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1. What did Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban call an “act of sabotage” on Sunday following an emergency defense council meeting?

Compromising photos of high-level Hungarian government officials

An infestation of maggots in recent grain imports

The discovery of surveillance drones over Hungarian airspace

Explosives found near a gas pipeline in Serbia

The pipeline carries gas from Russia to Hungary. Ahead of elections this weekend, Orban is pulling out all the stops to ensure his continued rule, John Kampfner argued last month. Orban’s chief opponent alleged that the prime minister was “panic-mongering.”

2. What did U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threaten to target if Iran refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT?

Iranian schools and hospitals

Critical infrastructure

The homes of all Iranian officials

All Iranian nuclear facilities

Trump’s violent rhetoric is central to his wartime messaging and will undermine U.S. foreign-policy objectives in the long term, Gregory A. Daddis argues.

3. Ghana on Monday officially withdrew from the Africa Energies Summit, set to be held next month in London. What reason was given for Accra’s decision?

The summit’s focus on the transition to green energy

The expectation to discuss only private-sector energy policies

Concerns over the exclusion of African professionals

Concerns over the inclusion of junta-led Sahel states

Ghana’s Energy Chamber said the country was not a “spectator” in Africa’s energy industry and that the continent cannot be treated as a “marketplace for attendance” to the exclusion of Africans, FP’s Nosmot Gbadamosi reports in Africa Brief.

4. Taiwanese opposition leader Cheng Li-wun arrived in China on Tuesday ahead of a potential meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. What is the name of Cheng’s party?

Democratic Progressive Party

Taiwan People’s Party

The Kuomintang maintains closer ties to China than the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, which often accuses the former party of acting as a conduit for Chinese interests, FP’s James Palmer writes in China Brief.

5. The United States and Iran agreed to a two-week cease-fire on Tuesday. Which South Asian country spearheaded the negotiations? (Hint: It’s one of Trump’s current favorites.)

With no track record of negotiating the end to complex conflicts, Pakistan’s involvement has surprised many observers, FP’s Michael Kugelman writes in South Asia Brief.

6. Greece announced on Wednesday that, starting next year, the country would roll out a social media ban for minors under what age?

The Greek Parliament is expected to approve the legislation this summer, following similar moves to ban cellphones from schools and encourage the use of parental controls to limit screen time, FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports in World Brief.

7. To facilitate investments in minerals mining, Argentina’s legislature on Thursday approved a bill backed by President Javier Milei that eases protections on what?

Offshore oil drilling

The move follows midterm elections last year that saw Milei’s political movement gain seats in both chambers of the country’s legislature. Some analysts believe that the result was influenced by Trump’s $40 billion bailout package for Buenos Aires, as Oliver Stuenkel and Adrian Feinberg wrote in October.

8. What did Irish demonstrators do on Friday as part of ongoing protests over high fuel prices in the country?

Blocked the presidential residence with wheelbarrows

Painted themselves black to signify being covered in oil

Blocked access to refining and distribution sites

Held prayer vigils in front of the parliament building

Some analysts have compared the energy crisis to the 1970s oil shock, but governments now have fewer tools to navigate severe disruptions, and the heaviest burdens will fall on smaller and less-developed economies, Rabah Arezki argues.

9. Authorities in Squamish, Canada, on Monday urged residents to stay away from a rock face that had been draped with a red Volkswagen Beetle shell with a letter “E” painted on its roof. Though part of a long-running tradition at a nearby university, why did this incident draw criticism?

It is near an Indigenous sacred site.

The Beetle shell was also covered in profane graffiti.

The shell posed a threat to area wildlife.

The shell doubled as a protest of the Iran war.

The Squamish mayor said the area was also popular among hikers and climbers and that the “innocent prank” had affected the community, The Associated Press reports.

10. The first photographs from the Artemis II voyage around the moon were released on Tuesday. One of the shots, titled Earthset, depicts what?

The moon rising over Earth

Earth setting behind the moon

Earth shadowed by a lunar eclipse

Earth appearing to sit beneath the moon

In another image, of a solar eclipse, Saturn and Venus could be glimpsed, the New York Times reports.

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