Morning Brief, Sunday 8 November

Poland moved from the first shock of the Kraków shooting into investigation and mourning. Police say a 24-year-old Polish man opened fire from a car in the Main Market Square, killing six people, four women and two men, and wounding about 15 others. Officers pursued the car, shot the suspect and took him to hospital, where he underwent two operations. Police found more weapons and a large quantity of ammunition inside the vehicle, and they dismissed early reports of a second suspect.

Marcin Kierwiński, the interior minister, said the suspect appeared to have been influenced by far-right ideology, though police have not established a motive. Investigators then found three bodies in the suspect's home. Donald Tusk said they were two women and a man, probably his relatives, while media reports identified them as his parents and sister. Officers evacuated the house while they checked for further weapons or explosives.

Poland began two days of national mourning, with flags at half-mast, entertainment events cancelled and broadcasters changing programming. Police chief Marek Boron said the dead included three Polish women, one British citizen and two people still being identified. Two police officers were wounded, and Donald Tusk named them as Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański. Students from a liceo in Albano Laziale, Italy, were moved to safety from the square. Spain's prime minister sent public condolences.

Isaac Herzog will ask Gadi Eisenkot to try to form Israel's next government after consultations with the factions of the 120-seat Knesset. Eisenkot, a former chief of the military general staff and leader of the centrist Yashar party, is due at the President's Residence in Jerusalem for a formal ceremony on Sunday at 17:00. His party finished second in the 27 October election, behind Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud, but more lawmakers recommended Eisenkot than Netanyahu.

The arithmetic explains the president's move and the difficulty of the job. Sixty-seven members of parliament recommended Eisenkot, 46 backed Netanyahu and seven from United Torah Judaism recommended nobody, reportedly because they were unhappy about the lack of an exemption from compulsory military service for religious school students. Under Israel's Basic Law, Eisenkot gets 28 days to form a government, with a possible 14-day extension. If he fails, another candidate can receive 28 days, and a final 21-day period can then open for 61 lawmakers to propose a nominee.

Benjamin Netanyahu called for a national unity government that would include national-camp and Zionist parties. Eisenkot replied that Likud could join only if it publicly ended its alliance with Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, accepted his principles and agreed to serve under him as prime minister. Arab-led parties have backed Eisenkot, though some parts of his bloc dislike relying on them, and ultra-Orthodox parties could also give him a governing path.

Russia struck Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions overnight with ballistic missiles and drones, hours after Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow was preparing another large infrastructure attack. Ukrainian officials said residential buildings, a kindergarten and other structures in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district were damaged by blasts and fires. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 36 ballistic missiles were aimed at Kyiv and the surrounding region, and 172 drones were launched at Kyiv and 12 other regions.

The attack hit the power system at a sensitive point. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a substation linking the Rivne and Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plants to Kyiv and central Ukraine was struck, and other substations were damaged in Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk. Vitali Klitschko said energy facilities in the Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions were hit, leaving the capital with severe supply problems for power, heating and water. Kyiv's Northern Bridge over the Dnipro was closed after damage. Russia's Ministry of Defence said it had struck the bridge and claimed it was used to move Ukrainian weapons and military equipment.

Ukraine's Patriot shortage is now the hard limit on its air defence. Boris Pistorius said Germany cannot send more Patriot systems for now because doing so would leave gaps in German protection, and he urged other partners to contribute more. Russia, Ukraine and the United States are due to meet in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, with Donald Trump saying talks and calls were planned for Monday and Tuesday. Pistorius said any agreement reached by Washington and Moscow at Ukraine's expense would be unacceptable.

Paraguay's prosecutors charged former president Santiago Peña after the Senate removed him over the collapse of Ueno Bank. The Senate voted 44 to 1 to remove him, even though he had already offered to resign, because opposition lawmakers wanted to strip him of immunity. Vice President Pedro Alliana was sworn in the same evening and will serve until the mandate ends in 2028. Prosecutors charged Santiago Peña with breach of trust as an instigator and mismanagement for personal benefit as the principal perpetrator.

The bank failure has turned a political scandal into a household crisis. Regulators seized Ueno Bank three days before the Senate vote, and reports say nearly 3m customers lost access to their savings. The digital bank reported about 3m clients in a country of roughly 6.5m people, along with around $850m of public funds under management. Prosecutors say public and pension entities had about 3.6trn guaranies, or almost €505m, in deposits and placements linked to Ueno in September. The Central Bank said 1.2m customers had received partial or full reimbursement of insured deposits by Saturday.

Santiago Peña was first placed under house arrest and then moved to a military base, while prosecutors sought pretrial detention and an asset freeze. Carlos Carvallo, the former Central Bank chief, surrendered to authorities and also faces charges. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Santiago Peña's home in Asunción demanding prison rather than house arrest, and police used tear gas after disorder outside the property. Opposition senator Yolanda Paredes put the demand bluntly.

European police are tracing a wave of bomb hoaxes that hit flights, airports and newsrooms over several days. Dozens of aircraft were diverted, evacuated or searched, and no explosives were found. The alerts affected flights linked to France, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Italy and Portugal, including an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome that diverted to a French military base under fighter escort. Prague airport reported four threatened flights on Thursday and nine on Friday.

Newsrooms also received false threats. Ireland's RTÉ evacuated its headquarters and suspended broadcasting after an alert, Bulgaria's Nova TV received a similar email and Sky reported a security alert. Emails in some cases used the title 'Message to the West' and a sender styling itself as Mikhail Andropov. One threat sent to Rome's Fiumicino airport was signed by Male State, a Russian extremist group, although its founder denied responsibility and said the group no longer exists.

Investigators are treating Russia as a leading hypothesis, judging by motive, methods and precedents, but they have not proved state direction. Officials are also looking at pro-Kremlin activists and hacker groups, and some emails came from anonymous accounts in several countries. Paris prosecutors opened an investigation into possible links to foreign powers, Europol called a police meeting for next week and EU transport security experts are also due to meet. Transport economist Andrea Giuricin said the immediate bill was modest, but fear could become costly.