🇫🇷🇱🇧🇺🇳 — Lebanon’s presidency condemns the attack that killed a French UNIFIL peacekeeper (statement)

🇪🇸🇻🇪 — Venezuela’s main opposition leader drew thousands at a rally in Spain’s Madrid where many exiles live (AP)

🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸 — Trump says his representatives will travel to Pakistan’s Islamabad tomorrow for talks with Iran (Truth)

🇱🇧🇸🇾 — Syria’s interior ministry says it has foiled a cross-border attack by a Hezbollah-linked cell (Telegram)

🇨🇳🇳🇿 — New Zealand’s military denies that a recent mission by a P-8A patrol aircraft was directed at China (statement)

🇨🇳 — Europe’s Airbus denies providing China’s MizarVision with satellite images of the Middle East (Newsweek)

🇧🇬 — Bulgaria’s electoral authorities say voter turnout in the parliamentary elections stood at 34.63% as of 4 p.m. (data)

🇫🇷🇮🇷 — France’s CMA CGM says one of its ships came under warning fire in the Strait of Hormuz (AFP)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Trump says the US has seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that “tried to get past our naval blockade” (Truth)

🇮🇶🇸🇾 — Iraq’s customs officials say another border crossing with Syria will reopen after a decade-long closure (INA)

🇨🇳 — China’s president says the Strait of Hormuz must remain open (Xinhua)

🇨🇩🇺🇬 — Uganda’s military says it rescued 200 civilians from an Islamist camp in the DRC with support from Congo (statement)

🇻🇪 — Venezuela’s opposition leader says she expects to be back in her country by the end of the year (Reuters)

🇰🇿 — Kazakhstan’s atomic energy agency says it plans to operate three nuclear power plants by 2050 (statement)

🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸 — Iran has told regional mediators that it will send a delegation to Pakistan’s Islamabad for talks with the US (WSJ)

🇮🇶 — Iraq’s ruling Shiite coalition has nominated Bassem al-Badry ​as ​its candidate for prime ​minister (Reuters)

🇪🇹 — Tigray’s TPLF accuses Ethiopia’s government of violating the Pretoria Agreement, which ended the war (statement)

🇪🇹 — Tigray’s TPLF says it is taking over the region’s government by restoring its pre-war rule (statement)

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Lebanon’s health ministry says Israeli airstrikes have killed over 2,387 people in the country (NNA)

🇪🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇺🇦 — Germany and France seek to offer Ukraine the “symbolic” benefits of EU minus key membership rights (FT)