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French baker Arnaud Delmontel bakes butter croissants in Paris, Dec. 16, 2024. French baker Arnaud Delmontel talks about butter, its price and quality in his bakery in Paris, Dec. 16, 2024.

FILE - A person works at the Amazon warehouse, busy on Prime Day, in Melville, New York, July 11, 2023.

FILE - A workers carries a bag of Syrian currency notes to Syrian central bank, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Dec. 16, 2024.

FILE - This image is released on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, as it is announced that the city of Yokohama is a winner of the C40 Awards 2016 for its efforts to tackle climate change, in the Clean Energy Category. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/AP Images for C40)

Newly named Prime Minister François Bayrou stands after the handover at the prime minister residence, Dec. 13, 2024 in Paris.

FILE - A view of fish farming pond on the Dibamba river, near Douala, Cameroon, June 24, 2021. FILE - Boris Youdom Kamgo, 32, a fish farmer and founder of Agro Worl Goup (AWG) feeds fish in his fish farming pond on the Dibamba river, near Douala, Cameroon, June 24, 2021.

FILE - A TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration,

FILE - Employees work in the battery assembly hall at the BMW Spartanburg plant in Greer, South Carolina, on Oct. 19, 2022. Statistics released on Dec. 6, 2024, show the United States added 227,000 jobs in November.

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, Angolan President Joao Lourenco, U.S. President Joe Biden, DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and Tanzanian Vice President Philip Isdor Mpango pose for a photo in Benguela, Angola, on Dec. 4, 2024.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and French President Emmanuel Macron review an honor guard during a ceremony in Paris on Nov. 28, 2024, as part of Tinubu's state visit to France.