Four stories anchor Tuesday: an unidentified strike raises the stakes in the Strait of Hormuz, Ukraine's drones push deeper into Russian logistics, US states challenge Trump's tariffs in court, and Brussels papers over a Schengen dispute with Madrid.

Strait of Hormuz

  • An unidentified projectile hit a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz early Tuesday, per UKMTO, as Trump warns Iran faces a "last chance" before "decapitation" (more).
  • The struck bulk carrier caught fire with one seafarer missing, raising the odds Washington treats the strike as proof of Iranian involvement (more).
  • Reuters reports the Pentagon has fired nearly all its long-range precision missiles in the Iran war — the same stockpile it would need for Taiwan or NATO's eastern flank (more).

Russia-Ukraine War

  • Ukrainian drones killed at least six people in strikes on Wildberries warehouses in Moscow, St Petersburg and Tver, hitting logistics hubs for a second straight night (more).
  • A separate drone strike on an industrial zone outside Moscow killed five and wounded six, with Russia striking back in the same stretch of time (more).

United States

  • US states sued to block Trump's forced-labour tariffs on roughly 60 trading partners, testing the legal justification rather than the tariffs' economics (more).

European Union

  • EU home affairs ministers agreed only to tighten Schengen border rules after the Ceuta migrant surge, sparing Spain from sanctions that 22 member states had demanded (more).