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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, a Senegal-born writer, has won high praise and top prizes from Paris’s insular publishing establishment. But the novelist wonders: Is it an endorsement or “a way to silence me”?

Western intelligence officials, as well as the Kremlin, this week dismissed longstanding rumors that Vladimir V. Putin, the 69-year-old Russian president, is unwell.Mr. Putin coughed during a speech in Moscow on Wednesday,...

Pipe systems of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline in Lubmin, Germany.Credit...Jens Buettner/DPA, via Associated PressRussia’s decision to restart the flow of natural gas through a vital pipeline on Thursday brought...

“It was chaos ­— tourists’ hands and legs were detached from their bodies,” said Ahmad Tahseen Ali, 30, from Babil Province, who said he was standing about 20 meters from one of...

Gas began flowing early Thursday through a pipeline that normally provides more than a third of Germany’s needs as well as essential gas supplies to several of its European partners.The pipeline, Nord...

BRUSSELS — Europe must cut its use of natural gas by 15 percent from now through next spring to prevent a major crisis as Russia slashes gas exports, the European Union’s executive...

Ukraine’s first lady addressed the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, asking for more weapons to defend against what she called the “Russian hunger games” killing children and ripping apart families.“I want to address...

Kherson, in southern Ukraine, has been under Russian control since the early days of the war.Credit...Andrey Borodulin/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesA critical bridge shelled. A fighter jet shot out of the sky....

Deadly heat and Russia’s war in Ukraine are packing a brutal double punch, upending the global energy market and forcing some of the world’s largest economies into a desperate scramble to secure...

LONDON — For the first time on record, Britain suffered under temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius — 104 Fahrenheit — on Tuesday, as a ferocious heat wave moved northwest, leaving a trail...