Breakfast News Recap: Kyiv under deadly attack as Iran talks, Gaza tensions and market moves dominate

Kyiv came under a deadly overnight Russian drone and missile attack that killed at least 10 people and injured more than 50, with officials saying residential areas were damaged and a fire broke out in the city centre during the air raid alert.  🔗 🔗

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The strikes came as Russia's own petrol crisis deepened, with the report saying shortages are increasingly being felt by ordinary citizens and adding to the pressure created by the war in Ukraine.  🔗

In the Middle East, Iran said it will open a communication channel with the United States to report breaches of the ceasefire memorandum after Doha talks, while separate US and Iranian negotiations in Qatar ended after two days focused on the Strait of Hormuz and frozen funds. Brent crude fell below $71 a barrel on the news of progress in the talks.  🔗 🔗 🔗

Gaza remained volatile, with an Israeli drone strike killing at least three Palestinians near al Hilu station in Gaza City, and the UN warning that expanded Israeli control in Gaza is raising civilian risk under the ceasefire framework.  🔗 🔗

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Elsewhere in the region, US led post war planning for Gaza advanced through secretive meetings in Cyprus, while the US Navy said a Sea Hawk helicopter made an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea and one crew member is missing.  🔗 🔗

Israel's war in Lebanon also left a lasting mark, with residents of southern villages such as Naqoura saying repeated military operations have made their communities uninhabitable.  🔗

In Europe, Greece faced a grim day as wildfires forced evacuations and killed two near Thessaloniki, while a separate explosion and fire at an apartment building in the city killed the mother of a politician from the ruling New Democracy party.  🔗 🔗

Germany filed charges over the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline blasts, accusing a 50 year old Ukrainian national as the case moved forward, and in Malta Yorgen Fenech went on trial over the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.  🔗 🔗

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Across Asia and the Pacific, India announced a major reshuffle of senior military leadership across the Army and Air Force, condemned the demolition of a 125 year old gurdwara in Pakistan's Farooqabad, and Australia approved a $160 million joint government loan to support the Phosphate Hill fertiliser operation in north west Queensland after flooding damaged endangered turtle nesting sites and disrupted breeding.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

In the Americas, the US Supreme Court expanded coordinated political spending by parties in a 6 to 3 ruling, a federal judge blocked proposed mail in ballot restrictions in Washington, DC, and the White House also designated Ecuador's Chone Killers gang as a foreign terrorist organisation. Separately, a top US diplomat in Taiwan urged the island to build a dense drone force to deter conflict, while a judge in Texas sentenced seven North Texas Antifa operatives over the Prairieland Detention Center attack and a former trading firm executive received 24 years for a $179 million fraud.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

In other US legal and security cases, an alleged Scattered Spider member was arrested in Finland and extradited to the United States, and a Cuyahoga County man pleaded guilty in a federal bank robbery case tied to threats against local bank employees.  🔗 🔗

In the wider diplomatic picture, Syria finalised its new 210 seat parliament, the UAE president spoke by phone with Syrian president Ahmed al Sharaa, and Trump used Truth Social to promote an America 250 anthem and press Senate Republicans to fire the parliamentarian to clear the way for legislation.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

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