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Lobbying by banks helped torpedo a major proposal, and a top regulator announced this week that he would step down from a leadership role.

The troops are expected to leave Ivory Coast this month as France, a former colonial power in West Africa, fast loses influence there.

A magnet for cameras, Justin Trudeau was at the center of moments that defined Canada’s image over the last decade.

“Povo no Poder,” or “People in Power,” by the rap star Azagaia, has become the unofficial anthem of the protests over a disputed election.

Few took the president-elect’s combative comments at face value, but they still sent a shudder through a country that the United States has invaded before.

The case, involving an inquiry into a marine’s death, had stoked political tensions long before President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment last month.

Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment.

Wind-whipped wildfire blew through communities of every socioeconomic status and stripe, merging, psychically if not physically, into a kind of mega-catastrophe.

Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision.

Political leaders have shunned the Alternative for Germany. But on his social media platform X, Mr. Musk is pitching the party as mainstream.