1. Which action occurred on Monday as part of the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas?
Hostages and prisoners were exchanged.
Hamas disarmed and began leaving the Gaza Strip.
Israel allowed unfettered humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
A technocratic government council was appointed.
U.S. President Donald Trump was in Israel that day to address the Knesset and make clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that this cease-fire would last, FP’s Keith Johnson reports.
2. What group toppled Madagascar’s president on Tuesday following weeks of youth-led protests over poverty, power outages, and a lack of opportunity in the country?
The federal police
Generation Z protesters
The Presidential Security Regiment
The military
The military is already indicating that it may follow a now-perfected African coup playbook to delay elections and legitimize its power, FP’s Nosmot Gbadamosi writes in Africa Brief.
3. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Tuesday that he would suspend the country’s much-debated pension reform plan until when?
After President Emmanuel Macron announces his resignation
After the 2027 presidential election
After its retirement age change has been removed
After snap elections called for early 2026
The reform plan was a central plank of Macron’s second-term economic agenda. It could cost him his career, Michele Barbero wrote shortly after the plan’s passage in 2023.
7. What reason did Doctors Without Borders provide on Wednesday for its decision to permanently close its emergency care center in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince?
The arrival of an expanded international security force
An inability to get necessary medical supplies
Surging gang violence
The withdrawal of U.S. funding
The center now joins the more than 60 percent of Port-au-Prince health care facilities that have closed or become nonfunctional in recent years, FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports in World Brief.
8. Which sentence did Bangladeshi prosecutors on Thursday say they were seeking for ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina?
Revocation of citizenship
Death penalty
Thirty years’ imprisonment
Lifelong ban from contesting elections
A special domestic tribunal is trying Hasina on charges of crimes against humanity. Since Hasina’s 2024 ouster, Bangladesh’s democratic aspirations remain unfulfilled, Salil Tripathi wrote in August.
9. In a lawsuit filed Monday, U.S. food manufacturer J.M. Smucker said a new Trader Joe’s product was too similar in design and packaging to its Uncrustables. What is an Uncrustable?
A rebranded Hostess Ding Dong chocolate cake
A meat-filled sandwich snack for dogs
A crustless loaf of bread
A pie-like, crustless sandwich
Smucker said the sandwich crimping and blue box design of the Trader Joe’s product were too similar to Uncrustables, The Associated Press reports.
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