Breakfast News Recap: War, elections and storms dominate a crowded global morning

Russia and Ukraine traded deadly overnight drone and missile strikes, with two men killed and 17 people, including a child, injured in Russia's Voronezh region, while Ukraine also reported fresh attacks as the war continued to spill across the border.  🔗

Diplomacy around the conflict is also shifting, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying a trilateral meeting involving Ukraine, the United States and Russia is planned for November, and Vladimir Putin separately floating a three way summit with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on the war in Ukraine.  🔗  🔗

In the Middle East, Jordanian security forces arrested three suspects linked to the deadly church attack in Karak after a search lasting several days, as authorities moved to close the case.  🔗 Iran hosted regional security talks in Tehran with officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, a meeting framed by all sides against the backdrop of wider regional tensions.  🔗

Saudi Arabia partially reopened two terminals at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh after renewed Houthi threats and fresh interceptions, even as the group vowed to keep targeting the airport.  🔗 Separately, the United States said more than 3,000 commercial vessels had transited the Strait of Hormuz with its support over the past six months, underlining the importance of keeping Gulf shipping moving.  🔗

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Israel is heading into a high stakes legislative election on Tuesday, with the vote seen as one of the most important in the country's history amid war and deep political polarisation.  🔗 Israeli diaspora activists are also organising large scale travel to bring citizens home from overseas to vote in the contest.  🔗

In the Americas, Brazil's electoral court declared Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva the winner of the presidential runoff, confirming a fourth term for the leftist leader after a tight count.  🔗 In North America, Donald Trump said the trade dispute with Canada could be resolved soon, while still defending higher tariffs on Canadian goods at a rally in Port Huron.  🔗

Elsewhere, North Korea escalated its dispute with South Korea over an alleged landmine blast in the Demilitarized Zone by taking the matter to the UN Security Council.  🔗 In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a nurse was killed and another health worker severely injured during an attack in Bafwasende while they were responding to Ebola, prompting Uganda to order a 21 day quarantine for returnees from the DRC.  🔗  🔗

Europe also saw political and weather disruption, with Serbia's Student List winning 140 of 250 parliamentary seats and pushing the Serbian Progressive Party into opposition, while thousands protested in Prague against a government plan to overhaul public media funding.  🔗  🔗 Storm Boelo left one man dead in southwestern Scotland and cut power to more than 150,000 homes across the United Kingdom, France and Germany.  🔗 In Australia, south east Queensland faces a second round of storms with flash flooding, large hail and wind gusts of up to 90 km/h forecast.  🔗 Bulgaria's presidential election is meanwhile heading to a runoff after no candidate won outright in the first round.  🔗

Trump also used Truth Social to tout anti Iran strikes and urge Israelis to back Benjamin Netanyahu, adding to the political pressure around the region.  🔗

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