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    Why Israel Is Wary of Intervening in Iran

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    Iran Backpedals on Executions Threat but Casts Protesters as ‘Terrorists’

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    Trump Explores Diplomacy With Iran While Weighing Strikes, Officials Say

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    Trump Has Machado’s Nobel Prize, but Neither Got What They Really Wanted

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    Judge Recommends U.S. Issue Visa to Student Who Was Deported in Error

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    Senate Republicans Block Effort to Check Trump’s War Powers in Venezuela

    G.O.P. leaders succeeded in pressuring fellow senators who initially supported the measure that would have limited President Trump’s military authority in Venezuela.

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    Venezuela Envoy to Visit U.S. for First Official Trip in Years

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    ‘We’re Not Stupid’: What Greenlanders Would Say to Trump

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    Inside the Doctors Without Borders Clinics That Israel Is Closing in Gaza

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    Iran’s Supreme Leader, Unbending Over Time

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    Despite Maduro’s Capture, Venezuelan Exiles Realize They’re Not Going Home Soon

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    Can Cuba Survive Without Venezuela’s Oil?

    President Trump stopped Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba, and experts say disaster looms. Oil fuels its electric grid and without alternative supplies the country will plunge into extended darkness.

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    Thousands Evicted From Makoko, the ‘Venice of Nigeria’

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    World Leaders Consider Joining Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza

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    Trump’s Gulf Allies Do Not Want Him to Bomb Iran

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    An Emboldened Trump Makes Big Bets in Venezuela, Iran and Beyond

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    Analysis: Trump Supports Protesters in Iran, but Not in Minneapolis

    The split-screen television images of mass demonstrations in Minneapolis and Tehran have highlighted the president’s disparate views of democracy and popular dissent.

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    How a Syrian Hiking Club Is Rediscovering the Country

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    C.I.A. Director Meets With Venezuela’s Interim President in Caracas

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    James Luckey-Lange Among Americans Freed in Venezuela

    James Luckey-Lange, 28, was released this week with several other U.S. citizens from the country’s notorious prison system after going missing in December, his family said.

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    Venezuelan Immigrants Urge Appeals Court to Restore Deportation Protections

    The Trump administration has ended Temporary Protected Status for about 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants, part of a broader effort to curb avenues for immigrants to remain in the United States.

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    British Columbia Ends Program That Aimed to Curb Arrests of Drug Users

    The three-year pilot program did not deliver the results hoped for, the health minister said. It had allowed drug users to avoid criminal charges for possessing small amounts of illegal substances.

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    Interviewing Colombia’s President, Before and After His Call With Trump

    New York Times reporters waited more than eight hours to speak with President Gustavo Petro, who, as it turned out, had another important conversation in the works.

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    Uganda’s Election Goes Ahead, Despite Major Delays at the Polls

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

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    World Leaders Consider Joining Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza

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    Greek Court Acquits Rescue Workers Accused of Smuggling Migrants

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    How Greenland Is Reacting to Trump’s Threats

    Our reporter Jeffrey Gettleman is on the ground in Greenland, seeing how people have reacted to Trump’s desire to take it over. He and our senior writer Katrin Bennhold discuss what Greenland means to the United States, Denmark and Greenlanders.

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    C.I.A. Director Meets With Venezuela’s Interim President in Caracas

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    Death Toll Rises to 28 After Landfill Collapse in the Philippines

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    Sony teases audio-related launch event for next week

    Sony is hosting an audio-related product launch event on January 21, and it seems we’ll be getting the brand’s next-gen LinkBuds earbuds and not the long-awaited WF-1000XM6 flagship. The event is set to kick off at 4PM UTC (8AM PST) and will be livestreamed on YouTube.

    While the teaser does a good job of concealing the product’s design, we can spot that the earbuds are attached around the ear of the model in the thumbnail.

    Furthermore, the “Discover a new form of listening” tagline for the event implies that the earbuds will feature a less common design than the in-ear format.

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    vivo X300 Ultra tipped to feature a large size multispectral sensor

    vivo’s upcoming camera flagship, the X300 Ultra, has been the subject of several leaks. The latest one sheds more light on its rear camera setup, which is rumored to feature dual 200MP sensors.

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    Sony teases audio-related launch event for next week

    Sony is hosting an audio-related product launch event on January 21, and it seems we’ll be getting the brand’s next-gen LinkBuds earbuds and not the long-awaited WF-1000XM6 flagship. The event is set to kick off at 4PM UTC (8AM PST) and will be livestreamed on YouTube.

    While the teaser does a good job of concealing the product’s design, we can spot that the earbuds are attached around the ear of the model in the thumbnail.

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