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It’s Friday the 13th! Are you feeling lucky about this week’s quiz?
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It’s Friday the 13th! Are you feeling lucky about this week’s quiz?
1. Thailand’s ruling conservative Bhumjaithai Party won the most seats in Sunday’s general election. On the same day, a referendum vote was held to determine what?
Whether to repeal military conscription
Whether same-sex marriage should be legalized
Whether the country’s 2017 constitution should be rewritten
Whether to expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court
The constitutional referendum passed handily, FP’s Joseph Rachman reports in Southeast Asia Brief.
2. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance signed an agreement with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday to proceed with negotiations over what topic?
A civil nuclear energy deal
Critical mineral mining rights
The meeting comes several months after the Trump administration helped broker a framework agreement that could eventually lead to the end of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, which Jeffrey Mankoff wrote about last August.
3. The Chinese Embassy in London on Tuesday criticized the British government for expanding a visa program for which group?
The visa program expansion came as former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, a British national, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, FP’s James Palmer........
