Noontime News Recap: Border violence, Europe heatwave and Asia tensions dominate the noon brief

Pakistan said it killed 29 militants in a combined air and ground operation along the border with Afghanistan, after launching strikes into three Afghan provinces, as civilian casualties on the Afghan side rose and the frontier crisis deepened.  🔗

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In Ukraine, Vladimir Putin rejected reported proposals to limit long range strikes, saying Moscow would continue its war, even as drone attacks intensified and the conflict showed no sign of easing.  🔗

India will be represented at the funeral ceremonies for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by Bihar governor Syed Ata Hasnain and Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh, signalling a formal diplomatic presence at the event.  🔗

In South Asia, heavy monsoon rain in Arunachal Pradesh has triggered flash floods and landslides, leaving at least three people dead over the past week and causing significant disruption, while the Ram Temple in Ayodhya faces embezzlement allegations over donations worth potentially millions of dollars amid police probes and political fallout.  🔗  🔗

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China has imposed new export controls on dozens of Japanese organisations, tightening restrictions on dual use items that can have military applications and adding to the strain in its feud with Tokyo.  🔗

Australia and Vanuatu signed the Nakamal Agreement in Canberra, finalising a security and economic pact that bars foreign military bases from being established, even as China voiced concern about the deal.  🔗

In South Africa, one of the country's most senior police officers survived an attempted assassination in Johannesburg ahead of a corruption inquiry, raising fresh alarm over violence and institutional pressure.  🔗

Across Europe, a record heatwave is driving wildfires and excess deaths, with firefighters and aircraft battling a blaze in pine forests on Croatia's tourist island of Vis as fire risk spreads more widely.  🔗

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In the United States, Donald Trump intensified his attacks on the Democratic Party, accusing it of embracing communism and casting it as the greatest threat to the US since the World Wars and 9/11.  🔗

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