Noontime News Recap: Ukraine hit by overnight strikes as regional tensions and rights disputes deepen

Russian missile and drone strikes overnight hit several regions of Ukraine, killing at least three people and damaging industrial and energy infrastructure, in the latest attack on the country’s power and production network.  🔗

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In the Middle East, the G7 called on Yemen’s Houthi movement to stop attacks on Saudi Arabia and civilian shipping after a renewed escalation that included a strike on Riyadh, while Iran and Pakistan held talks in Tehran as regional diplomacy continued amid rising US tensions.  🔗  🔗

Australia faced two separate security and policy disputes, with officials investigating how F 35 fighter jet parts bound for the United States were diverted to Hong Kong and remain unaccounted for months later, and the government extending the Defence Force post service call up obligation for new recruits to ten years after leaving service.  🔗  🔗

In Washington, the White House media fight widened as several major US television networks and newspapers expanded a boycott of pooled coverage of President Donald Trump after the administration barred CNN, Politico and The New York Times from the arrangement.  🔗

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Russia said its vice foreign minister, Alexander Alimov, was denied a US visa ahead of the UN General Assembly, calling it an act of hostility, while in Australia the United States also criticised proposed digital duty of care laws, warning they could facilitate censorship.  🔗  🔗

In South Asia and the wider region, a Sri Lankan court is due to deliver verdicts in the long running Easter bombings case involving Naufer Moulavi and 23 others, with the 2019 attacks having killed 270 people and injured more than 500.  🔗

Rights and detention concerns also continued elsewhere, as a British couple held in Iran for more than 20 months were still said to lack regular family contact, and women and children at Syria’s Roj camp reported worsening raids, extortion and violence.  🔗  🔗

In Europe, ministers in Brussels intensified talks on the European Union’s next seven year budget, with divisions still unresolved over spending priorities, while Berlin reacted to a historic result that put The Left ahead in the capital even as the AfD made gains elsewhere.  🔗  🔗

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