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The grain terminal at Odesa’s port on Saturday. A Ukrainian official said Russian strikes had caused 10 explosions in Odesa, and that the strikes on the port had caused a fire.Credit...Daniel Berehulak...

Jesse Green, the chief theater critic for The New York Times, has just returned from the Stratford Festival in Ontario, where the 2022 season started with the opening of a new theater.Leaving...

BRUSSELS — There are many moving parts to the grain deal Russia and Ukraine reached, which officials didn’t think was even possible until last week, not least because the war is continuing...

BRUSSELS — After three months of talks that often seemed doomed, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on Friday to free more than 20 million tons of grain stuck in Ukraine’s blockaded...

Grain bins storing corn, wheat, sunflower and soybeans in Boryspil, Ukraine, in May. Credit...Nicole Tung for The New York TimesBRUSSELS — After three months of intensive talks, Ukraine and Russia have reached...

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...