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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — Breaking through the monthslong Russian blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, a ship loaded with corn became the first to sail out since the invasion Monday, raising hopes that desperately needed grain will soon reach destinations in the Middle East and Africa and ease a global food crisis.

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ODESA, Ukraine —President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, visiting a port in the Odesa region on Friday, expressed hope that grain exports could begin within the coming days, as U.S. and European ambassadors called on Russia to heed a deal to get the grain moving.

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Ukraine-Russia War: Latest News

Ukraine expressed a heightened sense of urgency on Thursday over its looming counteroffensive in the south, saying Russia was racing to bolster its forces in the region and taking further steps to solidify its political hold in the territory it controls.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/28/world/ukraine-russia-news-war

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Anti-U.N. Protests in Congo Leave 15 Dead, Including 3 Peacekeepers

Demonstrators have accused international forces of failing to deter armed groups responsible for a wave of deadly attacks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/world/africa/congo-un-peacekeepers.html

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Ukraine Live Updates: E.U. Agrees to Sweeping Curbs on Energy Use to Counter Moscow’s Leverage

BRUSSELS — European Union energy ministers on Tuesday hammered out a deal to curb their natural gas consumption, finding enough common political ground for a quick compromise intended to avert an energy meltdown as Russia toys with the union’s fuel supplies.

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Brittney Griner Trial and Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates

Overnight missile strikes on a residential tower and a recreational center in a coastal town southwest of the Black Sea port city of Odesa early Friday killed at least 19 and injured dozens of others, Ukrainian officials said.

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

MADRID — NATO has continued to emphasize member nations’ unity against Russia. But as the alliance concludes its annual summit meeting on Thursday — in the same week that the Group of 7 industrialized nations held their own gathering in Germany — there is an abiding question about how Western leaders can keep their publics committed to backing Ukraine against Russia’s invasion.

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Ukraine Updates: Turkey Agrees to Allow Sweden and Finland to Join NATO

MADRID — NATO leaders will formally invite Finland and Sweden to join the alliance on Wednesday after Turkey lifted its veto on their membership, NATO’s secretary-general said Tuesday evening, clearing the way for what would be one of the most significant expansions of the alliance in decades.

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Latest G7 and Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

The United States and Group of 7 allies wrapped up two days of talks in Germany on Tuesday with an agreement to seek temporary caps on the price of Russian oil and spend billions more on food security, as Western leaders shuttled to a NATO meeting to discuss bolstering military support for Ukraine.

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Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

Straining to keep pressure on President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia while curbing the economic damage from his invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its Western allies were nearing an agreement on Monday to adopt price caps on Russian oil that would limit the fossil fuel revenues that Moscow is depending on to finance its grinding, four-month-old war.