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In the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s fall in Syria, rescuers have ended the hunt for people in torture chambers. Nour AlAli explains https://trib.al/0nVhUDT

🇬🇭 Ghana voted ex-President John Mahama back into power, handing him a strong mandate to tackle inflation. But his honeymoon period could be short, as Jennifer Zabasajja explains https://bloom.bg/4gu6EZW

Years of war had displaced more than 10 million Syrians and caused its GDP to fall 90%.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, two girl-centric movies about female empowerment — one starring an animated Polynesian teenager and the other a bunch of singing witches — crushed at the box office. Disney's Moana 2 had the biggest Thanksgiving Day opening in history. Universal Pictures’ Wicked, which debuted the week prior, set a record for a Broadway-to-screen adaptation. Together, they led the holiday stretch to its best numbers ever. And it was women who drove the results. Moana’s audience was two-thirds female, while Wicked’s opening weekend topped that at 75%. The election might have been won by the manosphere, a collection of “anti-woke” influencers who extoll traditional gender norms and hypermasculinity. But the Box Office results were a reminder that girl culture is still driving large swaths of the economy. And expect demand for it to build during a second Trump administration. Companies should pay attention to a female audience looking for ways to immerse itself in art and entertainment that embraces overtly feminist themes and takes seriously the complexities of being a girl and a woman — precisely because the political sphere will not. My latest for Bloomberg Opinion on why you can keep you manosphere; I'll be in the girl economy.

Microsoft's new data center design will obviate the need for fresh water to cool the facilities' servers and chips.

A wildfire in Malibu, California, tripled in size over the course of an hour early Tuesday morning, spurring evacuation orders, forcing schools to shut and closing a segment of the Pacific Coast Highway https://trib.al/gmHO2ve

New research shows that the path for women to become CEO remains “unbelievably narrow” across British corporations.

Assad’s fall in Syria has plunged the Middle East into uncertainty. In this Live Q&A series, we're answering questions about the foreign policy implications of Trump’s second term. 🎧 Tune in on December 11 at 9am ET: https://trib.al/4gPmR11

Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser said geopolitics is going to be the "biggest shift in the world of finance," and a "big differentiator" alongside innovations in technology and the green transition. https://trib.al/LI3Fw44

"What I won’t be after in this space is something which you can’t scale." Man Group is open to further acquisitions and sees “cracking opportunity” in the fast-growing credit space, says CEO Robyn Grew. https://trib.al/HRew3f5