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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to this law, setting the stage for oral arguments by March and a decision by late June 2012
What is Health Care Bill
100
An oil windfall since the main export pipeline began operations for Azerbaijan in 2006 has transformed this unloved Soviet city into a glitzy capital, often with locals evicted from their houses. The oil money has entrenched an autocratic and corrupt political system that is resistant to change.
What is Baku
100
Taking part in their only televised debate before the general election on November 20th; Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba of the ruling Socialists went on the attack against Mariano Rajoy, leader of the opposition People’s Party, but failed to land a blow. Mr Rajoy looks set for a clear election victory as prime minister of this nation.
What is Spain
100
In Nicaragua , helped by a strong economy, he was re-elected as president.
Who is Daniel Ortega
100
The United Kingdom stated that they are willing to use these weapons, if necessary, for protection at the 2012 Olympic games, in London.
What are Surface to air Missles
200
Police in this city cleared protesters from their tent encampment on Monday. City officials ordered the dispersal after a killing at the encampment last week.
What is Oakland, CA.
200
NYT: Its native population, at 225,000, wouldn't fill Cairo's bigger neighborhoods. But for a country that inspires equal parts irritation and admiration, here is its resume: It has proved decisive in isolating Syria, helped topple Libya, was a mediator in Yemen, and counts Tunisia's most powerful figure as a friend.
What is Qatar
200
The New York Times recently said of him: "Italy's new prime minister, is a widely respected and well-connected economist, but he faces a daunting task"
Who is Mario Monti
200
“WHAT awful memories! What corpses!…What dramas, often bloody, we have known!” So ruminated Le Nouvelliste, a newspaper in this nation, over a government plan unveiled this week to restore the banned army.
What is Haiti
200
killed scores of people in a series of attacks mostly in the town of Damaturu in Nigeria’s north-east. gunmen of this Islamist sect also shot a police inspector.
What is Boko Haram
300
In a fight with California based Facebook, this British Author won a fight to have his real name used on facebook. Facebook originally thought it was a fake, and forced him to change his name.
Who is British-Indian author Salman Rushdie.
300
A court convicted 31 people for their part in the massacre of 33 Muslims in 2002. The victims were trapped by a mob in a burning house during some of the worst rioting since this nation's independence
What is India
300
Germany was recently shaken by a spat of murders by the right-wing Neo Nazis. In a report detailing their origins and presence, they were found to stem from Eastern Germany, namely this state
What is Saxony
300
After leading the group since its founder died of a heart attack in 2008, The Colombian army killed this man, the leader of the FARC guerrillas.
What is Alfonso Cano
300
In a presidential run-off Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the incumbent, was poised to be declared the winner. The election was marred by violence and turnout low after William Tubman, her opponent, urged his supporters to boycott the poll over allegations of electoral fraud. Another tumultuous week in this African Nation.
What is Liberia
400
The fund raising operation of John C. Liu, NYC's BLANK and a possible mayoral candidate, is under federal investigation.
What is City Comptroller
400
Despite a proposed peace deal drafted by the Arab League, at least 60 people have been killed in Syria this past week. The UN, however, estimates that since March many more have been killed, more precisely this number.
What is 3,500 people
400
In a court in this country, Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to the gun and bomb attacks that killed 77, many of them teenagers, also asked in court today to be allowed to speak to relatives of the victims. That request was denied.
What is Norway
400
First, the (relatively) good news: this state, home of the murder capital Ciudad Juárez, has clocked up 1,468 homicides so far this year—sickening, of course, but a substantial improvement on the 3,185 killings in all of 2010. Sinaloa, the next most violent state, has fallen from 2,028 killings in 2010 to 1,035 this year. And Baja California fell from 315 to 101. If present trends continue, each of these states should end the year with lower totals than last, for the first time since Mexico began its crackdown in 2007.
What is Chihuahua
400
Growing violence along the border between Sudan and South Sudan caused this major humanitarian aid group to withdraw over the weekend.
What is the British humanitarian agency, Oxfam.
500
A major push by advocacy groups could bring a decision within a year to stop lab experiments on these subjects, deemed as cruel and unnecessary.
What are Chimpanzees.
500
Lee-Myung Bak, the South Korean leader says of Obama: he thinks that helped the two presidents develop a sense of camaraderie and allowed them to talk on a more personal level about many issues. That, perhaps, is one of the reasons why many people used the terms and "best friend" and "This term" to describe the relationship.
What is Bromance
500
On Tuesday the Sejm (parliament) swore in not only an openly gay MP, Robert Biedroń, but also apparently the world's only transsexual lawmaker, Anna Grodzka (the pair are pictured above). Both are members of the Palikot movement of Janusz Palikot, a businessman. A first for this nation.
What is Poland
500
More than 3,000 police and soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers raced into this, Brazil's biggest slum before dawn Sunday, quickly gaining control of a shantytown ruled for decades by a heavily armed drug gang.
What is Rochina
500
AT FIRST it sounded as if the disciplinary hearings of this ruling party against Julius Malema, firebrand leader of the party's youth wing, were heading for another cop-out. Found guilty of deliberately barging into a meeting of senior party officials, including President Jacob Zuma, he and four other Youth League leaders were suspended from the party for two years (cue loud gasps from the media). But, Derek Hanekom, chairman of this party's national disciplinary committee, continued, this sentence would in its turn be suspended for three years.
What is African National Congress
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