Day News Recap: Deadly Gulf attacks, Ukraine strikes and global unrest dominate a grim day

Repeated Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia's King Khalid International Airport killed 12 people and wounded 309, leaving Riyadh's airport shut as the fallout widened and Donald Trump said the United States may join Saudi strikes on the Houthis.  🔗  🔗

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Security in the Gulf deteriorated further as attacks and warnings spread around the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, where an Iranian Guard report said a petrol tanker hit a naval mine and exploded, and US forces later disabled a cargo ship that allegedly ignored repeated warnings.  🔗  🔗  🔗 Shipping firms were also said to be offering captains premiums of up to US$100,000 a month to keep tankers moving through the strait.  🔗

In Ukraine, Russian guided aerial bombs struck residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people including three children, while Yandex said its data centre in Vladimir was damaged in a third drone attack this week and operations were fully suspended.  🔗  🔗

Yemen's conflict deepened on several fronts, with the government's air campaign shifting into Sanaa and causing civilian casualties, while hospitals in Taiz were reported to be close to collapse as fuel, medicines and other supplies ran critically low under the siege.  🔗  🔗

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Elsewhere in Africa, at least 109 migrants died when a boat carrying more than 300 people capsized off Djibouti, and Ebola spread to a new health zone in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as Kenya confirmed its first imported fatal case.  🔗  🔗 Ethiopia and Eritrea also traded accusations at the United Nations as fighting intensified in Tigray.  🔗

In the Americas, Hurricane Simon strengthened into a Category 4 storm as it approached west central Mexico, while Hurricane Isaias left at least four people dead as it moved across the southeastern United States.  🔗  🔗 In Pennsylvania, nine people including a pregnant woman and children were found dead after a shooting at a home in Erie, with police saying the suspected gunman was among the dead.  🔗

Political tensions and unrest continued elsewhere, with Poland investigating an alleged plot against Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak Kamysz, Pakistan imposing emergency rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and India bracing for a second day of protests over a disputed voter roll revision after mass detentions.  🔗  🔗  🔗 In Myanmar, recruitment quotas for the junta were said to be driving street abductions in Hpa An.  🔗

In the Middle East peace track, Mahmoud Abbas postponed Palestinian elections from November 2026 to 11 September 2027, drawing criticism from Israel, while in Rotterdam hundreds of doctors protested at the World Medical Association summit over the Israeli Medical Association's membership.  🔗  🔗

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Donald Trump also claimed an immediate energy ceasefire in the Russia Ukraine war, repeated sweeping peace claims, and said Iran had been stopped from getting a nuclear weapon, while the UK said it did not support his reported diesel deal with Vladimir Putin and Russia separately eased some diesel export curbs after a US authorised strategic reserve oil release.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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