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The day’s main stories share a hard edge: governments are taking bigger risks and asking citizens to trust them. War widened in the Gulf, Ukraine changed hands at the top of its defence ministry, and smoke turned North American summer into a public-health warning.

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Macron declares current wildfire crisis the worst France has faced since 1945 as emergency services battle multiple blazes
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France wildfire crisis

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France wildfire crisis
Macron declares current wildfire crisis the worst France has faced since 1945 as emergency services battle multiple blazes

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