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The day in 90 seconds: escalation in the Strait of Hormuz, a Bulgarian veto over Patriarch Kirill freezing EU sanctions on Russia, and coalition strain across the UK, Germany and Czechia.
Lindsey Graham's death leaves his Russia sanctions bill without an author and opens a Senate seat fight shadowed by Iran's widening strikes on US bases across the Gulf.
Barely a year after taking office, Ukraine’s prime minister is on her way out. Zelenskyy calls it an “updated political strategy”; the still-unnamed successor will reveal what that means — to Kyiv and to Brussels.
From Andalusia's deadliest wildfire in years to Typhoon Bavi hammering Taiwan alongside a new Chinese law against pro-independence speech, plus a CDU leadership scramble in Berlin, a stalled murder probe in Britain, and a DOJ subpoena of NYT reporters — the day in geopolitics in 90 seconds.
The day's thread is fragile truces under strain: US-Iran fighting resumes around Khamenei's funeral, Ukraine tightens the noose on Crimea's fuel supply, and Brussels scrambles to stop its own oil price cap jumping to $58.
The US–Iran conflict deepens after Khamenei's funeral, Germany's Tomahawk purchase firms up, the Commission sues seven member states, and Britain gets an uncontested next prime minister.
The UN health agency's latest figures put confirmed deaths at 600, with roughly one in three known cases proving fatal. What the numbers leave unsaid matters as much as what they show.
Typhoon Bavi is disrupting Taiwan and tracking toward the Chinese coast just as floods in southern China kill at least 39 people — a rare case of simultaneous disaster pressure on both sides of the strait.
Graham Platner ended his Maine Senate campaign Wednesday night after a woman alleged he forced her to have sex, a claim he denies. Democrats now scramble to field a replacement against Sen. Susan Collins in a race central to the fight for Senate control.
The threatened 'big attack' is now a sustained campaign: US forces struck Iran for a second consecutive day, an Iranian official warned Gulf states that Tehran has 'no red lines', and the ceasefire's collapse is driving oil prices higher.
The US–Iran war escalates and everything moves in its wake: oil up, growth forecasts down, NATO's Ankara summit fractious. Plus Patriot co-production for Ukraine, Le Pen's survival as a candidate, and five-hour queues waiting for British travellers.