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With less than a month until the Winter Games in northern Italy, builders have yet to complete a major arena.

A backlash over a rant against Ukrainian officials has raised questions about Eastern Europe’s welcome of Russian dissidents.

Two conversations this week confirmed that President Trump backs the remnants of Nicolás Maduro’s regime over the Venezuelan opposition seeking to hold elections.

A court handed down five years in prison to former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is facing multiple trials stemming from his short-lived imposition of martial law.

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Iran’s representative denied the country had killed protesters, as the U.S. ambassador said President Trump had made clear “all options are on the table” to stop the killing.

In her State of the Union address, Delcy Rodríguez echoed her predecessors’ fiery rhetoric but tried to hew to President Trump’s agenda.

A high-powered meeting in Washington on Wednesday ended in an impasse, leaving Greenlanders fearful of what comes next.

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.

Technical failures at polling places caused major disruptions, and the opposition has warned of protests and government vote rigging.

The Cubans had served as part of the security detail of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s ousted president.

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.

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 leader of Britain’s Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, expelled Robert Jenrick for “plotting in secret” to defect from and damage the party. He later confirmed he was joining Reform U.K.

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.

The Trump administration has signed $11 billion in agreements with African nations, in deals tied to foreign policy goals.

President Trump has said that “help is on the way” for Iranian protesters. Amid reports that thousands of the protesters have been killed, our national security correspondent David E. Sanger describes what some of Mr. Trump’s options might be.

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