Breakfast News Recap: Kyiv hit again as Gaza, Iran and trade tensions deepen across several fronts

Russia resumed missile and drone strikes on Kyiv after a pause in attacks expired, and officials said at least two people were killed and seven others wounded in the latest assault on the Ukrainian capital.  🔗

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In Ukraine, the chief prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko resigned after anti corruption investigators searched his offices over allegations linked to illegal call centre activity, adding a domestic political scandal to the war pressure.  🔗

In the Middle East, Israeli ministers have publicly advanced proposals for removing Palestinians from Gaza, even as the United States rejected forced transfer, sharpening debate over the territory’s future.  🔗 The United Nations also warned that large scale removal of rubble in Gaza could destroy evidence linked to alleged war crimes and genocide related crimes.  🔗

Fighting and ceasefire strains widened elsewhere in the region, with Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon killing 13 people, including women and children, in one of the deadliest attacks in the area in recent months.  🔗 In Yemen, forces loyal to the internationally recognised government said they had launched counterattacks against Houthi rebels in an effort to retake Sanaa.  🔗

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Tensions with Iran intensified after Tehran said it fired an advanced missile at US warships in the Gulf, while the International Atomic Energy Agency warned it still cannot verify Iran’s declared nuclear material more than a year after losing access to key facilities.  🔗  🔗 Separately, President Donald Trump said oil prices would fall if the United States won a war with Iran and Iran never got a nuclear weapon.  🔗

In Europe, the United Kingdom is expected to announce wider restrictions on buying goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, while Germany asked the International Court of Justice to dismiss Nicaragua’s Gaza genocide case.  🔗  🔗 Kosovo also formally agreed to join the US led Gaza Stabilization Force, becoming one of a small group of countries signed up for the mission.  🔗

Elsewhere in Europe and the Balkans, Friedrich Merz said he would remain in office after the far right Alternative for Germany won a landslide in Saxony Anhalt, and Serbia moved closer to a snap parliamentary election after the government proposed dissolving parliament amid months of anti government protests.  🔗  🔗

Across the wider world, Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on US goods took effect as the trade dispute deepened, Argentina said it will file criminal charges against Navitas Petroleum over Falklands oil operations, and the EU signed a new declaration with Greenland and Denmark in Nuuk alongside a $232 million investment package.  🔗  🔗  🔗 Nepal’s rescue teams focused on three hydropower tunnels after a glacier collapse flood, Indonesia began restoring air travel after a volcanic eruption shut major airports for two days, and Panama warned the canal could face further transit cuts if El Nino drought persists.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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In Asia Pacific and beyond, Syria said it had detained former Major General Mohammed Ali Durgham over alleged links to the 1982 Hama massacre and later crackdowns, Australia’s High Court heard a challenge to the ban on the White Australia party, and Mozambique opposition figure Venancio Mondlane prepared for a Supreme Court trial over post election protests.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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