Hundred showed up in New York City and thousands in Washington, D.C. for the rallies, which aim to harness the political power of women, although crowds were noticeably smaller than in previous years. The first marches in 2017 drew hundreds of thousands of people to rallies in cities across the country on the day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated.

Forces loyal to Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar blocked oil exports from the war-ravaged country's main ports Saturday, raising the stakes on the eve of an international summit aimed at bringing peace to the North African nation. The move to cripple the country's main income source was a protest against Turkey's decision to send troops to shore up Haftar's rival, the head of Tripoli's UN-recognised government Fayez al-Sarraj. It comes ahead of a conference in Berlin on Sunday that will see the United Nations try to extract a pledge from world leaders to stop meddling in the Libyan conflict -- be it through supplying troops, weapons or financing.

House Democrats were preparing to outline their case for removing President Donald Trump from office in a legal brief due Saturday, as opposing sides in the impeachment case look ahead to the opening of the historic trial in the Senate. The submission of the legal brief, due by 5 p.m. Saturday, follows the latest revelations in the case against Trump. Democrats on Friday released more information — documents, text messages, audio and photos — turned over by Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Women's Marches from D.C. to Chicago to Los Angeles are being held Saturday. Organizers expect thousands to protest, despite a "march fatigue".

(Bloomberg) -- A lack of political will and understanding is hindering German sovereign wealth and pension funds from investing in the country’s startup and tech scene, the co-founder of GetYourGuide said.“When our company goes public, we will benefit, our employees will benefit and non-European pension funds will benefit,” Tao Tao, who’s also chief operating officer, said in an interview at the Digital Life and Design conference in Munich Saturday. “It would be nice if European pension funds and insurers could also benefit.”In May, the Berlin-based online seller of travel activities received a $484 million investment led by Softbank’s Vision Fund that valued the company at well over 1 billion euros, a person familiar with the matter said at the time. The company has no immediate plans to list on the stock exchange, Tao said.Tao said it was time for a new wave of political leadership in Germany to push for change, and cited France’s President Emmanuel Macron as having taken a progressive view.Macron was set to announce a multibillion-euro pledge by banks and insurers, including Axa SA and Aviva Plc, to invest in France’s technology companies, his office told reporters in September. The French daily La Lettre A said the commitment may amount to 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion) over three years; his office declined to confirm the report at the time.Wealth Hostility Holds Back Silicon Valley-Type Boom in Europe“We’re lacking the right conditions to create an ecosystem,” Tao said in the interview. “We need to increase cooperation, increase investment, and become sovereign in our technology.”GetYourGuide, which employs about 500 people, has sold more than 25 million tours for activities that include shark diving off Cape Town and helicopter rides over Arizona’s Grand Canyon.\--With assistance from Oliver Sachgau.To contact the reporter on this story: Sarah Syed in London at ssyed35@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Giles Turner at gturner35@bloomberg.net, Ros Krasny, Steve GeimannFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.

Abomey-Calavi (Benin) (AFP) - Ambassadors from France and Japan mingled with presidential officials, royalty and schoolchildren as Benin celebrated the return of dozens of colonial-era antique artefacts looted by France more than a century ago. Earlier this year, the Collective of Saint-Germain-des-Pres Antiquarians, a group of specialists based near Paris, managed to acquire them -- with the specific aim of sending them back home to Benin.

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