories about what his presidency would be like.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The Boston Globe. The paper warned that Trump would begin deportations of illegal immigrants, creating riots in the country, and that a trade war would loom and hurt the U.S. economy. Critics said that it hurt the professional reputation of the paper and that it mirrored a high school prank.[/toggle]
10. Why did Iceland’s prime minister resign last week?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson stepped down amidst allegations that he sought to hide his wealth and taxes. His name appeared as part of the Panama Papers, which accuse some foreign leaders of trying to avoid taxes by storing them in offshore accounts.[/toggle]