Test yourself on the week of July 25: India’s Cockroach movement gets a win, Burnham receives his first foreign leader, and Peru inaugurates a new president.
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1. After last week’s protests, India’s Cockroach Janta Party notched a major win on Saturday. What happened?
The Cockroach movement’s success marks one of the few times Modi has given in to a domestic opponent, FP’s Michael Kugelman writes in South Asia Brief.
2. Why did Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs recall its ambassador to Argentina on Sunday?
Milei’s actions are the latest example of the perils of the recent rise in populist governments, which often sideline traditional diplomacy, Christopher S. Chivvis, Milan Vaishnav, and Rohan Mukherjee argue.
3. Who did British Prime Minister Andy Burnham welcome on Monday in the first visit by a foreign leader to the United Kingdom since he assumed office?
Ahead of the meeting, London said it would share with Kyiv intellectual property behind a drone-cloaking system, further bolstering Ukraine’s campaign of drone strikes deep inside Russia. As Alexey Kovalev wrote this month, those strikes have exposed more Russians to the war’s consequences.
4. Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president on Tuesday. Fujimori has previously expressed interest in joining Trump’s regional initiative to fight transnational crime. What is that initiative called?
Close, deeply polarized elections signal a future of difficult governance for Latin America’s new right-wing leaders, including Fujimori, Christopher Sabatini wrote last month.
5. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Trump at the White House on Tuesday. This was the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since when?
Iran’s regime has turned out to be much more resilient than both Netanyahu and Trump hoped, Assaf Sharon writes.
6. Thousands of people rallied in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday in protest of proposed constitutional changes that could result in what?
In pursuit of Congo’s mineral wealth, the Trump administration has remained silent on Tshisekedi’s attempts to secure a third term, FP’s Christina Lu reported in June.
7. What did Russian authorities charge Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging app Telegram, with on Wednesday?
Moscow’s crackdown on social media is one of the latest signs that Putin is losing control over the narrative of the war in Ukraine, Kovalev wrote in March.
8. UEFA, the European soccer association, agreed on Thursday to boycott any competition run by FIFA following its proposal this week to do what?
FP’s Ravi Agrawal sat down with Times sports and economics journalist Mehreen Khan ahead of this year’s competition to discuss the geopolitics of soccer on FP Live.
9. Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar won the Tour de France on Sunday, tying the record for most titles in the race. How many times has Pogacar won? (Hint: His first victory was in 2020.)
At 27 years old, Pogacar is the youngest of a handful of cyclists to win the tour five times, NBC Sports reports.
10. Singaporean authorities fined a French student $465 on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to a public nuisance charge. What did he do?
Prosecutors said the stunt, which the 19-year-old filmed for social media followers, undermined confidence in public hygiene, CNN reports.
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Drew Gorman is a deputy copy editor at Foreign Policy.
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