Breakfast News Recap: Iran tensions deepen as Ukraine, Gaza and UK disruptions add to global strain

Donald Trump said the war with Iran could continue until after the US midterm elections, as he renewed threats against a fortified site linked to Iran's nuclear programme and warned that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was being hit. He also told a Republican gathering in Dallas that he would defend the war and repeated his promise of a $5,000 payout to every American adult if Republicans keep power.  🔗  🔗

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The nuclear standoff sharpened further when the International Atomic Energy Agency formally referred Iran to the United Nations Security Council after its Board of Governors backed a resolution over non compliance. The move adds fresh diplomatic pressure on Tehran at a moment of heightened regional tension.  🔗

In the Middle East, Yemen's ambassador to Qatar warned that Houthi advances along the Red Sea coast could widen the war and threaten the Bab al Mandeb chokepoint, while Yemen's internationally recognised government accused Houthi fighters of killing three children, including a baby, in shelling in Marib. Separately, Saudi Arabia issued alerts after Houthi attacks, underlining the risk of spillover beyond Yemen's borders.  🔗  🔗

Israel remained on several fronts. An Israeli strike on a house in northern Gaza killed a family of four in the Beit Lahia Project area, according to Palestinian hospital and security sources. Benjamin Netanyahu also made a third visit to Israeli troops in an occupied stretch of southern Syria, drawing condemnation from Damascus.  🔗  🔗

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Netanyahu separately accused unnamed foreign actors of interference in Israel's election campaign and said he would sue Haaretz over a report claiming the United Arab Emirates had warned him before the 7 October attacks. Israel also escalated its row with London after the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on settlements in the occupied West Bank, prompting diplomatic retaliation and a muted US response.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Ukraine and the wider security picture stayed tense. Russia intensified jet powered drone attacks on Ukraine, using the new drones every day through August, according to analysis of Ukrainian Air Force data. In a separate incident, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said a drone nearly hit a plane carrying President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as it took off from Moldova on the way to Oslo.  🔗  🔗

Western security services also reported a foiled Russian operation in the Arctic, saying UK and NATO allies intercepted submarines that were attempting to destroy a vital undersea cable near Svalbard. In the UK, Joshua Cammidge, a 31 year old from Swindon, was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service in a case linked to alleged Russian sabotage.  🔗  🔗

Britain faced another major domestic disruption after an avoidable failure in air traffic control led to more than 2,000 flight cancellations, while a Chinese cargo ship completed a 25 day voyage through Russia's Northern Sea Route and arrived at Teesport in the UK, highlighting the growing strategic importance of Arctic shipping lanes.  🔗  🔗

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Elsewhere, the United States said another boat strike in the Caribbean Sea killed three people as part of its anti drug campaign, while climate and security stories continued to pile up, with the contiguous US recording its hottest summer in 132 years amid widespread drought. In Australia, a Sydney businessman was sentenced to three and a half years for reckless foreign interference, and authorities in South Australia were testing a juvenile whale carcass washed up near Victor Harbor for bird flu.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Other developments included Spain declassifying warnings that its intelligence services had flagged possible mass crossings into Ceuta before the border crisis, thousands protesting in Ljubljana as Israel opened its first embassy in Slovenia, and Hong Kong's court convicting Dow Jones Publishing in a union rights case involving a Wall Street Journal reporter.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In business and policy, the International Energy Agency said governments can strengthen gas security after supply shocks, while the European Commission said EU oil supplies remain secure despite Middle East volatility. In Australia, former Liberal MP Moira Deeming was named Family First's candidate for the Western Metropolitan Region in Victoria's coming state election, and in the United States former Navy civilian employee James Soriano was sentenced to 72 months for bribery and tax fraud, while Derly Alvarez Rodriguez was indicted over counterfeit Social Security cards and gun possession.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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