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It’s Nobel week! See if you kept up with the prizes and other global goings-on by taking our news quiz!
1. A protest march began in Pakistan on Sunday to demand the release of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The march was originally scheduled for late September. Why was it delayed?
Khan called for the protest to be delayed.
Khan had temporarily been moved out of the capital, Islamabad.
The government surged security forces to Islamabad and surrounding regions.
The government offered to negotiate over protesters’ demands.
The march to Islamabad could put pressure on the government to free Khan, who has been imprisoned for more than three years for corruption, FP’s Michael Kugelman writes in South Asia Brief.
2. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday called for snap elections, following his government’s failure to pass emergency measures to tackle what issue?
Rising costs of oil and gas
A lack of affordable housing
Nationwide anti-tourism protests
The elections, set for Nov. 29, will be risky, as Sánchez’s party is trailing in most local opinion polls. But the socialist leader has navigated tricky political waters before, Omar G. Encarnación........
