Monday 28 September 2026

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Iran Reports Hitting 19 Ships While Trump Says 29 Got Out

Sep 28

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Iran Reports Hitting 19 Ships While Trump Says 29 Got Out

Tehran reports 19 ships hit and a second US drone seized, and the analysts who agreed a week ago on a post-midterm strike now split on whether it comes at all.

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A daytime attack on Kyiv

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Drones hit the National Academy of Sciences and the Dobrobut medical centre in the afternoon. That evening Zelensky says Russia has already begun a new round of mobilisation.

Bonds sink, gold drops, oil jumps on headlines

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The 10-year yield climbs past 5.2 percent and gold has one of its sharpest one-day falls in two decades, while Brent swings on each midday headline about US-Iran talks.

Corruption tops Ukrainians’ worries

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A KIIS poll puts corruption ahead of Russian strikes as the country’s biggest concern, the same day a Defence Ministry letter on Fire Point’s drone contracts circulates.

Iran

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Israel

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Ukraine & Russia

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American power

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Also that day

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Monday 28 September 2026

Iran Reports Hitting 19 Ships While Trump Says 29 Got Out

Iran Reports Hitting 19 Ships While Trump Says 29 Got Out

A daytime attack on Kyiv

Drone strike on the National Academy of Sciences building in Kiev

Kiev high-rise burns after the September 28 strike

Helmet-camera footage of firefighters inside the burning Academy of Sciences building in Kiev

Zelensky: "The Russians have already begun additional mobilisation"

Plume beside a queue of trucks near the Yahodyn crossing with Poland

Bonds sink, gold drops, oil jumps on headlines

Histogram of daily gold price changes since 2006 with a normal curve, and a red dashed line far in the left tail marked Sept 28, 2026, drop minus 3.40 percent, z-score minus 2.90

Corruption tops Ukrainians’ worries

Lviv recruitment officers bundle a man into a vehicle as a woman tries to stop them

Iran

Crowds with flags at the entrance to Najaf airport over the halt to Iranian flights

Trump: imagine Iran taking out a city with a nuclear weapon

Trump: "Israel would be wiped out right now" without the war

Trump: inflation "going to be eradicated totally" once the war ends

Ex-deputy CENTCOM commander Harward and Rattansi clash over whether Iran was a threat

Rattansi to Harward: the US backed Saddam as he used chemical weapons on Iran

Iran's Ali Alipour salutes the flag after winning weightlifting gold at the Asian Games

USS George Washington runs flight operations in the Arabian Sea

Rubio on the RAF Fairford arrests: "clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor"

Iran's National Orchestra opens Iranian Culture Week at the Bolshoi

Israel

Miliband to Labour conference on Palestine: "We hear you. You were right."

Smotrich: "the biggest key" to Gaza emigration is to "take away their hope"

Dave Smith: "genocidal maniacs" hold the number two and three posts in Israel's government

Megyn Kelly on the Google Earth images of Gaza: "I can't help but think of Charlie Kirk"

Courtney Bonneau from south Lebanon: "Your tax money is being used to murder unarmed men, women and children"

Ukraine & Russia

Kallas: Europe's air defence stocks are short, but member states should still send to Ukraine

Sweden's Air Force plans to strike deep inside Russia if attacked

American power

Trump on Canada: "they're going to say, sir, we are sorry"

Trump's "strongly disapprove" number going into the midterms, beside the Polymarket odds

Trump sits with his eyes down during an Oval Office announcement

Also that day

China's foreign ministry: "firmly support Cuba" in safeguarding its sovereignty