Years of strife ruined the energy sector, battered the currency and strangled growth. The West must ease financial controls to help the economy, experts say.

Allies and opponents alike are calling for him to resign as prime minister.

The authorities say at least 160 children and teenagers may have been victims of human trafficking and other crimes on a farm run by an ultra-Orthodox sect, Lev Tahor.

Officials have said that the death toll in Mayotte, currently at 35, could end up in the thousands. But in the capital, there were no scenes of public mourning and little talk of searches for missing loved ones.

Video showed a car plowing into a large crowd in the city of Magdeburg. The driver was arrested, according to local news reports.

Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.

Pension funds and big investors are pressuring Coca-Cola, Pepsico and others over brutal working conditions in India’s cane fields. Some of the sugar buyers are tiptoeing toward change.

In separate agreements with Nauru, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, Australia is attempting to edge out China’s influence in the region.

A feminist collective, the Amazons of Avignon, has been plastering the walls of the city with testimony from the trial of the 51 men who were convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot rape case.

The incoming president promised “tariffs all the way” unless Europe bought more U.S. oil and gas. European officials have no clear strategy for avoiding a trade war.