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The first story covered renewed warnings between Tehran and Washington. Iran said it had received indications that the United States was preparing to resume military operations against it and warned that any American attack would trigger retaliation. President Trump told Fox News that Iran's leaders should make a deal, rot economically or be wiped out. The US State Department warned that fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthis could escalate rapidly after a missile attack on Riyadh; the Houthis said Saudi Arabia had carried out 28 strikes in 24 hours and their leadership said they would not close the Bab al-Mandab Strait or target the US, only Saudi assets. Figures showed Iran's GDP dropped 10.1 percent year on year amid sanctions, and an analyst said the Iranian regime was focused on survival and could withstand economic pressure, while noting US concerns about defensive munitions such as Patriot rounds.

Ukraine carried out large-scale drone attacks on Moscow and its surrounding region, which the capital's mayor called the largest such attack on Moscow yet, saying 450 drones had been directed at the city since Saturday. An oil refinery was damaged, and officials said two people were killed and at least six injured. The attacks coincided with the final day of Russia's parliamentary election, which critics dismissed as neither free nor transparent and which the Kremlin was expected to use to claim national unity behind President Putin. Ukrainian officials said eight people, including three children, were killed in Russian attacks in the Kyiv and Sumy regions on Saturday. President Zelensky said he and US President Trump agreed to meet in New York at the UN General Assembly after a phone call, and an analyst discussed the election, possible mobilization and the exclusion of the anti-war Yabloko party.

In Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz called state election results a disaster for his center-right CDU after losses in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin. Projections showed the far-right AfD on track to win the most votes in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where the CDU suffered its worst ever result and reportedly failed to enter the state parliament; in Berlin the CDU came second to Die Linke as the AfD doubled its share. Merz vowed to stay in office and pursue economic reforms, while a correspondent reported public anxiety over immigration, the economy and the cost of living. In South Africa, hundreds attended the funeral of Elisabeth Moselegomo, one of nine women murdered near Johannesburg in two months, amid protests and outrage over gender-based violence; a researcher said six to seven women are killed daily in South Africa and cited gender inequality, childhood violence, alcohol, guns and policing failures. The broadcast also reported the arrest of Aleema Khan, sister of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan; an alliance of seven armed groups in Ethiopia seeking to remove the government; protests in Barcelona against airport expansion; and light art on historic buildings in Pula, Croatia.