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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman and US President Donald Trump in November 2025.
Photographer: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty ImagesWelcome to the weekend.
The foreign minister of a European country on Wednesday accused the US and Israel of violating international law in their attack on Iran — just one month after the same country denounced the US seizure of Nicolás Maduro. Which country is it? Find out with this week’s Pointed quiz.