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The Kremlin’s comments came after Ukraine’s leader called for the shipments to continue despite Russia’s withdrawal from a landmark grain deal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tried to fuse his image to the economic and political power of Indians abroad. They voice both pride and worry in return.

Only one pilot whale survived out of the 55 beached on the Isle of Lewis in northwest Scotland on Sunday. It was the largest mass stranding in the region in over a decade.

The authorities said the cylindrical object, which was found about 155 miles north of Perth, did not pose a risk to the public, but they have yet to identify it.

As war rages in Sudan, the United Nations said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allies were responsible for killing at least 87 people in the western region of Darfur.

A Russian lawmaker says that Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who has not been seen in public since a short-lived mutiny, has been “taking a rest.”

The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” he was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.

The protest came as Turkey agreed to clear the way for Sweden to join the alliance and after the burning of a Quran in Stockholm.

In the city of Jenin, partly dominated by militias, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, was seen as a relic and treated as a guest, not a ruler.

Mr. Kundera, the author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.