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Campaigns in some countries have reduced the practice, but it remains widespread in those with high rates of population growth.

Also, President Biden’s annual address and Oscar predictions.

Legislators passed an amendment giving women the “guaranteed freedom” to end their pregnancies, which experts called a global first.

A small number of trucks carrying desperately needed food headed for Gaza City, but at least some were swarmed and looted by people along the way.

For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally compelled them to make major shifts to their products and businesses.

Although the funeral of Aleksei Navalny seemed to underline Vladimir Putin’s dominance of Russia, it was also a day when pent-up dissent, and optimism, re-emerged, if only briefly.

Plus Donald Trump’s delay tactics paid off.

The vote by lawmakers comes after supporters of the measure in France were galvanized by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

An epidemic of auto thefts in Canada’s largest city has left many residents exasperated, with some getting creative about deterrence efforts, such as installing bollards in home driveways.

A fire that killed at least 10 people left many refugees from Ukraine without homes and others scrambling to rebuild their lives.