The Week of March 4, 2018 by CoenM

What EUROPEAN COUNTRY saw the populist Five Star Movement win the most votes in parliamentary elections, but not enough to rule without a coalition partner?

The USS Carl Vinson became the fist US aircraft carrier to visit what COUNTRY since 1975, doing so to increase visibility in and around the South China Sea?

Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous dossier of negative information about Donald Trump, claimed that a senior Russian official used "unspecified channels" to request that what FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE not be named Secretary of State, asking instead for someone more likely to reduce or remove sanctions levied due to the annexation of Crimea?

An expedition financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen discovered the wreckage of what AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER, scuttled after sustaining heavy damage during the Battle of the Coral Sea?

What RESTAURANT CHAIN announced it would start using fresh beef in roughly 14,000 of its US locations by June, citing the faster cooking time of fresh versus frozen beef and changing consumer tastes for the change?

The American College of Physicians surprised other medical groups by calling for a less stringent A1C goal for people with what DISEASE, saying that the risks from being overly aggressive in lowering A1C were as important as those from having a too high A1C?

The White House announced that Donald Trump will meet in May with what WORLD LEADER, who invited Trump to talks regarding denuclearization?

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, the president of what COUNTRY and Africa's only female head of state, said she would step down after festivities marking the country's 50th anniversary due to an ongoing scandal involving her use of charitable donations to purchase personal items?

What COUNTRY deployed special military units to address possible nerve agent contamination of public spaces after the poisoning of former Soviet military officer turned spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, reminiscent of the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko?

In a speech to law enforcement officers in California, Attorney General Jeff Sessions railed against ways the state "directly and adversely impact the work of our federal officers," specifically mentioning what MAYOR, whose warning to constituents about an impending ICE raid Sessions claimed impeded 800 arrests?

Name EITHER PERSON whose path to canonization was cleared by Pope Francis this week, one a former pope who finalized the reforms of Vatican II while confirming the church's stance against artificial conception, the other a Salvadoran archbishop assassinated in 1980 by a right-wing death squad?

The US State Department issued a ban on government employees and a warning for tourists visiting what MEXICAN RESORT CITY after two incidents on local ferries involving explosives (including one blast that injured 25)?