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Amid the hostility over the war in Ukraine, a court imposed nearly the maximum possible sentence on the American basketball star Brittney Griner, intensifying calls to win her release.

The injuries were not serious, but they underscored the risks facing tourists who hike to the Fagradalsfjall volcano in southwest Iceland, officials said.

The penal colonies, many of them scattered across Siberia, are descendants of gulags and are characterized by brutality, overcrowding and harsh conditions.

Antony J. Blinken also called the Turkish foreign minister and praised his efforts in helping get Russia to allow food shipments to leave Ukrainian ports.

Brittney Griner offered a glimpse of her personal story while testifying in a Russian court on Thursday.

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Envoys from both countries gathered for another effort to restore the 2015 agreement to limit Tehran’s nuclear program. Expectations are low.

António Guterres said the world was facing an energy crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine and called on governments to tax oil companies’ profits and distribute the proceeds to the poor.

The curator of “In the Black Fantastic” at London’s Hayward Gallery describes it as a “feel-good show about death,” which also looks beyond Afrofuturism.