Welcome to October! It’s been another whirlwind week around the world. Test how closely you followed it all with our international news quiz.
1. Which party received the most votes in Austria’s parliamentary elections over the weekend?
The party’s win follows a series of other far-right victories in German and Dutch elections earlier this year, Paul Hockenos writes.
2. An Israeli airstrike hit the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Monday for the first time since what year?
The unfolding campaign in Lebanon is the fourth time that Israel has invaded the country, FP’s Amy Mackinnon and Christina Lu report.
3. On Monday, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called for his supporters to protest what?
From prison, Khan has stoked his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party with increasingly bellicose, anti-government language, FP’s Michael Kugelman writes in South Asia Brief.
4. Following her inauguration ceremony on Tuesday, new Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that she aims for renewable energy to make up what percentage of the country’s power use by 2030?
Sheinbaum, a climate scientist, hopes to turn around several years of increasing fossil fuel usage under her predecessor, FP’s Catherine Osborn writes in Latin America Brief.
5. A buried bomb believed to date back to World War II exploded underground on Wednesday at an airport in which country?
The bomb appeared to have originally been dropped by the United States, FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports in World Brief. (Thankfully, no one was injured in the incident.)
6. An estimated hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Argentina on Wednesday to protest in favor of a law that would have increased funding for what?
Argentine President Javier Milei vetoed the legislation on Thursday, continuing his austerity measures in a country where the poverty rate surpassed 57 percent in January, Lautaro Grinspan wrote earlier this year.
7. Reports emerged on Thursday suggesting that Kenya had asked which organization to investigate allegations of corruption and governance issues in the country?
Nationwide protests over the summer helped to draw international attention and to Kenya’s precarious governance situation, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy writes.
8. The United Kingdom agreed on Thursday to transfer the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to which Indian Ocean nation?
About 1,500 residents were forcibly displaced from the archipelago’s largest island for a U.K.-U.S. project that turned it into a military base in the mid-1960s, Nitya Labh wrote this spring.
9. On Wednesday, Jimmy Carter became the first former U.S. president to celebrate his 100th birthday. Which other distinction does he hold among the nation’s presidents?
Carter left office in 1980 with a mixed reputation but can count the Salt II Treaty and the Camp David Accords among his foreign-policy achievements, FP’s Stephen M. Walt writes.
10. The Earth received a visitor from space on Sunday: an asteroid that will temporarily orbit the planet like a mini-moon for about two months. Where in the solar system did it come from?
Unfortunately, most amateur astronomers won’t be able to spot the asteroid, which is only about as long as a school bus, according to Scientific American. But sources say that the Earth’s usual moon will be happy to accept your attention instead.
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