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1. A conflict between these two countries took place 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”]Azerbaijan and Armenia. Both countries are fighting over a dispute in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is an internationally unrecognized Armenian-dominated area inside of Azerbaijan territory. Conflict over the area has been dormant since 1994 when a truce ended a war between both sides.[/toggle]
2. How does Mexico City aim to tackle its air pollution problem?
[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 city is planning to ban car-driving from April 5 to June 30. The plan would require that all privately owned vehicles stay off streets one per week and one additional Saturday per month. The city’s air was deemed as the most polluted on the planet by the United Nations in 1992.[/toggle]
3. What controversial statement did Republican frontrunner Donald Trump make about abortion 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”]Trump said that women should face “some sort of punishment” if abortion was outlawed. The comment was in a town hall with MSNBC host Chris Matthews. Trump later said that he meant that doctors should be accountable, not the women receiving the procedure.[/toggle]
4. Why are five stars on the U.S. women’s soccer team filing a wage complaint with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission?
[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 players allege that despite generating $20 million in more revenue than the men’s U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) that they were paid 38-72% less. The players also note that they have had more success than the men’s national team, but are not receiving just compensation.[/toggle]
5. What controversial abortion bill did Utah recently pass?
[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 bill requires doctors to administer anesthesia to women seeking abortions after the twentieth week of pregnancy. Physicians doubt the medical claims of supporters, who say that the bill is needed to protect women’s health.[/toggle]
6. How did the Supreme Court rule in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association?
[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 Court deadlocked at 4-4. This means that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling that unions can continue collecting dues from non-members. If Justice Antonin Scalia was still alive it is very likely that the Court would have ruled against unions right to do so.[/toggle]
7. Which party recently quit its coalition with Brazil’s governing Workers’ Party?
[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 Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB). The decision should hurt President Dilma Rousseff’s attempts to stave off impeachment.[/toggle]
8. The Chinese government is investigating the sale of this item, which was out-of-date and improperly stored.
[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”]Vaccines. Chinese officials are looking into a vaccine black market after its ringleaders were arrested. The story has become the biggest public health scandal in China since a tainted milk controversy in 2008.[/toggle]
9. This airline’s union is complaining about an edict that female flight attendants need to wear headscarves when they leave a plan in Tehran.
[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”]Air France. Union representatives say that the demand is an attack on individuality and that it is a religious piece of clothing that goes against France’s tough secular laws. Air France counters that the instruction is not new and applies to current flights to Saudi Arabia.[/toggle]
10. What are the Panama Papers?
[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 term refers to a series of documents that leaked on Sunday from a Panama-based firm that sells offshore shell companies. 11.5 million records show the offshore holdings of twelve current and former world leaders. They also claim that there is corruption and questionable business practices among the world’s upper class of politicians, billionaires, entertainers, and athletes.[/toggle]