It was a busy week in Washington, from foreign policy to Congressional redistricting and another special election. NPR's Domenico Montanaro and Tamara Keith break down the big news of the week.
The highlights this week: An election in east Malaysia shakes the government, Myanmar grants clemency to thousands of political prisoners, floods once again batter the region, and Jakarta is named the world’s biggest megalopolis.
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Foreign Policy Guru Predicts Trump Strikes on Venezuela Are ‘Imminent’
"You are not going to be putting that kind of military capacity in place, and you're certainly not going to be making that kind of an ultimatum as Trump did unless you're planning on using it."
"President Trump had some very strong views on this election and he made them known," said the AS/COA vice president to the broadcast news outlet.
Iraq’s Nov. 11 elections, the sixth national parliamentary vote under the country’s current constitution, brought forward a mix of old and new parliamentarians. The election featured more than 7,000 candidates competing for 329 seats,
Andrej Babis (middle), former Czech prime minister and leader of ANO party, Karel Havlicek (left) and Alena Schillerova (right) seen during a
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