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Music videos praising the military have proliferated since generals seized power, highlighting the army’s longstanding importance in Niger and popular dissatisfaction with civilian rule.

Also, India’s first solar mission.

The news came just days before the start of the academic year for most children, even though critics say the risks have been known for some time.

After a tumultuous year, the French president is meeting with his opponents in hopes of building bridges. But few seem interested in working with him.

Also, three U.S. Marines died in an air crash in Australia.

In northwestern Syria, a devastating quake six months ago compounded the damage of years of civil war. U.S. lawmakers just visited for the first time in a decade.

The Times tracked several months of Russian state messaging in the Kremlin’s effort to recruit soldiers.

The torrential rain and flooding that threaten Southern California also menaced Baja California, the western Mexico peninsula that is popular with tourists.

Also, the nostalgic craft of miniatures in China.

President Mohamed Bazoum had grown alarmed at military takeovers sweeping across Niger’s neighbors. Then his own soldiers came for him. Weeks later, he remains imprisoned in his home.