Breakfast News Recap: Madrid train crash kills 68 as Israel deadlock, Russia tensions and Europe fears mount

At least 68 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after two high speed trains collided south of Madrid, with investigators now trying to establish what caused one of Spain's deadliest rail disasters in years.  🔗

In Israel, the election aftermath remains unresolved, with Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc falling short of a governing majority and the count leaving the country in political limbo after its first vote since the October 7 attacks. Arab parties made historic gains, while fraud claims and accusations of exclusion from coalition talks added to the uncertainty.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Across the Middle East, Iran warned that any new Israeli led attack would have a devastating impact on international markets as votes were counted in Israel, while Turkey renewed its push for a maritime boundary deal with Egypt amid the wider Eastern Mediterranean dispute.  🔗  🔗

Russia said air defences intercepted most of 613 drones launched toward Moscow overnight, and President Vladimir Putin used a Moscow summit with African leaders to reject what he called neo colonialism and press for deeper ties. He also said Russia is in close contact with Elon Musk over satellite technology as Moscow expands its Rassvet internet project.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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Security tensions also rose in Asia, where North Korea fired around a dozen short range ballistic missiles off its east coast, while in Australia a teenager in the Northern Territory was charged over terrorism allegations after police said they found extremist material and 3D printed gun schematics.  🔗  🔗

European officials are warning that an alleged Russian sabotage campaign is deepening fears of escalation across the continent, as the European Union prepares a new tool to reduce strategic dependence on China and ministers prepare to discuss soaring fuel prices and winter supply concerns. Belgium's finance and tax agency was also hit by a cyberattack that took MyMinfin offline, and UN experts criticised French police over the handling of student protests.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

In the Americas, Donald Trump said the United States will receive 1 million barrels of Venezuelan oil after a military operation, while he also widened his push to investigate alleged voter fraud ahead of the midterms. In New York, federal authorities charged a Russian woman in a hate crime case after Manhattan stabbings, and in Florida two men were indicted in a federal fraud and money laundering case.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere, Sudan's war and inflation are leaving families in Khartoum struggling with soaring food prices and falling incomes, while UN investigators say civilians in El Obeid are trapped between drone attacks by the Rapid Support Forces and arbitrary arrests by the army. Australia also partly released a long secret inquiry into SAS culture and command failures in Afghanistan, and separately faced scrutiny over transparency on a methane leak linked to Santos's Darwin LNG plant as regulators warned the company over Barossa project non compliance.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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The United Nations General Assembly again called for an end to the US embargo on Cuba, but support for the resolution fell to a 30 year low amid a diplomatic row.  🔗

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