• In Iran, an aide to the country’s negotiators in talks that led to the 2015 nuclear agreement has been sentenced to five years in prison for spying. [The New York Times]

• In Denmark, an autopsy revealed that the Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died on the Danish inventor Peter Madsen’s submarine, had been stabbed more than 14 times, casting further doubt on his explanation of her death. [The New York Times]

• European governments tripled the number of Afghan asylum seekers they deported to their war-torn homeland last year compared with 2015, Amnesty International said. [Associated Press]

• Transgender women will be allowed to enroll in a female-only college at Cambridge University, which argued that the understanding of what it means to be a woman had changed. [The New York Times]

• In Romania, Iulian Vlad, the last chief of Ceausescu’s dreaded secret police, has died at 86. [The New York Times]

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