The civil war has enabled the Islamic State, also known as _, to declare a self-styledĬaliphate in the country’s north, ruled from the militants’ de facto capital, Raqqa.Ħ. Over seven million people inside the country and pushed four million more - half of them children - to seek refuge in other countries, causing a migrant crisis in Europe and the Middle East that dominated The conflict in _ entered its fifth year in March. Credit Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Timesĥ. The left-wing Syriza party won a decisive victory in national elections.ĭestroyed buildings in Homs. 25 and sent a warning to the rest of Europe as _ rejected the harsh economics of austerity on Jan. In September, a federal judge threw out a four-game suspension against the league’s biggest star, New England Patriots quarterback _.Ĥ. championship game were mysteriously deflated after inspection by the refereeīefore kickoff. began investigations into how game balls the New England Patriots provided for the Jan. In June California passed a law requiring schoolchildren to receive vaccinations unless there are medical reasons not to do so.ģ.
Part to the disease’s being spread by children who had not been vaccinated. A January outbreak of _ in California, which began at Disneyland, was attributed in Twoĭays later, the French police killed three terrorists in raids at a printing plant and a kosher supermarket that left the gunmen and four Jewish hostages dead.Ģ. 7, a terrorist attack on the French satirical newspaper _ left 12 people dead. Credit John Macdougall/Agence France-Presse - Getty Imagesġ.
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We will continue to update this quiz as news breaks throughout December.Ī woman held up roses and posters reading “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) during a rally in tribute to the 17 people killed in the terror attacks in France in January.
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Like all Times articles linked from The Learning Network, those articles are free and outside the digital subscription service. Happy holidays!ĭirections: Clicking each blank in this quiz will take you to the original Times source for that entry so you can check your answer. Our regular 10-question Weekly News Quiz will be back on Jan. 12.Īnd if you finish our quiz and feel as if you’re just getting warmed up, feel free to test yourself on the news of 2009,Ģ012, 2013 or 2014 - or see what you remember about the whole first decade of this millennium. We also invite students to try their hands at writing rhymes about the news of 2015 via the Year in Rap contest we’re running with Flocabulary through Jan. If you would like to print the quiz, click “more” in the list on the left of this post to find a “print” option. You can fill in the blanks with your own guesses, or choose, below, from a scrambled list of words that were removed. Say goodbye to 2015 by taking our special news quiz.
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