Mikhail Klimentov

• Middle East

Elizabeth Tsurkov was conducting doctoral research in Baghdad when she went missing in March.

• War in Ukraine

In his first audio message since calling off a mutiny aimed at Russia’s Defense Ministry leaders, Yevgeniy Prigozhin vowed that his mercenaries would keep fighting on Moscow’s side in Ukraine.

• Americas

The four siblings, ages 13 to 1, were traveling in a small aircraft that crashed in the Colombian Amazon on May 1. Their mother and two others were killed.

• Asia

A derailment in Odisha sent cars careening onto the opposite track, where another train struck them, according to officials and local media reports.

• Middle East

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey’s runoff election, according to the national election board. During his tenure, he has moved toward autocracy.

• War in Ukraine

President Biden has ruled out U.S. deliveries of F-16s to Ukraine. But U.S. officials say that Washington will not stop allies from exporting the jets.

• Americas

Colombia's president said that the four siblings had been found, but later retracted his tweet and apologized. Their fate remains uncertain.

• World

Legal wrangling over abortion and mifepristone — most recently in a federal appeals court — places the U.S. on a different trajectory from the rest of the world.

• War in Ukraine

The Ukrainian and Russian sides have given conflicting statements on whether Ukraine’s counteroffensive has begun, amid fierce fighting for the city of Bakhmut.