Day News Recap: Kyiv hit by deadly strikes as Iran tensions, Gaza talks and Europe’s crises deepen

Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv killed at least nine people and injured 28 more overnight, with rescue work still under way as officials searched for survivors in the capital.  🔗

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The war in Ukraine also widened beyond Kyiv, with Russia saying it struck fuel storage in Odesa and a tugboat in Mykolaiv, while Poland summoned the Russian ambassador after confirming a missile landed in Tarnawa Kolonia in the Lublin region.  🔗  🔗

Tensions around Iran rose sharply after renewed US and Iranian strikes ended a brief pause in hostilities, with Washington and Tehran trading threats and warnings of wider escalation. Donald Trump again threatened to bomb Iran’s suspected underground Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site, Iran warned it would retaliate if the US hit its energy infrastructure, and two tanker incidents near the Strait of Hormuz prompted fresh maritime caution.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Israel’s Gaza campaign remained volatile, with a senior Israeli official saying troops will not withdraw unless Hamas is genuinely disarmed, even as Palestinians in Gaza voiced scepticism that any disarmament pledge would bring lasting change. Separate Israeli strikes killed two people in Gaza City and destroyed medicine warehouses near a hospital.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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Elsewhere in the Middle East, Kuwait said hostile drones were destroyed after an attack targeting government facilities and property on Bubiyan Island, while the Houthis denied plans to charge ships transiting the Red Sea and Bab al Mandeb. Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in Iraq also said their bases had been heavily hit since the Iran Israel war began.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Europe faced a string of emergencies, with wildfires spreading across several areas of Greece, including near Athens, as strong winds hampered firefighting, and a 4.7 magnitude earthquake near Naples injured at least 21 people and triggered evacuations in the Campi Flegrei area. In Spain, authorities said the surge of migrants into Ceuta from Morocco was easing as many who crossed began returning voluntarily, although the death toll rose.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo said its Ebola outbreak had become the world’s second largest on record, with 3,532 confirmed cases and 1,556 deaths.  🔗 In Sri Lanka, a court sentenced former police chief Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Ministry secretary Hemasiri Fernando to death over the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, a ruling expected to face appeal.  🔗

In Asia, India’s Narendra Modi said he forgave students who shouted abuse at him during the Cockroach protests, and nationwide demonstrations ended after education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned over a leaked exam paper. In the Americas, Venezuela’s government and a section of the opposition prepared US backed talks on elections, while in the United States prosecutors filed 115 border related cases in Southern California, a Virginia CEO pleaded guilty in an FDA related mail fraud case, and a complaint was unsealed against a Turkish resident accused of supporting Hamas.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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In Britain, Labour retained the Greater Manchester mayoralty after Bev Craig won a low turnout contest following a two round count.  🔗 Italy and Denmark also circulated a letter to EU leaders signed by 22 heads of state and government, underscoring continued diplomatic coordination in Europe.  🔗

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