India's Cockroach Protests and Peru's New President: Foreign Policy's Weekly International News Quiz ⁠12%

By Drew Gorman⁠14%

7/31/2026, 10:42:27 AM

Topics: Politics

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 11.3% saturation with 70 hits. Analysis detected 328 faulty-reasoning hits from 621 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 21.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠12% (27,110 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 88.60% of the article peer group.

Odyssey fever is still gripping the world. 
Have you managed to peel yourself away from antiquity to follow along with this week’s headlines? 
Find out with our international news quiz! 
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Email <email> to let me know your thoughts. 
1. 
After last week’s protests, India’s Cockroach Janta Party notched a major win on Saturday. 
What happened? 
The Cockroach movement’s success marks one of the few times Modi has given in to a domestic opponent, FP’s Michael Kugelman writes in South Asia Brief. 
2. 
Why did Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs recall its ambassador to Argentina on Sunday? 
Milei insulted Brazilian government officials. 
3. 
Who did British Prime Minister Andy Burnham welcome on Monday in the first visit by a foreign leader to the United Kingdom since he assumed office? 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky 
Ahead of the meeting, London said it would share with Kyiv intellectual property behind a drone-cloaking system, further bolstering Ukraine’s campaign of drone strikes deep inside Russia. 
As Alexey Kovalev wrote this month, those strikes have exposed more Russians to the war’s consequences. 
4. 
Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president on Tuesday. 
Fujimori has previously expressed interest in joining Trump’s regional initiative to fight transnational crime. 
What is that initiative called? 
Shield of the Americas 
Close, deeply polarized elections signal a future of difficult governance for Latin America’s new right-wing leaders, including Fujimori, Christopher Sabatini wrote last month. 
5. 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Trump at the White House on Tuesday. 
This was the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since when? 
The beginning of the Iran war in late February 
Iran’s regime has turned out to be much more resilient than both Netanyahu and Trump hoped, Assaf Sharon writes. 
6. 
Thousands of people rallied in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday in protest of proposed constitutional changes that could result in what? 
A third presidential term for Félix Tshisekedi 
In pursuit of Congo’s mineral wealth, the Trump administration has remained silent on Tshisekedi’s attempts to secure a third term, FP’s Christina Lu reported in June. 
7. 
What did Russian authorities charge Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging app Telegram, with on Wednesday? 
Aiding terrorism by failing to remove Ukrainian channels 
Moscow’s crackdown on social media is one of the latest signs that Putin is losing control over the narrative of the war in Ukraine, Kovalev wrote in March. 
8. 
UEFA, the European soccer association, agreed on Thursday to boycott any competition run by FIFA following its proposal this week to do what? 
Transfer World Cup ownership stakes to private companies 
FP’s Ravi Agrawal sat down with Times sports and economics journalist Mehreen Khan ahead of this year’s competition to discuss the geopolitics of soccer on FP Live. 
9. 
Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar won the Tour de France on Sunday, tying the record for most titles in the race. 
How many times has Pogacar won? 
(Hint: His first victory was in 2020.) 
Five 
At 27 years old, Pogacar is the youngest of a handful of cyclists to win the tour five times, NBC Sports reports. 
10. 
Singaporean authorities fined a French student $465 on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to a public nuisance charge. 
What did he do? 
Licked a vending machine straw and put it back in the machine 
Prosecutors said the stunt, which the 19-year-old filmed for social media followers, undermined confidence in public hygiene, CNN reports. 
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Drew Gorman is a deputy copy editor at Foreign Policy. 
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Christina Lu

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