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Turkey
Opposition Wins Key Election
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party lost a re-run of the Istanbul mayoral election yesterday. Opposition party candidate Ekrem Imamoglu led by 775,000 votes with 84% voter turnout over the AKP candidate, former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. Imamoglu’s victory ends 25 years of AKP rule in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city and financial capital. Election authorities claimed results from the first mayoral election last March—a loss for AKP—were rigged. President Erdogan has cracked down on rights groups and opposition activists since a failed coup in 2016.
This map depicts Istanbul mayoral election results from the first round in March and the re-run this weekend. Click on the map to expand.
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Graphic Source: Reddit
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India
Bodies of Climbers Recovered
A rescue team has recovered the bodies of seven people from an eight-person team of climbers near Nanda Devi, the second-highest mountain in India. The group, comprising four climbers from Britain, two from the United States, one from Australia, and one from India, had been missing for almost a month. They were close to reaching an unnamed, previously unclimbed peak near Nanda Devi, but contact was lost as the group traversed a ridge between two glaciers at an altitude of 17,650 feet. An avalanche struck the mountain not long after. The paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Force, which found the bodies after a five-hour operation, will continue searching for the eighth climber.
This map depicts where the bodies were found relative to Nanda Devi and base camp. It also shows where the mountain is located in northern India. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: News.com.au
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Pacific Ocean
Clean Up Continues
A floating device designed to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been redeployed into the Pacific Ocean for a second go around. The Ocean Cleanup Project said the 2,000 foot “boom” will return to the Pacific Ocean after four months of repair. Constant waves and wind rendered the original boom broken last fall. New research prompted by environmentalists’ concerns confirms the device will do little to no harm to ocean life. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is estimated to cover 600,000 square miles and is more than twice the size of Texas.
This map depicts the location, size and concentration of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What is the wettest place in the world, receiving an annual rainfall of 11,871 millimeters?
A: Mawsynram, India
Located in the Meghalaya State, the huge amount of rain is caused by the Himalayas Ranges in the north blocking heavy clouds from escaping. In 1985, Mawsynram received about 25,400 millimeters (1,000 inches) of rainfall, the highest annual rainfall ever recorded in the village.
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Q: Andorra, the world’s only co-principality (in which monarchical power is formally divided between two rulers), is situated between which two countries?
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