The day mixed hard-security scares with political jolts and one very large media bet. Governments tried to show control, but markets, courts and drones kept reminding them that control is now the scarce commodity.

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French student protests escalate
Convenes emergency summit at the Elysee Palace as half a million students take to the streets, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing French protests.
Siberia plague death and quarantine
Assessed the risk of the potential plague outbreak in Russia as low, according to the World Health Organization.

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Climate: from mitigation to adaptation

EU opens first structured geoengineering research tender and WMO revises summer heat mortality to 45,000, both noteworthy but not frame-shifting.

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