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With global attention focused on Donald Trump’s “detour” in Iran, and the shockwaves the joint U.S.-Israeli offensive is sending through global energy markets, former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was scheduled to appear in court in New York Thursday on charges including narcoterrorism and drug trafficking conspiracy. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty at their arraignment in January at the beginning of a judicial process that experts predict will not reach trial for another year or two.
As the conflict in the Middle East rages on, Iran on Wednesday rejected a 15-point proposal from Washington to end the fighting, and tabled counter-proposals of its own, including the recognition of Tehran’s sovereignty over the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, on the ground, Kurdish militias are waiting in the wings for signs of weakness from the regime to make their move. “Never in these 47 years have we been so close to seeing the Iranian regime fall,” Baba Sheikh Husseini, the leader of one of the Kurdish-Iranian militias now joined together in a coalition, told EL PAÍS.
Also this week we looked at the debate surrounding the U.S. president’s mental health, spoke to Marc Abrahams, the founder of the satirical Ig Nobel awards, and pondered a dystopian vision of the future in which the price of oil hits $200 a barrel.
We hope you enjoy this selection of stories from EL PAÍS USA Edition.
You can also read:
- More poverty, less travel and fewer jobs: what the world would be like with oil at $200
- Matthew Lieberman, psychologist: ‘Loneliness kills in ways that aren’t obvious’
- Noelia Castillo, the young woman who fought her parents for her right to die: ‘I can’t take this family anymore’
- The return of extreme thinness disguised as health: ‘They used to tell you you were fat; now they tell you you have inflammation’
- What to know about the ‘No Kings’ protests on March 28
- ‘Prognathodon cipactli,’ a sea monster from the age of the dinosaurs discovered in Mexico
- Hannah Montana’s return 20 years later: The Disney legend who reconciled with her childhood
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