Saudi Arabia: The young Saudi woman who barricaded herself in a Bangkok airport hotel room to avoid deportation was granted refugee status on Wednesday by the U.N. refugee agency, Australian officials said, clearing the way for an asylum request.

Nepal: A woman and her two children died in a menstruation hut, the latest victims of a centuries-old tradition of banishing women from their homes during their periods, when they are considered impure. The practice was criminalized last year but many villages continue it.

Australia: Foreign consulates in Melbourne and Canberra were evacuated after they received suspicious packages containing what the authorities described as potentially “hazardous material.”

Rod Rosenstein: The U.S. deputy attorney general, who has been overseeing the special counsel’s Russia investigation, is expected to step down after President Trump’s choice to run the Justice Department is confirmed, according to administration officials.

Women in power: There are now more women over the age of 50 in the U.S. than at any other point in history — and they’re becoming more visible and powerful, writes our gender editor.

Norwegian Air: The low-cost airline was forced to land a flight in Iran because of a technical error. A month later, the American-made jet is still stuck because U.S. sanctions have made it difficult to get spare parts.

Iran: The E.U. penalized the country over allegations that its intelligence agency orchestrated a series of assassination plots in Europe in recent years, including the killings of two Iranians in the Netherlands who had ties to anti-government extremist groups.