Day News Recap: Pakistan strikes in Afghanistan spark civilian deaths as US courts and Iran talks dominate

The biggest escalation came on the Pakistan Afghanistan border, where the UN mission in Afghanistan said at least 28 civilians were killed and 49 injured after Pakistan launched airstrikes and sent ground troops into Afghan territory. India condemned the strikes, saying civilians, including women and children, were among the dead.  🔗  🔗

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Regional fallout widened as Donald Trump said Iran had requested a meeting in Doha and that talks would go ahead, while Iranian officials denied any political negotiations were planned. US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were later reported to be in Qatar for mediator led discussions, with Tehran saying only technical meetings were scheduled and no direct talks were under way.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In the Middle East, Israel said it would keep forces in Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed, even as Benjamin Netanyahu hailed a new Lebanon agreement as a win for Israel. Syria also condemned a fresh Israeli incursion and shelling in Daraa province, saying troops advanced into Abdin and residents fled overnight.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Ukraine and Russia traded fresh strikes, with a six month old baby and a man killed in Russia's Moscow region after drone debris hit a building, while Kyiv said it had struck Russia's Dubna satellite communications centre for a second time. A separate UN account said missile and drone attacks over the weekend killed at least a dozen civilians in Russia and Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin publicly acknowledged fuel shortages caused by Ukrainian strikes on energy infrastructure.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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Across Asia, India faced more monsoon disruption as floods and landslides worsened in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, washing away roads and bridges and forcing fresh rescues. Arunachal Pradesh also said it would probe alleged Chinese encroachment near Taksing, while in Tamil Nadu an ammonia leak at a seafood plant killed 16 people, most of them women migrant workers, prompting a safety probe.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere in the region, Queensland police charged 11 people over 3D printed gun blueprints after tightening firearms laws, and Indonesia's former education minister Nadiem Makarim was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a corruption case over Chromebook procurement. Peru's electoral authorities also finalised the presidential runoff count, declaring Keiko Fujimori the narrow winner over Roberto Sanchez after weeks of review.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In Europe, Italy and the Balkans endured a record heatwave with red warnings in force, wildfires burning and more extreme temperatures forecast. Monaco prosecutors said they were not treating a blast at a residential building as terrorism for now after three people were wounded, while Germany's domestic intelligence service warned that right wing extremism remains the country's biggest democratic threat.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Britain announced a defence investment plan worth almost 300 billion pounds over four years, including more than 5 billion pounds for drones and autonomous systems, as NATO pressure mounts. Finland's President Alexander Stubb will attend the NATO summit in Ankara on 7 and 8 July, and the EU said it will begin implementing its tariff deal with the United States from tomorrow.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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In wider diplomacy and trade, the EU and China held talks in Brussels on market access and trade imbalance, while China stepped up investment in the Middle Corridor route to Europe and launched its first river sea intermodal zero carbon route in Zhejiang. The Council also appointed Philippe Jaeglé as France's new European prosecutor, and dozens of governments backed stronger energy efficiency action at a Montreal conference.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

In the United States, the Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a mixed set of rulings, rejecting his bid to restrict birthright citizenship and blocking his attempt to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, while also issuing one decision in his favour on the FTC. Trump separately pressed petrol retailers to cut gasoline prices immediately and nominated Judge John Cronan to the US Sentencing Commission.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Other US headlines included a JetBlue flight reporting a drone strike on approach to JFK for a second day, a Chinese national pleading guilty in a Honduras based drug, money laundering and terror support case, and an Alabama man being sentenced for distributing child sexual abuse material. South Africa also deployed police as anti immigrant protests spread, and Russia expanded military training for schoolchildren aged 11 to 17.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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