Breakfast News Recap: Russia war pressure rises as Brazil heads to runoff and Asia markets rally

Russia and Ukraine remained at the centre of the news, with Kyiv hit again by a Russian missile that struck the Northern Bridge, injured two people and forced traffic to stop, while Ukraine said it was ready for US backed trilateral talks with Russia this month. Separately, a suspected pneumonic plague death in Russia's Irkutsk region is being watched closely by health authorities in Russia and the United States.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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In the Middle East, Yemen's internationally recognised president said government forces had launched military operations to retake territory still held by the Houthis, as fresh strikes continued. Oil markets also stayed in focus, with provisional shipping data suggesting Middle East crude exports rose above pre war levels on several days in the last week of September despite continued tension around the Strait of Hormuz.  🔗  🔗

Israel faced several separate developments, including reports that a Flydubai co pilot allegedly attacked a colleague and planned to crash a plane into Ben Gurion airport, and a sharp Israeli response to the UK Green Party's vote to define Zionism as racism. More than 500 former EU leaders and senior officials also called for sanctions over Israel's E1 settlement project.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In Europe and the wider region, Bosnia's election produced a victory claim from Bosnian Serb nationalist Milorad Dodik, while Cvijanović led the presidency race. Ireland and Israel drew 1-1 in the Nations League, in a match overshadowed by political tension and a spitting allegation.  🔗  🔗

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Brazil's presidential race went to a runoff after no candidate won an outright majority, with Senator Flavio Bolsonaro finishing ahead of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the first round and the second round set for 25 October. In South Asia, thousands kept protesting in New Delhi and Mumbai for a third day over disputed voter roll revisions, with police detentions continuing.  🔗  🔗

Pakistan's PTI launched a mass rally toward Islamabad after talks with the government failed, as supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan began marching from northwest Pakistan. In East Africa, Ethiopian federal forces and allied fighters entered and took control of Mekelle, deepening the Tigray conflict and raising humanitarian concern.  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere, Japan moved ahead with plans for a new centralised intelligence agency, its first such body since World War II, citing regional tensions. France said it would fully or partially close up to 500 schools as student protests resumed over class sizes and teacher shortages. Nicaragua said it would immediately withdraw from the Central American Parliament amid renewed rights criticism.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In the United States, Donald Trump announced a new federal artificial intelligence task force called the Super Intelligence Force, while also attacking election integrity in posts that falsely compared US vote counting with India and separately claimed the Kennedy Center was unsafe and urged a judge to let him act. The US also confirmed all B 1 bombers deployed to RAF Fairford had returned to their home stations after a security scare.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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