Summer is right around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere—and so is the World Cup. Have you made sure to keep up with this week’s headlines amid all the excitement?

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Summer is right around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere—and so is the World Cup. Have you made sure to keep up with this week’s headlines amid all the excitement?

1. Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela’s Labour Party won an unprecedented fourth consecutive term in Saturday’s snap elections. Despite the loss, opposition leader Alex Borg celebrated what?

His party’s role in an expected coalition government

The strength of democracy in Malta

His party’s decreased margin of defeat

The new electoral map introduced this year

The snap election was called in April due to Abela’s fear that the war in Iran would erode public confidence in his government, FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports in World Brief.

2. Japan’s defense minister on Sunday rejected accusations that Tokyo had embraced a “new militarism,” an assertion made by which regional neighbor?

China’s delegation to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore over the weekend attempted to stir resistance to Japan’s growing security presence in the region by invoking memories of World War II, FP’s Joseph Rachman writes in Southeast Asia Brief.

3. Why did Iran say........

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