Breakfast News Recap: Nigeria school attack, Gaza land moves and global security fears dominate briefing

At least 37 students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in Lassa, in Nigeria’s Borno State, in the latest mass abduction to hit the country’s northeast. Local officials said the raid also left a school vice principal dead and a security guard injured.  🔗

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In South Sudan, the UN said five humanitarian workers were killed when their convoy was ambushed in Duk County, Jonglei State, with four other people also killed. The attack underlines the continuing danger facing aid operations in one of the world’s most fragile conflict zones.  🔗

Security tensions are also rising in South Asia, where the Afghan Taliban said it carried out strikes along the border with Pakistan, while Islamabad said it shot down four rudimentary drones and warned of a strong response. The exchange adds to already strained relations between the two neighbours.  🔗

In the Middle East, Qatar said no direct high level talks between the United States and Iran are planned, despite Donald Trump’s claims that fresh negotiations were imminent, as Doha continues its mediation role. Separately, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz is vital and invited him to the BRICS summit.  🔗 🔗

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Israel has advanced a series of land control and construction measures in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, deepening concern over facts on the ground as the conflict continues. At the same time, the UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that millions could be at risk if a $100m funding gap at UNRWA is not closed.  🔗 🔗

Elsewhere in Europe, two people have now been found dead in the wildfire area near Thessaloniki in northern Greece, as firefighters battled the blaze for a second day. In Monaco, police are still hunting for the person behind a parcel bomb that injured a Ukrainian born businessman and two others in a residential building near the French border.  🔗 🔗

Germany’s domestic security service warned that threats from hostile foreign powers and extremist groups are growing, while Australia and China traded criticism after Beijing’s ambassador attacked ASIO over a video shown before a national security speech in Canberra. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, diplomats in Sarajevo failed to agree on a successor to the high representative, prolonging a transatlantic dispute.  🔗 🔗 🔗

In Asia, a conflict monitor said Myanmar’s civil war death toll has passed 100,000 since the 2021 coup, a grim milestone for a war with no clear end. North Korea’s Kim Jong Un also sent a congratulatory message to Xi Jinping marking the Chinese Communist Party’s 105th anniversary, while Algeria is voting in parliamentary elections seen as a test of the post Hirak political landscape.  🔗 🔗 🔗

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In the United States, the Supreme Court struck down federal limits on coordinated campaign spending in a 6 to 3 ruling, a decision Donald Trump hailed as a major expansion of presidential power. Trump also used Truth Social to praise allies, signal leadership turnover at the Council of Economic Advisers, and repeat his support for the slogan “FREE TINA!”.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

US law enforcement also announced a series of cases, including the arrest of Catherine Beth Washburn in New York for allegedly trying to aid Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the indictment of five Fresno men in a firearms trafficking conspiracy, and the recovery of $19.5 million in China linked pump and dump cases. Cuba meanwhile said talks with Washington over sanctions have stalled.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

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