Escalating drone strikes, fuel shortages and power cuts in the region Russia annexed are among the factors turning up the heat on President Vladimir V. Putin.

Foreign dignitaries from China, Russia, Pakistan and elsewhere are set to pay respects to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday as days of ceremonies get underway.

“Are we in the Soviet Union now?” asked one Russian, stunned and frustrated by the waits at the pumps.

Preservation experts say the move to develop the site reflects a tension in Germany between the need to preserve historically significant monuments and the need to build and modernize.

Rights groups and Western officials have criticized the law as a threat to Tibetans, Uyghurs and other minorities. Beijing says the measure aims to protect them.

Any Israeli attempt to kill Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister, or Mohammad Ghalibaf, the Parliament speaker, would have derailed peace talks, American officials feared.

The case against Mercedes González is part of a broader examination of whether allies of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez tried to illegally undermine inquiries into people close to him.

In the Netherlands, more than 15,000 children were separated from their mothers from 1956 to 1984, causing “great sorrow and anger,” according to an official report on the practice.

The move against the Society of St. Pius X followed its decision to defy Pope Leo XIV by consecrating new bishops against his wishes.

At least 17 people were killed in the assault on Kyiv, the Ukrainian authorities said. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had warned in recent days that Russia was preparing a “massive strike.”