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Tuesday Briefing

The day her father and dozens of other men were convicted of raping her mother in a trial that had gripped France was an acute personal tragedy to Caroline Darian. She escaped the Avignon courthouse and was enveloped in a giant crowd of women blocking traffic and chanting their love and gratitude for her and … Read more

To hear President Trump describe it, he and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia are about to have something akin to their own Yalta moment, great powers determining borders within Europe. He didn’t explicitly refer to the 1945 meeting, where Churchill, Stalin and a deathly ill Franklin D. Roosevelt carved the continent into the American-aligned … Read more

Families Mourn, Demand Answers After North Macedonia Fire

Rwanda severed diplomatic ties on Monday with its former colonial ruler, Belgium, which has been pushing to penalize Rwanda over its invasion of the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda’s Foreign Ministry gave Belgian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country. The diplomatic escalation came as the European Union, at the urging of Belgium, on … Read more

Theaters are never truly dark. In between performances, a simple floor lamp is placed onstage and switched on. It’s called a ghost light, and depending on whom you ask, it’s either a practical safety measure or a way to ward off spirits. Some say it actually welcomes them. As audience members entered the auditorium of … Read more

Serhii Kovalov doesn’t like sushi. Nor does the sushi chef at his restaurant in eastern Ukraine. But when customers started asking for it, Mr. Kovalov navigated both enemy shelling and ordinary supply-chain issues to get fresh fish for Philadelphia rolls to his frontline town, Sloviansk. Now, as Russian forces have drawn closer and life gets … Read more

Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging app Telegram who was charged in France last year with a range of crimes related to illicit activity on the app, has been allowed to temporarily leave the country. Mr. Durov had been barred from leaving France, but the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday that the investigative … Read more

As families of victims mourned the loss of loved ones and kept an anxious vigil in hospitals on Monday, the authorities in North Macedonia said they were investigating possible official misconduct in the case of a deadly inferno that killed at least 59 people over the weekend. Officials said that Club Pulse, the nightclub where … Read more

The Kremlin said on Monday that work was underway to prepare the second phone call between President Vladimir V. Putin and President Trump but refused to disclose what will be on the agenda, as American officials continued to project optimism about a U.S.-backed cease-fire deal with Ukraine. The highly anticipated phone call, scheduled for Tuesday, … Read more