• The French government plans to make 15 the age threshold of consent to sexual relations after a public outcry over two cases involving 11-year-old girls. [Agence France-Presse]

• Nigeria’s presidential election is next year but there are already calls for President Muhammadu Buhari to stand down from a second term. [The New York Times]

• “You better wake up because mosquitoes never sleep!” That’s the call from loudspeakers in Brazil for yellow fever vaccinations. The country is rushing to contain what could become its first epidemic since 1942. [The New York Times]

• A cyberwar in the Persian Gulf reverberated in the U.S. as a top Republican fund-raiser with business in the United Arab Emirates accused agents for Qatar of hacking into his email. [The New York Times]

• In Jidda, a small group of Saudi women got a chance to do something long banned for women in their country: drive. (It was a course of cones in a parking lot.) [The New York Times]

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