Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel asked the president to postpone any planned attack. Israeli and Arab officials fear Iran could retaliate by striking their countries.
Iran’s judiciary said there was no death penalty issued for Erfan Soltani, whose case drew international outcry. Analysts say the government is using fear and intimidation to keep people off the streets.
Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point.
The crane’s collapse, which killed at least two people outside Bangkok, came a day after another crane fell on a train in the northeast, leaving at least 32 people dead.
Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister, is accused by U.S. prosecutors of drug trafficking and is linked to repression at home, yet remains a powerful figure.
Some travelers were able to squeeze out of mangled cars and others were rescued by residents, after the accident in northeastern Thailand. Dozens did not survive.
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