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The helicopter was flying tourists in Russia’s Kamchatka region. No survivors were expected among the 22 people on board, state news agencies said.

Thick fog was a factor in the May crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi, an armed forces investigation found. His death shook Iran at a strained moment for the country.

The meal kit company’s decision follows an advocacy group’s report claiming that some monkeys in Thailand are forced to climb trees and pick the fruit.

As a longtime power broker he helped make his West African country an economic dynamo, but in office he fomented ethnic divisions and cracked down on dissent.

His lauded fiction satirized abuses of power in the continent, but as a high official for the Republic of Congo, he benefited from a much-criticized government.

Mr. Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from a bank in Mexico City and an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan. He has maintained they are innocent.

In a 47-year career at The Times, he covered Cold War diplomacy in Europe, famine in Africa and genocide in Southeast Asia and was also an author.

The most powerful secretary of state of the postwar era, he was both celebrated and reviled. His complicated legacy still resonates in relations with China, Russia and the Middle East.

The U.S. diplomat rose from a bookish childhood in Germany to become a power player in the halls of American politics.