This Sunday marks the fall equinox. Test how closely you followed global events from the last week of summer with our international news quiz!
1. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed a controversial constitutional reform into law on Sunday. What part of the government does the reform target?
The federal judiciary was one of the country’s last remaining bulwarks against the outgoing president’s agenda of institutional destruction, Emiliano Polo writes.
2. Thousands of pagers belonging to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah exploded across the country and in parts of Syria on Tuesday and Wednesday. The devices were branded with which company name?
Taiwanese-based Gold Apollo denied manufacturing the devices. The incident has escalated the long-standing conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, but “war is not inevitable,” Daniel Byman writes.
3. An attack carried out by an affiliate of al Qaeda on Tuesday targeted a police training academy and an airport in the capital of which West African nation?
Competing foreign actors’ interventions in Mali have added another dangerous layer to the country’s already complicated security situation, John A. Lechner, Sergey Eledinov, and Adam Sandor write.
4. A Ukrainian drone strike that hit the Russian region of Tver in the early hours of Wednesday morning was so large that it did what?
The seismic strike targeted an alleged weapons warehouse that one Ukrainian security official said was “literally wiped off the face of the Earth,” FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports in World Brief.
5. FBI Director Christopher Wray announced on Wednesday that the U.S. Justice Department had taken down a “botnet” operation conducted by a hacking group from what country?
Washington has ramped up its warnings about foreign cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns ahead of November’s presidential election, FP’s Rishi Iyengar reports.
6. During a press conference on Wednesday, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that he is limited by having “no power” as well as no what?
Guterres, representatives from around the world, and a few intrepid Foreign Policy reporters are gathering in New York City for the 79th session of the U.N. General Assembly, FP’s Amy Mackinnon and Jack Detsch write in Situation Report.
7. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited which region on Thursday to campaign for his party in local elections?
The election will be the territory’s first since Modi’s government stripped Kashmir of its special status in 2019, Anuradha Bhasin writes.
8. Sri Lankans will also head to the polls on Saturday for their first presidential election since the country’s 2022 economic crisis. How many candidates are on the ballot?
The country’s ranked-choice voting system means that it’s possible no candidate will reach the 50 percent threshold required to win, sending the election to a runoff, Amita Arudpragasam writes.
9. A televised debate held on Sunday between mayoral candidates in São Paulo, Brazil, took an unexpected turn when one politician struck a fellow candidate with which object?
The incident occurred after candidate Pablo Marca told one of his competitors, José Luiz Datena, that he was “not man enough” to hit Marca, as Datena had previously threatened. Reuters reports that Datena was expelled from the debate, and Marca received medical attention.
10. An animal that escaped from a zoo in central England last week was located—but not yet recaptured—on Wednesday after an extensive search. What kind of creature is it?
Zookeepers fear that Cinnamon the capybara will flee to a nearby Defense Ministry site, the BBC reports. Foreign Policy was unable to confirm allegations that Cinnamon (or her brother Churro) may be involved in espionage.
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