Day News Recap: Gaza hunger deepens as regional violence, Ukraine tensions and market turmoil spread

Gaza's hunger crisis has reached catastrophic levels, with the Palestinian health ministry warning that malnutrition and starvation are now at extreme levels, while UNICEF said more than 340 children have been killed and hundreds more injured since the ceasefire agreement was announced. Israel also said commercial goods have been blocked from entering Gaza for a second day amid a tax dispute, adding to the pressure on civilians.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Violence in the wider Middle East also intensified. In Yemen, five people were killed and 16 injured when a Houthi missile hit the presidential palace area in Aden, while in the occupied West Bank masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives in Abu Falah, with witnesses reporting gunfire, tear gas and a vehicle set on fire.  🔗  🔗

Maritime security around the Gulf and the Black Sea remained under strain. New reports said Iran targeted at least 24 commercial vessels near the Strait of Hormuz over two weeks, and analysis found a record weekly number of ship attacks in and around the strait as oil shipments slowed. Separately, Romania said seven sailors were missing after drones struck two tankers near its Black Sea coast and set both vessels ablaze.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Ukraine and Russia remained locked in a widening confrontation. Ukrainian drones forced all four of Moscow's main airports to suspend operations overnight, while Poland scrambled fighter jets after Russian strikes hit western Ukraine close to the Polish border. In Brussels, EU leaders backed continued military and sanctions support for Kyiv, even as Washington and Kyiv traded sharper words over strategy.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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President Donald Trump said the United States is in denuclearisation talks with Russia and China, ruled out using a nuclear weapon against Iran, and left open the possibility of another strike on Iranian nuclear sites. He also condemned Ukraine's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries as a disgrace, while US senators called for an investigation into reported Starlink disruptions in Ukraine and Zelenskyy said access to Starshield had still not been fully restored.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere in the region, Lebanon said security forces were confiscating illicit arms after a truck carrying 780kg of explosives was intercepted, Syria reported damage to two oil and gas pipelines in separate attacks, and authorities arrested Ali Kayali, also known as Mihrac Ural, over alleged involvement in the 2013 Bayda and Baniyas massacres. Qatar also announced a major solar plant project in Lebanon, part of a wider energy cooperation push.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

In Asia, Ethiopia said an interim government will take control of Tigray after federal forces pushed back an uprising, Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing received a warmer welcome in Kuala Lumpur as ASEAN weighs reintegration, and Russia said it was ready to act as a mediator between Pakistan and Afghanistan as border tensions continued. China, meanwhile, urged Israel to halt West Bank settlement expansion during talks in Azerbaijan, where a rare regional summit brought together rival Middle Eastern and Asian leaders.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Other developments included deadly flooding in Istanbul, where at least three people have died and five remain missing, and a wildfire in East Java, Indonesia, where four people were killed after a firefighting team was trapped by smoke and flames. In India, security was tightened in New Delhi ahead of a rally by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party, while Azerbaijan saw rare protests over a school hijab ban.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

In the Americas, Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores pleaded not guilty in Manhattan to a new US indictment accusing them of conspiring to torture political opponents, a South Los Angeles man was arraigned on federal sex trafficking and kidnapping charges, and the Justice Department sued California over more than 20,000 likely noncitizen voter registrations. In Iowa, Republicans were also weighing whether to stay with Trump as the midterms approach.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Europe's political agenda was dominated by war, energy and migration. Italy's Giorgia Meloni told the Senate that Europe faces war, energy pressure and security threats, then joined Mette Frederiksen and Rob Jetten for an informal migration meeting in Brussels. Separately, Russia seized assets of five more European companies under interim control, while Norway's wealth fund was urged to loosen its nuclear arms ban after a Gaza investment row.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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