The G-20 summit and COP29 both wrapped up this week. Test if you can wrap your mind around the week’s events with our international news quiz!
1. What percentage of voters in Gabon approved a new draft constitution in a referendum over the weekend, according to preliminary results?
The new charter ostensibly paves a path toward civilian rule following the country’s August 2023 coup, FP’s Nosmot Gbadamosi writes in Africa Brief.
2. On Sunday, U.S. President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to do what?
Biden will leave behind a complicated legacy on Ukraine aid—one that has been marked by a pattern of deliberation and hesitation, FP’s Amy Mackinnon writes in Situation Report.
3. Between Sunday and Monday, two undersea telecommunications cables were severed in which body of water?
The incident has been allegedly linked to a Chinese merchant ship that the Danish Navy later surrounded, FP’s Elisabeth Braw writes.
4. Which country was the only member of the U.N. Security Council on Monday to vote against a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Sudan?
Institutional paralysis has damaged trust in the United Nations and impeded its ability to react to several of the world’s ongoing crises, J. Alex Tarquinio wrote in April.
5. On Tuesday, Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister to visit Guyana since which year?
Some 40 percent of Guyanese citizens are of Indian descent—a legacy of the two nations’ shared history of British colonialism, FP’s Catherine Osborn writes in Latin America Brief.
6. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the New Zealand Parliament in Wellington on Tuesday to protest a controversial bill that would do what?
The treaty is the legal basis for many of the rights achieved by the Maori; the bill seeking to upend it is unlikely to pass, FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports in World Brief.
7. Schools in several areas of Pakistan’s Punjab province reopened on Wednesday after weeks of closures due to what?
Pakistan and India have both faced particularly bad smog levels in recent months—and pointed fingers at each other as a result, FP’s Michael Kugelman writes in South Asia Brief.
8. Brazilian authorities announced on Thursday that they were recommending criminal charges against which former president for alleged involvement in plotting a coup?
At least 78 leaders in democratic or semi-democratic countries have faced criminal charges since the year 2000, former FP interns Ashley Ahn and Brawley Benson wrote last year.
9. Chinese President Xi Jinping made a short visit to which African nation on Thursday?
A Chinese company recently chose Morocco to build a massive factory to produce batteries for electric vehicles—an industry where China’s dominance is just beginning, FP’s Howard W. French writes.
10. Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s sculpture consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold at an auction this week for what price?
If the idea of displaying a rotting fruit doesn’t a-peel to the new owners, the piece comes with instructions to guide them through replacing the banana, the New York Times reports.
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