Breakfast News Recap: Trump escalates Iran warnings as Ukraine hits Russian fuel sites and Cuba blacks out again

Donald Trump has escalated tensions with Iran, saying the ceasefire is over, warning the United States would “completely decimate” the country if it tried to assassinate him, and giving Tehran until Saturday to publicly commit to ending attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. He also said talks with Iran would continue, even as satellite images suggested fresh activity at Iranian nuclear sites.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

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In Gaza, an Israeli drone attack injured hospital staff and nearby civilians at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, adding to pressure on the enclave’s health system. The report said the strike hit around the hospital in northern Gaza.  🔗

Ukraine said it struck Russia’s shadow fleet and oil infrastructure overnight, hitting Taganrog port and the Kurgannefteprodukt depot and triggering a fire and emergency evacuations, as fuel shortages deepen inside Russia. Separately in Kyiv, a Ukrainian intelligence agent denied killing Anastasiia Berezovska in a case linked to a Monaco bomb plot, after previously confessing to the killing.  🔗 🔗

In the United States, Trump removed the last members of the US Election Assistance Commission, leaving the federal election body without sitting commissioners ahead of the midterms. Prosecutors also said eight people have now been charged over an alleged plot to attack a UFC event at the White House in June, after a West Virginia arrest expanded the case.  🔗 🔗

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Britain saw a major political and criminal story, with police questioning a 26 year old man arrested on suspicion of murdering former MP and MEP Ann Widdecombe. In a separate development, Andy Burnham was reported to be on course to become Britain’s next prime minister after winning overwhelming backing from Labour MPs in the first stage of the contest.  🔗 🔗

Across the Americas, Cuba suffered its second island wide blackout in less than a week, underlining the island’s fragile power system. In Brazil, official figures showed Amazon deforestation fell to its lowest level in a decade in the first half of 2026 under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In Peru, president elect Keiko Fujimori signalled she wants to restore diplomatic ties with Mexico after a months long rupture.  🔗 🔗 🔗

In Africa, Nigeria said security forces rescued dozens of schoolchildren and teachers abducted from three schools in Oyo state 56 days ago, a rare positive development in the country’s kidnapping crisis. In Central America, Nicaragua stripped large numbers of lawyers of their certification, in what critics described as a widening crackdown on dissent.  🔗 🔗

In the Asia Pacific region, Narendra Modi arrived in Auckland on the final leg of his three nation tour, the first visit by an Indian prime minister to New Zealand in 40 years. Georgia’s absence from the NATO summit partner list in Turkey also prompted debate in Tbilisi over whether the country is being pushed to the margins of the alliance.  🔗 🔗

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