AnewZ Morning Brief - June 11th, 2025

Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief: here are the top news stories for June 10th, covering the latest developments you need to know.

1. Intense Russian drone attack on Kharkiv kills 2, injures 54

A nine-minute-long Russian drone attack on Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv in the middle of the night killed at least two people and injured 54, including five children, regional officials said on Wednesday.

The intense strikes with 17 drones sparked fires in 15 units of a five-storey apartment building and caused other damage in the city close to the Russian border, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

2. Zelenskyy hails EU's new Russia sanctions as 'important step'

The new package proposes banning transactions with Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines, as well as banks that engage in sanctions circumvention.

3. Austria school shooting death toll rises to 10

Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said six of those killed at the school were female and three were male, without giving any details of their ages. Graz Hospital later confirmed the death of a 10th person.

Karner said another dozen people had been injured but gave no further details about the victims. Austrian media said most were pupils.

4. Five nations and EU urge Trump not to impose new airplane tariffs

Five nations and the European Union, as well as airlines and aerospace firms worldwide, urged the Trump administration not to impose new national security tariffs on imported commercial planes and parts, documents released on Tuesday showed.

Airlines and planemakers have been lobbying President Donald Trump to restore the tariff-free regime under the 1979 Civil Aircraft Agreement that has yielded an annual trade surplus of $75 billion for the U.S. industry.

5. U.S. and China reach deal to ease export curbs, keep tariff truce alive

U.S. and Chinese officials said on Tuesday they had agreed on a framework to put their trade truce back on track and remove China's export restrictions on rare earths while offering little sign of a durable resolution to longstanding trade differences.

At the end of two days of intense negotiations in London, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters the framework deal puts "meat on the bones" of an agreement reached last month in Geneva to ease bilateral retaliatory tariffs that had reached crushing triple-digit levels.

6. Trump: National Guard will remain in Los Angeles until there is no danger

In the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that the California National Guard will remain deployed at immigration protests in Los Angeles “until there’s no danger.”

“When there’s no danger, they’ll leave,” said the president. “You would have had a horrible situation had I not sent them in.”

The president also continued to defend his decision to deploy the 4,000 National Guard members and 700 U.S. Marines.

“If we didn’t send out the National Guard, and last night, we gave a little additional help, Los Angeles would be burning right now,” said the president.

7. Los Angeles mayor issues curfew for downtown Los Angeles

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday issued a curfew for the city’s downtown following several days of intense protests against ICE raids that saw clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement, widespread vandalism and some looting, particularly during the late night and early morning hours.

The curfew will begin at 8 p.m. local time on Tuesday and last until 6 a.m. local time on Wednesday and apply to a 1-sqaure-mile area in downtown.

8. Argentina’s ex-president Kirchner sentenced to 6 years

Argentina's top court effectively banned two-term former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from office and upheld a six-year jail sentence, likely drawing a curtain on one of the country's most flamboyant and divisive political careers.

Kirchner, 72, a polarizing opposition figure and leftist president from 2007 to 2015, was convicted by a trial court in 2022 for a fraud scheme that steered public road work projects in the Patagonia to a close ally while she was president.

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