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Fresh government air strikes have killed 20 alleged members of the Central General Staff (EMC) armed group in southern Colombia, the country's new right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella said Monday. The new administration carried out two other deadly air strikes against suspected guerrillas in August, which sources within Colombia's forensics authority say killed at least four minors.

Russian ballistic missile strikes apparently targeting energy and railway infrastructure rained down on Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday, Ukrainian authorities said, with a strike on a railway depot killing at least seven people. It's the sixth consecutive day of Russian strikes on Ukraine's capital. Follow our liveblog for all the latest updates.

François Picard is pleased to welcome Rana Mitter, historian, author and ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He sees the significance of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as it pertains to the evolution of a changing international system. Once largely a symbolic vehicle for China and Russia to signal their distance from a US-led order, the SCO is quickly becoming a forum in which Asian powers increasingly coordinate around the material foundations of security: energy, technology, infrastructure and trade.