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Russia’s massive overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv has made Ukraine’s air-defence shortage the day’s defining security story, while Canada is pressing a different kind of response: a multilateral defence bank meant to help allied countries finance resilience and rearmament.
The wider world report is a portrait of overlapping shocks: Europe is confronting the cost of adapting to heat, French firefighters are battling wind-driven wildfires, Venezuela faces a multibillion-dollar earthquake bill, and governments are still wrestling with online disinformation, migration tensions and military spending pressure.
After one of the war’s heaviest attacks on Ukraine’s capital, the Kremlin said it would continue intensifying pressure, while Kyiv counted the dead, searched damaged apartment blocks and renewed pleas for faster delivery of air-defence systems.
Officials said Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, damaging residential buildings and medical facilities, with rescuers still searching through rubble.
Canada is aiming to unveil a group of founding backers at next week’s NATO summit, pitching a defence, security and resilience bank that could raise low-cost financing for allied military capacity.
Europe’s climate leadership is being tested at home as extreme heat strains power systems, transport and public health, raising pressure for more spending on adaptation as well as emissions cuts.
Strong winds and parched conditions after Europe’s heatwave are feeding several blazes along France’s Mediterranean coast, forcing a large firefighting response near Marseille.
Risk modeler Verisk put the economic damage from Venezuela’s recent earthquakes above $10 billion, a sign that the humanitarian disaster is becoming a long-term reconstruction crisis.
Lisa Nandy said she is leaving Elon Musk’s platform, sharpening Britain’s debate over political speech, online abuse and the responsibility of social-media companies.
Canberra is seeking tighter control over military procurement as allies across the Indo-Pacific face pressure to spend faster, smarter and with fewer delays.
Kyiv mourns after a huge Russian missile-and-drone assault.
Canada wants allies to back a new financing tool at NATO.
Adaptation is becoming as urgent as emissions reduction.
Wildfires spread after punishing heat and dry conditions.
Earthquake damage is now measured in billions.
A UK minister’s X exit renews the misinformation debate.
