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Kyiv burns, France counts 2,025

Russia pounds Kyiv as heat, quakes and alliance strains stretch governments across continents

The day’s hardest news came with a familiar pattern: governments faced shocks they could not fully control, then argued over who should pay, move or apologise. War hit Kyiv, heat killed in France, Venezuela dug through rubble and NATO allies prepared for another bruising encounter with Donald Trump.

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The US under Trump: second term

President Trump's public criticism of German defence spending and Chancellor Merz's direct response highlight continued friction within NATO over burden-sharing, reinforcing the transactional nature of US alliance policy.

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Peru presidential runoff election

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