The Week of November 17, 2019 by CoenM

What MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY saw protests over a plan to raise fuel prices to 15,000 rials for the first 60 liters and 30,000 rials for each additional liter?

What MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY said he would step down from public duties and assist law enforcement with any investigations days after a disastrous interview about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and alleged sexual involvement with underage girls?

What US STATE may want to revisit how they spend their public health money after unveiling the anti-drug slogan "Meth. We're on it."?

What MIDDLE EASTERN PRIME MINISTER called three corruption indictments against him an "attempted coup," while he clings to power in the face of a political deadlock that might see a third parliamentary vote this year?

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa swore in his brother Mahinda as interim prime minister in what ASIAN COUNTRY, where they were instrumental in ending a decades-long insurgency by the Tamil Tigers, though they faced criticism for their methods in doing so?

Tesla unveiled what VEHICLE, with room for six and a 250 mile range, though the unveiling saw its "unbreakable" armor glass break in two demonstrations?

What FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL senior director for Russia and Europe, denied the theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US Presidential election, and noted that EU ambassador Gordon Sondland was "involved in a domestic political errand" regarding Ukraine investigating Joe and Hunter Biden?

The US House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would legalize what DRUG on the federal level, removing it from Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act and allow states to enact their own laws regarding the drug?

What TECH COMPANY filed a lawsuit alleging bias in the awarding of a $10 billion Defense Department cloud computing contract to Microsoft? While many details are being withheld, the bias is thought to be related to the company's owner being a critic of Donald Trump.

Internet stories to the contrary what ANIMAL is not functionally extinct, but is being threatened due to brushfires, which are thought to have killed up to 1000 of the animals and torched wide swaths of its habitat?

A Honduran man was the first foreign asylum seeker sent from the US to what CENTRAL AMERICAN NATION under the "safe third country" program that redirects asylum seekers who cross the US-Mexico border?

Samoa reported an outbreak of what DISEASE, with 1644 suspected cases and 20 deaths among its 200,000 citizens? The World Heath Organization is rushing over 100,000 doses of its vaccine to the island to bolster its immunization program.