This is the world in brief from The Economist.

Our top stories. Kenya's president, William Rudo, withdrew a controversial finance bill which had aimed to raise more than $2 billion from taxes.

Protests against the legislation rocked the country. more than $2 billion from taxes.

Protests against the legislation rocked the country on Tuesday.

Police reportedly killed at least 22 people and injured scores more.

Protesters set part of Kenya's parliament in Nairobi on fire.

They called on Mr. Rudo to resign.

He described the demonstrations as, quote, treasonous.

America's Supreme Court rejected a bid to limit communications between the federal government

and social media companies.

Republican state leaders accused the Biden administration of violating free speech protections

by pressing firms to take down posts that it said contained misinformation about COVID vaccines

and election fraud.

The court avoided ruling on the substance of the case,

finding instead that the parties did not have legal standing to sue. The Yen fell to

around 160 against the dollar, its weakest level in almost 40 years.

The currency has been falling because of the large gap in interest rates between Japan and America.

The Finance Ministry has spent tens of billions of dollars

this year to boost the yen, but there is little long-term relief in sight. In March, the Bank of Japan

raised rates by only a smidgen.

Amazon's market capitalization reached $2 trillion for the first time after its share

price rose by more than 3% during trading on Wednesday.

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