A section of the landmark’s original staircase will go up for auction next month and could sell for a towering sum.

As Moscow throttles Russia’s few remaining independent voices, the authorities targeted two of the most prominent, one a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the other headed by a Nobel laureate.

The Trump administration aims to deploy counterterrorism tools against far-left groups, even as it has offered little evidence they present a dire threat.

Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the International Monetary Fund, said the war in the Middle East could lead to another bout of inflation and higher interest rates.

On the second day of a shaky cease-fire, thousands of supporters of Iran’s government took to the streets of Tehran, the capital, to commemorate the 40th day since the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

As the focus shifts to negotiations between the United States and Iran, no formal Israeli participation is planned.

Search-and-rescue operations continued in Lebanon a day after Israel unleashed a deadly wave of strikes across the country that has called into question a fragile cease-fire with Iran.

Nailya Allakhverdiyeva tried compromising with the authorities so she could continue showing contemporary art. But the intimidation didn’t end.

John Healey, the defense secretary, said the vessels were gathering information about undersea pipelines, and said he believed President Vladimir V. Putin “would want us to be distracted by the Middle East.”

For Iran’s theocratic rulers, just surviving the U.S.-Israeli onslaught means victory. But the seeds of their next crisis may already be planted.