Russia accuses the West of “interfering” with exports of its agricultural products and fertilizers

Dmitry Utkin, cofounder and military commander of the Wagner Group, was buried Thursday in a quiet ceremony at a military cemetery near Moscow, after dying in a plane crash that also killed his boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The ceremony came as Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow for talks in a bid to revive the Black Sea grain deal. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

Watch: Workers clear up after a 127-year-old water main under New York’s Times Square gave way early Tuesday flooding midtown streets and the city’s busiest subway station as well as leaving a big hole at the intersection of 40th Street and Seventh Avenue.

With just two days to go before the eagerly-awaited Netflix release of its adaptation of the famous manga ‘One Piece’, mega-fans in costume flock to see the first two episodes screened in Paris on Tuesday evening at the Grand Rex cinema

As Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was laid to rest after a fatal plane crash, videos purportedly showing graves of the group’s fighters being demolished went viral on social media channels. But despite claims to the contrary, this footage does not show a large-scale effort by the Russian state to erase all traces of the mercenary group.

In Northern Ireland, the generation born after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is known as the “peace babies”. Yet, 25 years after the end of the conflict between nationalists, who want a united Ireland, and unionists, who want to remain part of the United Kingdom, the trauma of The Troubles still weighs on the younger generation.