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1. Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted the final stage of the La Vuelta cycling race in Spain on Sunday, throwing barriers on the road and clashing with police near the finish line. What action did Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez call for the next day?
Israel’s strike on Qatar last week underscores its commitment to continued war, rather than to negotiating a cease-fire, Daniel Byman argues.
2. White House officials said on Monday that China had agreed to a framework deal to transfer ownership of which popular Chinese app to a U.S. company?
Despite the announcement, the deal is far from certain, FP’s James Palmer writes in China Brief.
3. The United States said on Monday that Colombia had “failed demonstrably” over the past year to do what?
The decertification was issued with a waiver so as not to strip Bogotá of U.S. aid and comes as drug consumption continues to climb globally, FP’s Catherine Osborn reports in Latin America Brief.
4. Malawi’s presidential election on Tuesday was a rematch between incumbent President Lazarus Chakwera and former President Peter Mutharika. Their previous contest, in 2020, was itself a redo of a vote the previous year. What led to 2019’s vote being repeated?
The African country faces a stagnant economy, fuel shortages, and rising inflation, FP’s Nosmot Gbadamosi reports in Africa Brief.
5. Ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second state visit to the United Kingdom on Tuesday, police arrested four people over an image that they projected on a tower at Windsor Castle. What did it depict?
The visit came just after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer dismissed the U.K.’s ambassador to the United States over his past friendly relationship to Epstein, Andrew Connelly wrote last week.
6. Saudi Arabia struck a defense pact with a nuclear-armed state on Wednesday, in a seeming nod to Israel’s recent airstrike on Qatar. With which country did Riyadh sign the agreement?
The deal commits the two powers to defend each other if one is attacked, FP’s John Haltiwanger and Rishi Iyengar write in Situation Report.
7. Hundreds of thousands protested in France on Thursday in opposition to a proposed national budget that would include steep austerity measures. Which of the following was not one of the demands that the demonstrators made?
Prominent labor unions and high school students alike came out in force to protest the cuts and demand their reversal under the government of new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports in World Brief.
8. The U.N. Security Council was expected to vote on Friday on whether to reimpose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. Those sanctions, referred to as “snapback sanctions,” were included in the original Iran nuclear deal. When was that deal signed?
Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal in 2018. The vote on snapback sanctions comes after Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency agreed to a new “framework agreement,” FP’s Keith Johnson reports.
9. Actor and director Robert Redford died on Tuesday at the age of 89. A Hollywood icon, Redford won an Oscar for best director at the 53rd Academy Awards in 1981. For which film did he receive the award?
Despite his distaste for Hollywood, the magnetic Redford was widely admired for his on-screen talent and his personal politics, particularly his concern over environmental issues, the New York Times reports.
10. Jerry Greenfield, the co-founder of U.S. ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s, announced his decision to resign from the company on Tuesday. What reason did he give?
Greenfield took issue with owners Unilever as well as Magnum Ice Cream Co., which he said had “muzzled” Ben & Jerry’s noted social activism, NBC News reports.
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