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Gabriel Attal, France\u2019s youthful new prime minister, represents President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s renewed push to pass policy reforms and to counter a resurgent far-right. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a landslide re-election of President F\xe9lix Tshisekedi has raised eyebrows\u2014and tempers (7:41). And a look at how \u201cThe Wicker Man\u201d may be the force behind a rise in paganism (15:30).

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