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The U.S. midterms are approaching, and they’re beginning to gobble up airtime. Did you manage to keep track of everything else going on in the world? Find out with our news quiz!

1. What did French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Monday blame for inflaming mass protests sweeping the country?

Immigrants from North Africa

The far-right National Rally party

Far-left groups, notably the France Unbowed party

The cost-of-living crisis

The French people’s belief in the power of the street combined with a centralized government has sparked numerous large-scale protests in recent years, Emile Chabal writes.

2. Israeli police arrested 10 people on Monday as part of an investigation into what?

Recent attacks in the occupied West Bank

An alleged plot to plant a bomb in the Knesset

Allegations of voter intimidation ahead of next week’s election

Hamas’s continued control of parts of Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trailing in the polls ahead of elections later this month. But no other group seems poised to win outright—or have enough votes to smoothly form a coalition government, David E. Rosenberg writes.

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