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This country is the world's leading producer and exporter of natural gas.
Workers at this popular coffee chain are currently on strike at 65 stores across the US. However, this company, which is based in Seattle, has more than 10,000 locations in the US alone.
What is Starbucks?
Arabic has significantly influenced languages throughout the world. One sign of that influence is the word maydan, meaning public square, which is in common usage in many countries, including this one, where the Euromaidan protests happened in 2013. Euromaidan was a series of pro-European demonstrations which began in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, which is in Kyiv, the capital of this country.
What is Ukraine?
This country is the global leader in the ongoing solar revolution. According to some estimates, this country controls more than 80% of the world's solar supply chains and installed almost 100 solar panels every second in May of this year.
What is the People's Republic of China?
What is the Ohio State University?
The Canadian company TC Energy abandoned this pipeline project in 2021 after over a decade of protests led by Indigenous groups.
What is the Keystone XL Pipeline?
In 1921, coal miners in this US state took part in the largest armed uprising since the Civil War. Called the Battle of Blair Mountain, it occurred when mine bosses in this Appalachian state attempted to violently break a union strike and called in private guns, local law enforcement, and eventually the US military.
What is West Virginia?
New York City's Penn Station was demolished between 1963 and 1966 to make way for this stadium, which is now home to the New York Knicks and the New York Liberty
What is Madison Square Garden?
The Trump administration has extrajudicially killed more than 80 people in the Caribbean since September, claiming without proof that they were transporting drugs from this country. The administration has also openly threatened war against this country, seemingly with the goal of toppling Nicolás Maduro, its president.
What is Venezuela?
What is the Giza pyramid complex, Egypt?
The world's largest oil refinery is operated by the Ambani-owned Reliance Industries at Jamnagar in this Indian state. Jamnagar is also home to India's second largest oil refinery, which is partially owned by Rosneft, the state-owned Russian fossil fuel giant.
What is Gujurat?
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England, textile workers who revolted against the introduction of machines to their trade were called this name. Over time, this name has come to mean opposition to any form of new technology.
What is a Luddite?
This city square is named after the entrance gate to the Forbidden City, which it sits in front of. In 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People's Republic of China here, and in 1989, the Chinese government violently suppressed student protesters here.
What is Tiananmen Square?
So-called 'gen Z' protests have erupted throughout Africa and Asia, especially in South Asia, where governments in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and this country have been toppled. Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of this country was forced to flee, after which she was replaced by Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus.
What is Bangladesh?
What is Chicago, USA?
The area between these two cities on the banks of the Mississippi River is often called "Cancer Alley" due to the environmental problems caused by the more than 200 petrochemical plants and refineries in there. The residents of the area, most of them Black, are at higher risk of fetal issues, cancer, and numerous health issues due to the air, water, and metals pollution caused by the fossil fuels industry.
What are Baton Rouge and New Orleans?
This 1911 industrial disaster was the deadliest in New York City's history, killing 146 garment factory workers. Much of modern American labor safety bureaucracy was created in response, especially in the state of New York, which created some of the first modern labor safety laws.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
The Piazza San Marco, the main square of this city, was allegedly called the "drawing room of Europe" by Napoleon. It sits in front of St. Mark's Basilica and the Doge's Palace, both built in this city's signature gothic style
What is Venice?
The war in Sudan worsened last month when the paramilitary group RSF took the city of Al Fasher, in this region. Between 2003 and 2005, the RSF's precursor, the Janjaweed, committed a genocide in this region, killing at least 200,000 civilians.
What is Darfur?
What is Paris, France?
In 2023, a fifth of the world's liquefied natural gas and a quarter of the world's oil passed through this area. As one of the largest strategic chokepoints in the world, it has repeatedly been the center of tensions, especially between Iran and the US. The Iranian city of Bandar Abbas sits to the north of this strait, and the UAE lies to the south.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
This group came to power in Russia in 1917 following the October Revolution, which began in what was then called Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). Initially led by Vladimir Lenin, it was later led and renamed by Stalin.
Who were the Bolsheviks?
This square in Cairo, sometimes called Martyr Square, has a long history of being the focal point of protests and demonstrations. During the Arab Spring, it was the center of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
What is Tahrir Square?
COP30, the 30th session of the UN Climate Change Conference, is taking place in this city in Brazil. Until the conference ends tomorrow, this city is the temporary capital of Brazil.
What is Belém?
What is Singapore?