This week featured numerous high-profile elections around the world, including the selection of a new pope. Find out if you followed those headlines and other goings-on with our international news quiz!
1. How many seats in Australia’s House of Representatives did the center-left Labor Party win in Saturday’s election, out of 150 total seats?
Anthony Albanese became the first Australian prime minister to win reelection since 2004 in a race that featured the looming presence of President Donald Trump—but was about far more than the U.S. leader, FP’s Amelia Lester writes.
2. Which party won the most seats in Parliament in Singapore’s election, also on Saturday?
The party, led by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, secured 87 of 97 seats, Salil Tripathi writes.
3. On Monday, the International Court of Justice dismissed Sudan’s case against which country for allegedly enabling genocide by supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces?
The United Nations’ top court said that it “manifestly” lacked the authority to hear the case due to the fact that the UAE has opted out of Article 9 of the Genocide Convention, FP’s Nosmot Gbadamosi reports in Africa Brief.
4. How many targets did India strike in Pakistan on Tuesday in retaliation for a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir last month?
Whether the tension between the neighboring countries spirals into nuclear conflict is an open question, FP’s Sumit Ganguly writes.
5. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a new free trade agreement with which Asian country on Tuesday?
The deal will reportedly ensure that 99 percent of India’s exports to the United Kingdom receive zero tariffs, FP’s Michael Kugelman writes in South Asia Brief.
6. On Tuesday, opposition activists from which Latin American country arrived in the United States after fleeing their home nation?
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the activists had arrived stateside following a “precise operation”—though Caracas has said that they were allowed to leave the country following negotiations, FP’s Catherine Osborn reports in Latin America Brief.
7. Who was selected as the new pope, the leader of the Catholic Church, on Thursday?
Prevost, who was born in Chicago, has spent the bulk of his adult life in Italy and Peru. He shares the late Pope Francis’s vision for “a better kind of politics,” Christopher White writes.
8. Russia celebrated Victory Day—the holiday commemorating its victory in World War II—on Friday. How many foreign leaders were expected to attend the festivities?
The Kremlin is hoping the leaders’ presence will demonstrate to the West that attempts to isolate Russia on the world stage have largely failed, FP’s Alexandra Sharp writes in World Brief.
9. On Sunday—May the 4th—the official White House X account posted an AI-generated image of Trump wielding a lightsaber of what color?
10. Scientists in New Zealand announced on Wednesday that they had observed a snail giving birth. From what part of its body does it lay its eggs?
Each snail takes eight years to reach sexual maturity, after which it lays about five eggs a year, The Associated Press reports.
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