Day News Recap: Ukraine toll rises as Iran tensions widen and Congo Ebola outbreak accelerates

The World Health Organization says Ebola is spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo faster than in any previous outbreak, as seven American aid workers who had been in the country on response work were quarantined in Kenya after new travel restrictions.  🔗  🔗

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In Ukraine, at least 13 people were killed in strikes across several regions, including Zaporizhzhia and Odesa, while separate Russian drone attacks hit port infrastructure in Mykolaiv and damaged three foreign registered vessels.  🔗  🔗

Kyiv also said it destroyed a Tu 95 bomber at Russia's Engels air base, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is facing domestic backlash after sacking defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a move that has triggered rallies in Kyiv and concern among senior European officials.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Across the Middle East, Iran said a US strike near a children's cancer hospital in Ahvaz forced the evacuation of 211 patients, while satellite images showed fresh damage inside the Bushehr nuclear complex after US strikes.  🔗  🔗

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Qatar said its air defences intercepted an Iranian missile barrage over Doha, Dubai authorities denied reports of explosions in the city centre, and Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned the Bab al Mandeb could become the next front in its conflict with Washington.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has also become more dangerous, with tankers described as highly targeted and the southern corridor shut, as Iran launched missiles and drones against several Gulf and regional states and the US approved a $1.96bn weapons sale to Saudi Arabia.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere in the region, Israel's parliament dissolved and set an October 27 election date, the US said it was scaling back a Trump backed Gaza reconstruction plan to a pilot camp near Rafah, and Syria said it seized a weapons shipment it claimed was bound for Hezbollah via Iraq.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In Europe, the UK Labour Party is due to confirm Andy Burnham as its next leader, while Britain formally nationalised British Steel after months of concern over its Chinese owner and a man was charged in the UK over alleged assistance to Iran's intelligence service.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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Further afield, Pakistan said raids killed 24 militants after a suicide attack near the Afghan border, the UN called for an independent probe into deaths in Pakistan administered Kashmir, and the prime minister warned renewed West Asia tensions could again hit the economy.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In Asia and the Pacific, China launched a 29 nation AI alliance in Shanghai, Japan revised imperial succession rules while keeping the ban on a female emperor and separately passed a law criminalising desecration of the national flag, and Papua New Guinea said it would close Taiwan's trade mission to reassure Beijing.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

China also drew criticism from the Philippines over an AI generated video mocking Manila on South China Sea tensions, while North Korea's Kim Jong Un hosted Wang Huning in Pyongyang and pledged to deepen ties with Beijing.  🔗  🔗

In the Americas, the United States said it will impose 25% tariffs on thousands of Brazilian imports from July 22, Donald Trump used a White House address to accuse China of election interference, and Ilhan Omar renewed her push for the US to join the International Criminal Court.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Trump also threatened broadcast sanctions after ABC and NBC declined to carry his primetime address, and the US announced visa restrictions targeting alleged far left terrorist groups and aligned networks.  🔗  🔗

Other developments included a deadly landslide near the Wujiang River in southwest China, a wildfire in the Cairngorms that has spread across 3.7 miles and forced evacuations, a major earthquake death toll in Venezuela rising to 4,930, and a court sentence of 12 years for the former motorway boss over the Genoa bridge collapse.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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