Colombia Quake Kills 180 Amid a Turbulent Day

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake killed at least 180 people in Cali and Pereira on Monday, prompting Colombia's president to declare a state of emergency as rescuers dig through rubble for survivors. Thailand faced its own tragedy: after a school shooting near Bangkok left eight people and the 14-year-old gunman dead, the government suspended all new firearm permits. Diplomacy moved in parallel. Russia freed former US Marine Robert Gilman on humanitarian grounds after President Trump intervened; the 32-year-old had been found catatonic in a Russian prison hospital. In occupied Mariupol, Russian developers kept building apartment towers on the ruins of homes destroyed in 2022, displacing the Ukrainians who once lived there. In Budapest, parliament elected former judge Andras Baka as president over a Fidesz boycott, a rebuke to Viktor Orban's legacy. Britain wrestled with its own justice questions, as Andy Burnham pushed to keep PC Andrew Harper's killers out of new early-release rules and a court convicted a man of harassing MP Stella Creasy on the Tube. Elsewhere, drought left the Rhine near Kaub just 16 centimetres above gauge zero, threatening German supply chains, while Birmingham's European Athletics Championships opened to nearly 10,000 empty seats over 150-pound tickets. With eclipse glasses sold out nationwide, Britain now waits for Wednesday's rare solar eclipse.