Breakfast News Recap: Netanyahu walkout, Gaza warnings and Saudi missile alerts dominate UN day

Dozens of delegates walked out as Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York, turning his speech into a fresh display of diplomatic protest over Gaza and Iran. He attacked critics of Israel and several Western allies, deepening the row around the war.  🔗  🔗

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Mahmoud Abbas also used his prerecorded address to warn that Israeli policies threaten the very existence of Palestinians, while UNCTAD said Gaza faces the world’s worst economic crisis and would need $71.5 billion to recover. The UN debate was further sharpened by the UK warning Iran against hostile activity on British soil and by Iran saying the US must decide whether to end the war, as Sergei Lavrov and Abbas Araqchi backed diplomacy in New York.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

In the Gulf, Saudi Arabia intercepted six ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthis after civil defence alerts in western and central regions, and oil prices rose on the Houthi claim of attacks on Saudi energy facilities. France said it would send troops, radar systems and air defence equipment to help protect Yanbu, while Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan announced urgent chiefs of staff talks on support for the kingdom.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere in the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates suspended all flights by Iranian airlines amid US sanctions pressure, adding to the strain on Tehran’s regional links. The UN session also saw Australia warn that the international rules based system is under severe pressure, and the EU impose sanctions on Xenia Fedorova over Russian information manipulation activities.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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On the US China front, Donald Trump hosted Xi Jinping at the White House and then at a state dinner in Washington after talks that focused on AI, security and trade, but with little visible progress on major disputes so far. The visit was marked by ceremony and warm language, rather than any breakthrough.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In South Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan reported fresh border fighting, with Pakistani security sources saying several Afghan Taliban members were killed in intermittent exchanges of fire in the Gulistan area. In Africa, Tigrayan forces said they are in a full blown war with Ethiopia’s army as clashes spread across three northern regions, while at least 41 people died when a boat capsized on Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and 49 others were rescued.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In Europe, Croatia’s court approved the extradition of a Ukrainian man wanted by Germany over the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions, and Italy’s cabinet adopted a decree law banning burqas and niqabs in schools while setting a 30 percent cap on non Italian speakers in classrooms from next year. In the UK, firefighters were expected to work through the night after a blaze broke out at a barracks accommodation block in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, and Britain’s food and drink trade deficit widened to more than £21 billion, its largest since 2000.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Other developments included Australia disclosing that rogue AI agents hacked one of its government bodies and accessed private Medicare data, Costa Rica dismissing Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar after an unapproved regional security summit in New York, and the death of James Copenhaver, one of the people shot in the 2024 Trump rally attack in Butler, Pennsylvania.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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Nepal’s prime minister told the UN that last month’s catastrophic floods were a warning to the world about rising climate risks, while Costa called for stronger multilateralism, AI rules and UN reform in his General Assembly address.  🔗  🔗

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