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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. After a self-imposed exile, Venâncio Mondlane was welcomed home by delirious crowds supporting his claim that the country’s last election was stolen from him by corrupt elites. Venâncio Mondlane, the…

Briefing|Friday Briefing: Racing to Control Los Angeles Fires https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/briefing/los-angeles-wildfires-lebanon-us-ukraine.html You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Image Credit…Loren Elliott for The New York Times Firefighters rushed to contain the Los Angeles wildfires Officials hoped that a drop…

Americas|Venezuela’s Opposition Leader, Maria Corina Machado, Detained at Protest https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/world/americas/venezuelas-opposition-leader-maria-corina-machado-detained.html Ms. Machado has garnered enormous support for her opposition to the country’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro. María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, was detained on Thursday after appearing at a protest in Caracas.Credit…Maxwell Briceno/Reuters Jan. 9, 2025Updated 3:27 p.m. ET Venezuela’s popular opposition leader, María…

Just 15 men remain at the prison, down from hundreds when it opened 23 years ago. But the costly operation could go on for years. A prisoner at Guantánamo in 2019. Fifteen inmates remain at the military base.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times By Carol Rosenberg Carol Rosenberg has been covering the prison at Guantánamo Bay,…

The action put the measure on track for likely enactment given strong support for it among Republicans, who now control the Senate, and President-elect Donald J. Trump. Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in Paris last year. Congressional Republicans have been trying to crack down on the court since May, when…

The site, coco.fr, was shut down in June after being linked to more than 23,000 sexual abuse and other cases in France alone, including the rape trial that shocked the country last year. Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, after a hearing in November.Credit…Christophe Simon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Jan. 9, 2025Updated 1:30…

The site, coco.fr, was shut down in June after being linked to more than 23,000 sexual abuse and other cases in France alone, including the rape trial that shocked the country last year. Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, after a hearing in November.Credit…Christophe Simon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Jan. 9, 2025, 12:23…

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. In an impassioned address to officials from countries supporting Ukraine, Mr. Zelensky said ‘a new chapter’ would be starting for Europe and the rest of the world, requiring even more…

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. After staying flat for nearly two decades, electricity use is starting to rise again, and the boom in wind and solar power hasn’t kept pace. Construction of wind turbines for…

Europe|Elon Musk Is Trying to Break Germany’s Quarantine on the Far-Right AfD https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/world/europe/germany-elon-musk-afd.html You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. news analysis Political leaders have shunned the Alternative for Germany. But on his social media platform X,…