Colombia Quake Kills 132 as Ukraine War Escalates

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake tore through Colombia before dawn, killing at least 132 people and injuring more than 480. Pereira and Cali were hit hardest as buildings collapsed; one family filmed their narrow escape, and the government declared a state of emergency. Meanwhile in Ukraine, Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia killed six and wounded nineteen. President Zelensky said for the first time that Moscow could not sustain the war without North Korean ballistic missiles, even as Kyiv scrambles for alternatives to its dwindling supply of US Patriot interceptors. Elsewhere, a Syrian court sentenced former dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for war crimes, the first criminal conviction against him since he fled to Moscow in December 2024. In Turkey, Trump secretly switched to a military aircraft during a NATO summit after intelligence flagged a credible Iranian threat to Air Force One. Smaller stories: Istanbul overtook Heathrow as Europe's busiest airport, UK regulators approved Eli Lilly's weight-loss pill Foundayo, and Australia's PM Albanese drew backlash over remarks on a melon gift from Japan's premier. In Glasgow, a man was charged over a racist cone attack on a Muslim delivery driver, while PC Andrew Harper's mother voiced hope a Downing Street call will block his killers' early release.