At least 79 people have died in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo as a result of an unknown sickness exhibiting flu-like symptoms. French Prime Minister Michel Barnier will resign on Thursday after far-right and left-wing lawmakers voted to destabilise his administration, plunging the eurozone’s second-largest economy deeper into political turmoil. Mexican security officers have seized more than a tonne of fentanyl tablets in what officials term the country’s largest seizure of the synthetic opioid.
