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The day’s gravest news came from Colombia, where rescuers searched through rubble after the country’s strongest earthquake of the century. Elsewhere, politics moved through courts and emergency rooms: Syria judged its former ruler, Donald Trump rewrote vaccine guidance, and heat bent Europe’s infrastructure.

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The World Meteorological Organization issued a general warning about extreme heat becoming longer, stronger, and more widespread, reinforcing existing trends without introducing new policy or specific European developments.

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Russia frees former US Marine Gilman

Geopolitics·High·Reported 5h 16m ago·Updated 1h 22m ago
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    Russia frees former US Marine Gilman

    Released on humanitarian grounds after four years in detention, Gilman is traveling to a US military hospital in Texas for medical evaluation.

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