Breakfast News Recap: Ebola spreads in Congo as Middle East tensions, Ukraine strikes and oil risks mount
The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is still spreading, with health teams struggling to keep pace as the response lags behind the virus. 🔗
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In the Middle East, violence has widened on several fronts, with Houthi forces launching ballistic missile attacks on al Makha and Marib in Yemen, while UN peacekeepers said Israeli forces fired 455 projectiles into south Lebanon and breached Lebanese airspace 97 times over the same period. 🔗 🔗
Gaza diplomacy also remains stalled after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally rejected a 15 point peace plan drafted by the US led Board of Peace, deepening his public dispute with Donald Trump, who has defended the relationship. 🔗
Iran is under renewed pressure from Washington, with Trump demanding compensation for what he called decades of damage and saying Tehran should pay for deaths and destruction across Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Gaza, while talks over the Strait of Hormuz continue. 🔗 🔗
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Tehran has also reshuffled senior security and military posts after the death of a wartime commander, adding to signs of a wider internal shake up. 🔗
In Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said preliminary data suggests a North Korean ballistic missile was used in a Russian strike that killed a Ukrainian child, while a separate Russian missile attack on Zaporizhzhia killed five people and wounded 20, and officials in Kyiv reported another ballistic strike. 🔗 🔗
European security concerns widened further after US intelligence reportedly concluded Russia was behind the explosive laden drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig airport last week. 🔗 Meanwhile, Russia barred Yabloko, its only registered anti war party, from next month’s parliamentary elections after a Supreme Court ruling. 🔗
Elsewhere, Libya’s Zawiya refinery was hit by a drone attack that triggered a major fire at the country’s largest operating oil refinery, Oman is trying to contain a large oil spill from a stranded tanker off its southern coast, and British Columbia’s Bald Range Fire has forced more than 12,000 evacuations and left one woman dead. 🔗 🔗 🔗
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Other developments included Turkiye approving a conditional pardon bill for thousands of PKK linked fighters, the UK Ministry of Defence saying there is no evidence of a breach after a Chinese made component was found in Royal Navy drones, Trump signing an order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots, Trump Media launching a premium Truth Social API, and China’s Long March 7A rocket exploding after lift off in Wenchang. 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗
Trump also extended a 90 day Jones Act waiver, narrowing it to energy and commodities transport, as the administration’s trade and shipping policy continued to shift. 🔗
Financial glimpse
Wall Street closed sharply higher, with the Nasdaq Composite up 2.67% and the S&P 500 also advancing as technology, semiconductors and energy led a broad risk on move, while oil, gold and silver jumped. 🔗
Asia Pacific traded higher, with Tokyo leading gains as the Nikkei 225 surged and the yen weakened, while oil, gold, silver and natural gas all moved up in a risk repricing tied to inflation concerns. 🔗
Europe opened mixed, with the FTSE 100 slipping while the DAX, CAC 40 and Euro Stoxx 50 edged higher, as Brent crude and precious metals surged. 🔗
Sources in this recap
- 🔗 WHO says DRC Ebola outbreak is still spreading as response lags behind
- 🔗 Drone attack triggers major fire at Libya's Zawiya refinery
- 🔗 Houthis launch ballistic missile attacks on al-Makha and Marib as Yemen violence escalates
- 🔗 Zelenskyy says North Korean missile and up to 50,000 troops may be heading to Russia
- 🔗 Oman works to contain major oil spill from stranded tanker off southern coast
- 🔗 US intelligence believes Russia was behind Leipzig airport drone bomb incident
- 🔗 Netanyahu rejects US-led Gaza peace plan as Trump defends ties
- 🔗 Russian missile attack kills five in Zaporizhzhia as Kyiv reports ballistic strike
- 🔗 Russia bars Yabloko from parliamentary elections after Supreme Court ruling
- 🔗 British Columbia wildfire as evacuations top 12,000 and one woman dies
- 🔗 Iran and Trump trade demands as Strait of Hormuz talks continue
- 🔗 Turkiye approves conditional pardon bill for thousands of PKK fighters
- 🔗 UK MoD says no breach after Chinese-made component found in Royal Navy drones
- 🔗 Trump signs order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots
- 🔗 Iran reshuffles top security and military posts after wartime commander's death
- 🔗 Trump Media launches premium Truth Social API as market-moving access concerns grow
- 🔗 Chinese Long March 7A rocket explodes after lift-off in Wenchang
- 🔗 Trump extends Jones Act waiver 90 days, narrows it to energy and commodities
- 🔗 Trump says Iran should pay for damage and deaths across Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza
- 🔗 UN peacekeepers count 455 Israeli strikes and 97 airspace breaches in south Lebanon
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