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| This country held its first election since 1990 and released Noble prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi | Myanmar |
| This organization led by Julian Assuange published classified US documents | Wikileaks |
| This Asian country announced it achieved self-sufficiency in uranium production | Iran |
| Popular protest forced Zine al Abidine Ben Ali out of the presidency of what country | Tunisia |
| This country declared independence on July 9th 2011 | South Sudan |
| Hosni Mubarak was forced out of the Presidency of what North African country | Egypt |
| Unrest began in the spring in Libya starting in what city | Benghazi |
| In March 2011 and earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear crisis at what plant in what country | Fukishima-Daiichi/Japan |
| In response to the nuclear crisis in Asia what two European countries announced that they were phasing out nuclear power | Switzerland/Germany |
| Previous to 2011 the worst nuclear accident took place where? | Chernobyl, Ukraine former Soviet Union in 1986 |
| Ali Abdullah Saleh was forced out of the presidency of what Arabian Peninsula country | Yemen |
| Goodluck Jonathan was elected president of what African country | Nigeria |
| This entertainer was elected president of Haiti | Michael Martelly |
| This group of US commandos killed Osama bin Laden in what country | Navy Seals/Abbottabad Pakistan |
| Dominque Strauss Khan was indicted on sexual assault charges in NYC and although the criminal charges were dropped he was forced to resign from what international organization | The International Monetary Fund |
| Ratko Mladic was arrested for overseeing the 1995 Srebrinica Massacre in what country | Bosnia (former Yugoslavia) |
| This democratic governor of Illinois was convicted on corruption charges | Rod Blogovich |
| This news organization was closed in Britain due to a phone hacking scandal | News of the World/Rupert Murdoch |
| This nation's had its worst terrorist attack on Utoya Island | Norway |
| This country was bailed out by the EU to avoid defaulting | Greece |
| The accreditation of US Bonds was downgraded by this organization | Standard and Poors/ US bonds were not downgraded by either Moody's or Fitch |
| Eleven people were killed at an air show accident in | Reno, Nevada |
| The ETA announced it was ending armed conflict against what country | Spain (The ETA had been fighting for Basque autonomy) |
| The US student was acquitted of murder charges by an Italian court | Amanda Knox |
| Saudi Arabia intervened in what other Arab country to save its government during severe demonstrations | Bahrain |
