1. The Indian Foreign Ministry stated on Saturday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping had pledged to strengthen ties in what areas?
Water management cooperation
Defense production
Immigration enforcement
Commercial and cultural cooperation
Xi’s trip to the BRICS summit in New Delhi was brief but signaled the culmination of a thaw in China-India relations, FP’s Michael Kugelman writes in South Asia Brief.
5. Thailand and Cambodia’s foreign ministers delivered their opening statements on Tuesday as part of the countries’ meeting to settle a border dispute concerning what in particular?
The concrete wall in Chanthaburi province
The Gulf of Thailand
The Roneam Daun Sam Wildlife Sanctuary
The Dangrek Mountains
Nationalist fervor has taken hold in both countries in the wake of border clashes that reignited in May 2025. What comes next is hard to predict, Andrew Nachemson wrote last September.
7. Ahead of next month’s election, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree on Thursday that did what?
Opened an investigation into election rival Flávio Bolsonaro
Ordered immediate one-time payments of $1,000 to all Brazilians
Increased the benefits of his welfare program by 15 percent
Suspended gas taxes for 30 days
Neither Lula nor Bolsonaro is likely to solve Brazil’s core issues of anemic long-term growth and entrenched corruption, Adam Goldsmith argues.
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