Europe

With no dragons and no warring dynasties, HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is the first test of whether the “Thrones” formula works on a human scale. Source link

A backlash over a rant against Ukrainian officials has raised questions about Eastern Europe’s welcome of Russian dissidents. Source link

With less than a month until the Winter Games in northern Italy, builders have yet to complete a major arena. Source link

The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in public about what they had agreed to this week as President Trump continued to demand U.S. ownership of Greenland. Source link

Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce. Source link

Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost. Source link

Workers will be able to use a variety of digital IDs to prove their right to work in Britain, the government said Wednesday, diluting a plan it announced last year. Source link

A visit to Greenland reveals a swirl of feelings as people nervously await talks with the Trump administration about the island’s future. Source link

The treaty that created NATO did not contemplate an attack by one ally on another. A seizure of Greenland by President Trump would test the endurance of the mutual-defense pact. Source link

Mascha Schilinski’s movie “Sound of Falling,” which takes place over a century in a rural farmhouse, shows how trauma is transmitted through generations. Source link