Breakfast News Recap: Binance outflows, Gaza strikes and cyberattacks mark a tense global morning

Binance said users withdrew $3.6bn after a record hack, even as the exchange resumed services in phases and processed $4.649bn in withdrawals and $1.01bn in deposits over the day, leaving a net outflow of about $3.6bn.  🔗

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In the Middle East, Israeli strikes in Gaza killed eight people in two separate attacks, while the ceasefire remained fragile and violence continued despite the truce.  🔗 Iran also warned that any future war with the United States could last longer than the last round of fighting, after Donald Trump said Washington could carry out more strikes.  🔗

Israeli forces kept up a siege on Hebron in the occupied West Bank for a 10th day after the 23 October attack that killed two Israeli soldiers, with officials warning of the possibility of a wider offensive.  🔗 Separately, Israel opened diplomatic ties with Somaliland in Hargeisa, where its first ambassador presented credentials and officials laid the cornerstone for an Israeli embassy.  🔗

Ukraine and Russia each accused the other of cyberattacks after emergency warning apps were hit as the longest local truce in the war ended, and Ukraine later reported false radiation alerts on its air raid app affecting Kyiv and the Lviv region.  🔗  🔗

In Europe, France opened an attempted murder probe after petrol bombs and other projectiles were thrown at police and gendarmes during protests, while Germany's unrest deepened in Frankfurt with officials saying more than 100 officers were injured in looting and clashes.  🔗  🔗 In Bulgaria, Iliana Iotova won the presidential runoff, with exit polls and estimates both putting her ahead of Andrey Gyurov amid debate over Black Sea security.  🔗  🔗

In the Americas, a private jet crash near Palm Beach in Florida killed nine people, with dashcam footage capturing the moment of impact near a busy roadway.  🔗 In Washington, Senator Chris Murphy was hospitalised after suffering a stroke at his son's hockey game, while Donald Trump closed his campaign rallies in Iowa and Kansas ahead of Tuesday's elections.  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere, a federal judge in Alaska dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit aimed at blocking certification of the state's US Senate race, and Canada said trade talks with the United States had made progress toward a future deal as midterms approached.  🔗  🔗 In the Asia Pacific, workers in Bangladesh's garment sector kept up protests for a third day, disrupting hundreds of factories across industrial hubs over wages, while five people including two children were rescued in Kiribati after drifting at sea for about three months.  🔗  🔗

The UN said its peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara has ended after the Security Council failed to renew the mandate, and the liquidation phase has now begun.  🔗

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