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Europeans Get Ready to Evacuate Niger Amid Risks of Wider Conflict

As France prepared to evacuate European citizens, Burkina Faso and Mali said they would take any move by other West African nations to reinstate the president as a “declaration of war.”

Venice Faces an Unwelcome Honor: Joining the Endangered Places List

The United Nations’ culture agency, UNESCO, proposed to include Venice and its lagoon on its World Heritage in Danger list. It said the city had not made enough progress in preventing damage from mass tourism, climate change and development projects.

Deadly Protests in Senegal as Opposition Party Is Dissolved and Leader Detained

Senegal’s government has dissolved the country’s main opposition party and detained its leader on charges of fomenting insurrection, setting off a new round of protests in which two people were killed on Monday.

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