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Bulgaria
Former President Wins Parliament
Rumen Radev, a former fighter pilot and president of Bulgaria, is set to become Prime Minister after his Progressive Bulgaria party won an absolute majority of seats in the country’s parliament in elections held on April 19. With 44.7% of the popular vote, Progressive Bulgaria secured 135 out of 240 seats in the eighth general election held in the last five years. Radev campaigned on an anti-corruption platform similar to Peter Magyar’s campaign that brought the Tisza party to power in Hungary a few weeks ago, though Radev’s positions on support for Ukraine and engagement with Russia are closer to former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Radev’s will be the first Bulgarian government since 2001 to hold an outright one-party majority.
This map depicts the resuts of the most recent Bulgarian general election on April 19, with the new Progressive Bulgaria party winning all the electoral districts colored green. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Kapital
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Mexico
Gunman at Teotihuacan Pyramids
A gunman killed one Canadian tourist, wounded several others, then killed himself at Mexico’s Teotihuacan pyramids, located 31 miles (50 km) northeast of Mexico City. The shooting took place on Monday, shortly after 11:30 a.m. local time when dozens were touring the Pyramid of the Moon. Local authorities said the 13 people wounded included six Americans, three Colombians, one Russian, two Brazilians, and one Canadian. Some of the wounded were shot while others were wounded when they fell from the pyramid while attempting to flee. The Teotihuacan pyramids, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are a series of massive structures built by three different ancient civilizations. They are one of Mexico’s biggest tourist destinations, and last year they were visited by more than 1.8 million international tourists. Authorities confirmed the gunman, a citizen of Mexico, was the sole assailant.
This map depicts the site of the mass shooting at the Teotihuacan pyramids near Mexico City. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: NPR
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Mars
Evidence for Ancient Ocean
A “bathtub ring” on Mars suggests that an ancient ocean once covered about one-third of the planet and likely persisted for millions of years. In a recent study published in Nature, researchers identified a relatively flat region in Mars’ northern hemisphere that resembles that of a shoreline, supporting the idea of the presence of a past ocean. On Earth, land and ocean features follow a clear sequence from land to deep sea, beginning with rivers and deltas and extending offshore through the continental shelf into the deep ocean. Mars shows a similar pattern, with valley networks, canyons, river deposits, some deltas, and possible ancient shorelines. The current evidence indicates this ocean would have existed around 3 billion years ago.
This map depicts Earth and Mars landscapes, showing that both have similar features like rivers and deltas and elevation patterns. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What country has the world’s highest number of freshwater lakes?
A: Canada
Canada has the most lakes of any country, numbering 879,800. This is more lakes than all other countries combined! In fact, Canada contains about 62% of the world’s 1.42 million lakes. Of this number, Canada boasts 563 large freshwater lakes, and shares four of the five Great Lakes with the United States, which contain 18% of the world’s fresh water. Almost 9% (344,080 square miles [(891,163 sq km]) of Canada’s total area is covered by freshwater. Most of Canada’s freshwater drains to the north, away from the 85 per cent of the population that lives within 186 miles (300 km) of the southern border. This makes harnessing and managing its water resources a significant challenge, both nationally and within individual provinces and territories.
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Q: What body of water is home to the longest sea beach in the world?
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