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Clad in florals and puffing on a cigarette, Tânia Maria has captivated audiences with a striking, if brief, performance in “The Secret Agent,” Brazil’s latest Oscar nominee.

The initiative is the latest example of the president’s dismantling the post-World War II international system and building a new one, with himself at the center.

The Kremlin leader said he will discuss the possibility today with Trump administration envoys in Moscow.

The killings happened on a day when Australians were honoring the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre, and just after gun laws were tightened.

After a crackdown that killed thousands, Iran’s prosecutor general said on Wednesday that “the sedition is over now,” vowing to punish those responsible for the protests.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California said the Trump administration had denied him entry to an American venue at the World Economic Forum. It’s not clear if the administration was responsible.

Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, were expected in Moscow as Mr. Witkoff expressed optimism over a plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

After assailing Europe in a long speech at Davos, the president said he had won an agreement on the future of the Arctic territory.

For decades, leaders have gathered in Davos to discuss a shared economic and political future. On Wednesday, President Trump turned the forum into a bracing clash between his worldview and theirs.

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against his family’s rule.

A lot of confusion was swirling in Denmark and Greenland after President Trump’s bombshell of a post on social media.

The U.S. military said it had transferred 150 Islamic State detainees from northeastern Syria to Iraq and could eventually move as many as 7,000, as the Syrian government assumes control of the region from Kurdish-led forces.

A majority of those surveyed said they support the intervention, suggesting a shift from ideology to pragmatism, at least for now.

Stocks in the U.S. stabilized on Wednesday after an earlier slump had spilled into markets in Asia and Europe, ending a period of relative calm.

The three journalists were operating a drone near the town of Al-Zahra.

Mexico has sought to do more to combat its cartels in an effort to stave off airstrikes threatened by President Trump.

An eye condition, not a style choice, prompted President Emmanuel Macron of France to don aviators to address the World Economic Forum.

The president gave misleading accounts of the U.S. role in Greenland’s history and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, among other claims.

Harry said in court that reading articles about him published by Associated Newspapers, which he has accused of acting unlawfully, had been “traumatic.”