Day News Recap: Iran crisis deepens as oil jumps, Gaza fighting continues and UK faces fresh disruption

The biggest escalation came around Iran, where Donald Trump said the war could continue until after the US midterm elections, while also renewing threats against a fortified site linked to the Iranian nuclear programme. The International Atomic Energy Agency separately referred Iran to the United Nations Security Council after its Board of Governors backed a resolution over nuclear non compliance.  🔗  🔗

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The conflict is already feeding through to the region and the economy. Oil prices climbed to about $105 a barrel as fears grew the Middle East crisis will not be resolved quickly, while the Iranian rial fell to new lows as war and blockade deepened the country’s economic strain.  🔗  🔗

In the wider 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. Reports also said Houthi forces seized the strategic port city of Mokha, and that missile and drone attacks hit civilian and energy sites in Saudi Arabia, injuring dozens and causing fires and disruption.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Fighting also continued in Gaza and southern Syria. Israeli strikes in northern Gaza killed at least four Palestinians and wounded others, while Benjamin Netanyahu made another visit to Israeli troops in an occupied stretch of southern Syria, drawing condemnation from Damascus.  🔗  🔗

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In Europe, the UK said two people had been arrested in London on suspicion of assisting Iran’s intelligence service, and a British man, Joshua Cammidge, appeared in court over an alleged Russian linked sabotage plot that will move to the Old Bailey. Separately, UK and NATO allies said they intercepted a Russian attempt to target an undersea cable near Svalbard.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Ukraine and Russia remained under heavy pressure from the air. Kyiv residents faced longer nights of sirens as Russian raids became more frequent, while Ukraine said its deepest ever strike inside Russia hit two gas condensate facilities in the Arctic. Russian airports also recorded record closures amid repeated drone related shutdowns, and Zelensky’s flight was delayed in Moldova after a Russian drone crossed into the country’s airspace.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Western support for Kyiv continued to build. Canada is preparing a package of air defence and energy support for Ukraine, while Amnesty International accused Russia of luring vulnerable foreigners with fake job offers and pushing them into military contracts to fight in Ukraine.  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere, the UK faced a major transport failure after more than 2,000 flights were cancelled because of an air traffic control technical fault that the Transport Secretary said was avoidable. In Ireland, inflation rose to 3.7% as energy prices increased, and in the United States the contiguous country recorded its hottest summer in 132 years amid widespread drought.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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Other developments included a passenger ferry fire off Palawan in the Philippines, which left at least five dead and 86 missing, and a rescue effort in Nepal where teams continued searching flooded hydropower tunnels after last month’s disaster. In Asia, South Korea said it was trying to determine whether Kim Jong un has an older son, Japan protested a UN world map over the disputed Kuril islands, and Hong Kong’s Dow Jones Publishing was convicted in a union rights case involving a Wall Street Journal reporter.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

In the Americas and other political news, Trump repeated his promise of a $5,000 payout to every adult American if Republicans win the midterms, while in Australia a Sydney businessman was sentenced in the country’s first foreign interference case and former Liberal MP Moira Deeming was named as Family First’s candidate in Victoria. Spain also declassified warnings that its intelligence services had flagged possible mass crossings into Ceuta before the border crisis.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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