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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

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Water taps run dry in South Africa’s largest city

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How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.

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Tricky balance: Supreme Court tries to keep law and politics separate this election year

Our country's nine highest justices say Supreme Court decisions are based solely on how they interpret the Constitution, not on political factors. That can be a tense tightrope this year, with several cases involving Donald Trump, the pending Re...

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Voting in Russia holds no surprises

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Death toll rises and new details emerge from Moscow concert hall terror attack


At least 137 people were killed and hundreds injured in a terror attack on a terror attack on a Moscow concert hall last Friday. A branch of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, but Russian President Vladimir Putin did not mention...

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This week's word in the news: EXTRADITE

DEFINITION:

Hand over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Deputy U.S. Marshals from Colorado flew to Canada this week to extradite a fugitive suspect back to the United States, officials announced Friday.
The Denver Post -- 03/25/2024

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