Day News Recap: Ukraine hit by deadly strikes as Hormuz tensions and regional shocks mount

Russian strikes killed at least six people across Ukraine, including four in the Kyiv region and a child in Brovary, as local authorities reported attacks in several areas while Kyiv kept up strikes on Russian logistics targets.  🔗  🔗

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Tensions around the Strait of Hormuz deepened after Iran set out demands it says the United States must meet before the waterway can fully reopen to shipping, while the UAE said an ADNOC tanker was struck by a missile and Gulf states condemned the attack.  🔗  🔗

ADNOC later said 15 vessels had been attacked in the strait, with one fatality and 20 injuries, underlining the scale of the disruption to a route that carries a large share of global oil supplies.  🔗

In Washington, the US Senate passed a tougher sanctions bill targeting Russia’s energy revenues, adding pressure on Moscow’s war funding, while the White House also revived efforts to remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud allegations.  🔗  🔗

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Conflict and insecurity also intensified elsewhere, with Houthi attacks in Yemen’s Marib province killing at least 10 people, Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief meeting Iraq’s prime minister in Baghdad to ease post strike tensions, and Lebanese authorities detaining a former Syrian general in Beirut as they weighed handing him over to Damascus.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In Africa, the World Health Organization said Ebola vaccine experts want a full scale human trial of the licensed Ervebo vaccine as the outbreak in DR Congo passed 4,000 cases, while the United Nations warned that Sudan’s war has left more than 8 million school age children out of school.  🔗  🔗

Across Asia Pacific, Typhoon Dolphin battered Okinawa and cut power to at least 44,000 buildings, China braced for landfall, Port Hedland strike action threatened BHP iron ore shipments, and New South Wales confirmed its first H5 avian influenza cases in native birds.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Other developments included a US federal appeals court blocking Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom project, the Senate narrowly confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general, and a drone explosion near Bulgaria’s Trans Balkan gas pipeline close to the Romanian border.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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Politics and diplomacy also moved in several capitals, with Texas polling showing Democrats gaining ground in Senate and governor races, US backed diplomacy on Libya power sharing gathering momentum, the ICC urging Chad and Venezuela to reverse withdrawal plans, an opposition MP throwing eggs at Kosovo’s acting prime minister, and a Victorian election registration dispute over a misleading party name.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Separately, the Pentagon committed $560 million to an Australian scandium project in New South Wales, the World Food Programme moved to renew its Palantir contract despite privacy concerns, and US prosecutors filed 107 border related cases in Southern California.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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