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Protests in France: Traffic in a number of French cities slowed to a crawl Tuesday as taxi drivers protested Uber and other “non-traditional” car services that they argue hold an unfair advantage against drivers who must pay for costly taxi licenses.

Obama’s executive actions: The president announced a ban on solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in federal prisons in an op-ed that ran in the Tuesday edition of The Washington Post.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty A record-setting blizzard blanketed much of the American East Coast in snow over the weekend, and parts of China have been experiencing weeks of bone-chilling temperatures, freezing rivers and waterfalls.

East Coast digs out: The workweek has begun, but crews are still scrambling to clear roads of the snow from the weekend’s big blizzard. Federal government offices in Washington are closed, as are plenty of schools up and down the coast.

Paul Castelnau / Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / The First World War In his preface to The First World War: Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front, Geoff Dyer writes: “The shock is not the shock of the new so much as the shock of the old made new—and the new made suddenly old.&rdqu

A worker in a factory in Vietnam Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters When the Obama administration finally reached an agreement with 11 other countries on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the president listed improving labor rights in other nations as one of the hallmarks of

The grave of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London Toby Melville / Reuters In many ways it all began with the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko.

Marina Litvinenko, the widow of Alexander Litvinenko, with her son, Anatoly, in London Toby Melville / Reuters A British inquiry into the 2006 death of Alexander Litvinenko has found that the killing of the former Russian spy was “probably approved” by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Russia’s intelligence agency.

Pakistan mourns: The country observed a national day of mourning for the 21 people killed in the militant attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, where students were targeted with automatic weapons.

Afghan policeman keep watch near the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ahmad Masood / Reuters A Taliban suicide bomber struck a van in central Kabul during rush hour Wednesday night, killing seven and wounding dozens of others.