Day News Recap: Hormuz truce, Ukraine strikes and global shocks dominate a volatile day

The biggest development was a fragile de escalation around the Strait of Hormuz, with the United States and Iran agreeing to stand down for now after several days of strikes and counterstrikes near the waterway, even as a separate report said talks in Doha remain disputed and volatile.  🔗  🔗

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In the Middle East, Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least four Palestinians, including a 13 year old girl, as attacks on tents and other civilian sites continued, while Israel also carried out further strikes in southern Lebanon, including the destruction of what it described as a tunnel near the village of Aita al Shaab.  🔗  🔗

Lebanon's new US brokered framework deal with Israel triggered protests in Beirut, where demonstrators said the agreement failed to secure a full Israeli withdrawal, and Syria separately condemned a new Israeli incursion and shelling in Daraa province after troops advanced into Abidin.  🔗  🔗

Ukraine said Russian missile and drone strikes across the country killed at least eight people and wounded 34, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to call for stronger air defences, while he also gave Belarus one week to shut down four Russia linked drone relay stations used to support attacks on Ukraine.  🔗  🔗

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On the Russia front, drone strikes on oil infrastructure have deepened fuel shortages, with motorists facing queues and fights at filling stations as supplies tighten.  🔗 In Pakistan, officials said 29 militants were killed in a combined air and ground operation along the Afghan border after strikes into three Afghan provinces, even as the civilian toll on the Afghan side rose.  🔗

Disaster news was severe in the Americas and Europe. Venezuela said the earthquake death toll had climbed to nearly 1,500 as the critical 72 hour rescue window closed, while in France all 11 people aboard a skydiving plane were killed when it crashed in Tomblaine in the east of the country.  🔗  🔗

Wildfires and extreme weather also caused deaths and disruption. Three firefighters were killed and two injured when the Snyder Fire overran their position on the Colorado Utah border, while in Europe a record heatwave drove wildfires in Croatia and excess deaths across the continent, including a blaze on the island of Vis.  🔗  🔗 In India, monsoon floods and landslides in Arunachal Pradesh left at least three dead and caused major damage, including a rescue raft overturning during operations.  🔗

Elsewhere in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice over the eastern conflict and separately banned mass gatherings in Kinshasa and three other areas amid fears of Ebola spreading beyond the capital. Human Rights Watch also accused jihadists, the Malian army and its Russian allies of grave abuses during April violence.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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In Asia Pacific and beyond, China imposed new export controls on dozens of Japanese entities in a worsening feud with Tokyo, Australia and Vanuatu signed the Nakamal Agreement in Canberra with a ban on foreign military bases, and the Indian Army said it will roll out its first Integrated Battle Groups next month near China facing corps.  🔗  🔗  🔗 India also named Bihar governor Syed Ata Hasnain and Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita to represent it at the funeral ceremonies for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  🔗

In domestic politics and security, the US Supreme Court broadened presidential power to remove the heads of independent federal agencies, while making a specific exception for Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, and President Donald Trump hailed the ruling as a major win and separately cast communism as the greatest threat to the US since the world wars and 9/11.  🔗  🔗  🔗 In the UK, police launched a major criminal investigation after a vehicle ploughed into pedestrians in Ealing Broadway, west London, with the driver arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.  🔗

Other developments included South African police saying a senior officer survived an attempted assassination in Johannesburg ahead of a corruption inquiry, Senegal moving toward a referendum after parliament backed constitutional reform, and Australia charging Kira and Igor Korolev in Brisbane with a new conspiracy to commit espionage allegation.  🔗  🔗  🔗 The Ram Temple in Ayodhya also faced embezzlement allegations amid police probes and political fallout.  🔗

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