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PARIS — Thousands of protesters took to the streets across France on Saturday, responding to a call from a far-left party leader who criticized as a “power grab” the president’s appointment of a conservative new prime minister, Michel Barnier. The protests directly challenged President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to bypass a prime minister from the far-left bloc following a deeply dividing —and divided — legislative election result in July.

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WHO and Africa CDC launch a response plan to the mpox outbreak The Associated PressWhat It’s Like to Respond to Mpox in Africa Right Now TIMEMpox and the dangers of treating some lives as disposable Al Jazeera EnglishDRC receives first donation of 100,000 mpox vaccines to contain outbreak The Guardian