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1. Which party won the most votes in Slovakias early parliamentary elections on Saturday?

The liberal PS party

The populist Smer party

The center-left Hlas party

The conservative KDH party

Smer, which won 22.9 percent of the vote, is led by Robert Fico, a pro-Russian former prime minister who has promised to stop aid to Ukraine. Even with a victory, though, Fico will have to work hard to secure a government, Amanda Coakley wrote last month.

2. In other election news, who won the Maldives presidential election runoff over the weekend?

Mohamed Muizzu, leader of the opposition Peoples National Congress

Incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih

Former Home Minister Umar Naseer

Maldives Reform Movement leader Ahmed Faris Maumoon

he election was, in part, seen as a referendum on great-power competition between China and India, Foreign Policys Michael Kugelman wrote in South Asia Brief last month.

3. The European Union on Tuesday announced an aid package worth some $680 million to which country?

Somalia

Afghanistan

Myanmar

Ethiopia

The pledge came a day before the deadline for renewing an investigation into human rights abuses during Ethiopias recent war in its Tigray region. Kate Hixon and Kehinde A. Togun argued in FP in July that reengagement with Ethiopia should not come at the expense of holding its government to account.

4. Which British government official turned heads on Tuesday with a speech that railed against undocumented immigrants and loose national borders?

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Home Secretary Suella Braverman

Defense Secretary Grant Shapps

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly

Bravermans speech highlights a global turn toward isolationism, a phenomenon explored in a new book that was recently reviewed in FP by Jan-Werner Mller.

5. Kenyan lawmakers on Wednesday said what was required before police could be deployed for a peacekeeping mission in Haiti?

Funding from the United Nations

Advanced weapons from the United States

Approval by Kenyas Parliament

Housing in Port-au-Prince

The pushback from Kenyas political opposition comes after the United Nations approved the deployment of the multinational force, which FPs Alexandra Sharp reports on in World Brief.

6. A teenage Iranian girl is reportedly in a coma after a confrontation with police in the Tehran metro on Wednesday over what?

Violating the hijab law

Tampering with the metro tracks

Throwing rocks at the officers

Protesting freedom of speech restrictions

The encounter follows Irans parliament passing a bill seeking to enforce the mandatory hijab law more strictly, Sina Toossi wrote in September.

7. FIFA announced on Wednesday that it would hold some 2030 mens World Cup games in which three Latin American countries?

Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile

Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia

Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador

Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay

The early games in South America are a nod to the tournaments earliest days, with Uruguays match slated to be played in the stadium that hosted the first-ever World Cup in 1930, FPs Catherine Osborn writes in Latin America Brief.

8. A South Korean report on Thursday said North Korea has stopped the nuclear reactor at its main atomic complex in order to do what?

Modernizing renovations to speed up production

Extract plutonium for weapons production

Investigate recent nuclear waste accidents

Convert it into a uranium enrichment facility

The expected harvesting of plutonium comes alongside a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over weapons production and technology-sharing negotiations, FPs Jack Detsch reported last month.

9. Danish researchers this week announced that Viking buildings possessed what?

Glass windows

Running water

Ventilation systems

Bathrooms

The glass panes can be dated from pre-medieval times, suggesting that Vikings were more advanced than previously thought, The Associated Press reports.

10. A Saudi Arabian athlete broke a Guinness world record when she rowed a boat how many miles across open water in just over 57 minutes?

5 miles

6.2 miles

8.6 miles

12.3 miles

She attempted the record in the Red Sea off the coast of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, UPI reports. The effort was complicated by extreme heat, among other factors.

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