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1. This Latin American country was rocked by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on Saturday.
[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”]Ecuador. It is estimated to have killed more than 350 people and it damaged villages near the Pacific coast. President Rafael Correa said that the quake was the worst natural disaster to hit Ecuador since 1949, when an earthquake in the Andes killed more than 5,000 people.[/toggle]
2. What was the vote tally in the lower chamber of the Brazilian legislature when it came to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff?
[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”]367-137-7. This provided the necessary two-thirds vote to impeach Rousseff and sends the case to the Senate for a trial.[/toggle]
3. Saudi Arabia has said that they will do this if Congress approves of a bill that allows their government to be held liable for the September 11 terror attacks.
[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”]Saudi Arabia has threatened to sell $750 billion in treasury securities and American assets. It says that doing so would not allow them to be frozen by American courts. Skeptics say that this would hurt the Saudi economy, but the move appears to have worked as the Obama administration is urging Congress not to pass the bill.[/toggle]
4. How many chief executives has Yahoo! had in the past decade?
[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”]Five. Yahoo! is currently looking for a buyer after losing the search engine competition to Google and failing to attract big advertising dollars. Its attempts at creating new original content has also failed to payoff thus far.[/toggle]
5. What exceptions to its dress code did the U.S. military make 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”]The U.S. Army decided to allow three Sikh soldiers to wear their beards and turbans. Supporters say that it will encourage more religious minorities to join the military.[/toggle]
6. This global figure recently brought back a dozen Syrian refugees to their country.
[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”]Pope Francis. After visiting a refugee camp in Greece on Saturday, the Vatican announced that three refugee families would be placed in Italy and supported by the Roman Catholic Church.[/toggle]
7. How many illegal immigrants could be affected by President Obama’s executive actions, which the Supreme Court is reviewing this 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”]Four million. The Obama administration has issued executive actions to broaden the eligibility requirements of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and lower the priority for removing illegal immigrants that have been in the U.S. since 2010.[/toggle]
8. Which state is moving to make the Bible their state book?
[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”]Tennessee. Governor Bill Haslam vetoed a measure that would have made the Bible the state’s book, but a Republican legislature might overturn that veto. Under Tennessee’s constitution, a simple majority of the state legislature can overturn a governor’s veto.[/toggle]
9. How many delegates will be awarded in the Republican and Democratic New York primaries?
[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”]New York is worth ninety-five delegates in the Republican presidential contest and 291 in the Democratic contest.[/toggle]
10. What is the structure of the South Sudanese unity 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”]President Salva Kiir will maintain his position, but rival Riek Machar will become First Vice President. This unity government will exist until new elections are held, but the virtual power sharing arrangement is hoped to fix the nation’s growing instability and economic problems after two years of civil war.[/toggle]