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1. Why did Burundi’s government recently expel 1,500 Rwandans?
[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”]Burundi accuses Rwanda of aiding rebels in its territory, thereby justifying the expulsion. The two nations have strained relations, made worse by violence that Burundi has experienced since President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would seek a third term last April.[/toggle]
2. How long does Venezuela’s existing state of emergency last?
[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”]Sixty days. The state of emergency will give Venezuelan security forces and the military enhanced powers. The move was criticized by the country’s political opposition, which claims it is a move to silence dissent of President Nicolas Maduro’s regime.[/toggle]
3. Why is Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald in hot water?
[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”]McDonald was criticized for comparing veterans waiting for healthcare to a Disney trip. The comments were made at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Monday and were quickly criticized by veterans groups. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that the comments showed how the Obama administration was out of touch with veterans issues.[/toggle]
4. Who is Marcel Lehel Lazar?
[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 Romanian hacker that has made headlines in recent weeks for claiming that he hacked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server. Lazar claims that he breached Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal’s AOL account and then used that as a launching point for attacking her server.[/toggle]
5. Israeli authorities recently allowed these supplies to once again enter the Gaza Strip.
[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”]Building supplies. The suspension had existed for more than a year, with Israel enforcing the prohibition since April, which is when it accused Gaza’s Economic Ministry of diverting supplies from rebuilding private citizens’ homes. Those homes were destroyed in a brief war Israeli forces had with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip in 2014.[/toggle]
6. South Africa’s top prosecutor recently announced that he wants to reopen a case concerning President Jacob Zuma. What is the focal point of this case?
[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”]Corruption. National Prosecuting Authority head Shaun Abrahams announced yesterday that he wants to look into 2007 accusations against Zuma, which include 783 charges of fraud, corruption, and racketeering.[/toggle]
7. What did Iran, Afghanistan, and India recently agree to?
[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”]All three nations agreed to a transport corridor that will link the Iranian port of Chabahar to Afghanistan. India has agreed to partially develop the port. The route will circumvent Pakistan, which has strained ties with India and Afghanistan.[/toggle]
8. Why did the Supreme Court recently void the death penalty sentence of Timothy Tyrone Foster?
[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 Supreme Court decided by a 7-1 margin that prosecutors of Foster’s case – he was previously convicted on murder charges in 1987 – intentionally struck African-Americans from the jury pool, thereby hindering Foster’s due process rights. The Supreme Court ruled in the 1986 case of Batson v. Kentucky that prosecutors cannot strike jurors on account of race.[/toggle]
9. The U.S. recently lifted its arms ban with this 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”]Vietnam. The U.S. announced the move on Monday. The move is part of President Obama’s “rebalance” of American foreign policy toward Asia and U.S. policymakers see Vietnam as a valuable ally for countering China in the region. President Obama said that the lifting of the ban was contingent on Vietnam respecting human rights.[/toggle]
10. Who won Austria’s recent presidential election?
[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”]Alexander Van der Bellen. Van der Bellen narrowly won the runoff election over far-right candidate Norbert Hofer, capturing 50.3% of the vote to Hofer’s 49.7%. Van der Bellen campaigned as an independent, but he was financially backed by the Green Party. Hofer would have been Europe’s first far-right head of state had he been elected.[/toggle]