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.

"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."

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.

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,

The Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Dr Sam Amadi, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s ambassadorial nominations, describing them as a political reward system driven by loyalty and payback rather than merit or strategic foreign policy direction.