🇮🇱🇱🇧 — A Hezbollah lawmaker says direct talks between Israel and Lebanon are a “serious mistake” (AFP)

🇵🇰🇸🇦 — Saudi Arabia pledges to make an additional $3 billion deposit to Pakistan’s central bank (SPA)

🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇸 — Trump says Lebanon’s president and Israel’s prime minister have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire (Truth)

🇧🇭 — Bahrain’s public prosecution says it has charged an officer responsible for the death of a detainee in March (X)

🇸🇾🇺🇸 — Syria’s foreign ministry confirms that the US has handed over its last military bases in the country (statement)

🇨🇳🇰🇿 — A Kazakh court sentenced 19 activists who protested China’s crackdown on ethnic minorities in Xinjiang (AP)

🇮🇷🇮🇹🇺🇸 — Trump accuses Italy of not backing war efforts in Iran and warns that the US “won’t be there for them” (Truth)

🇲🇩🇷🇺 — Moldova’s ruling party says Russian commanders in Transnistria are personae non gratae (NewsMaker)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Trump says the blockade of Iranian ports will “remain in full force” (Truth)

🇪🇺🇲🇦🇪🇭 — The EU’s foreign policy chief says the union backs Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara (statement)

🇧🇩🇮🇳 — India’s foreign ministry says Bangladesh’s extradition request for its former prime minister is under review (presser)

🇧🇾🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Ukraine’s president says he believes Russia could once again try to involve Belarus into the war (Telegram)

🇧🇾🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Ukraine’s president says roads and artillery positions are being set up in Belarus on the border (Telegram)

🇪🇺🇬🇪🇷🇺 — The Kremlin threatens to add Georgia to its list of countries with “unfriendly regimes” if it joins the EU (presser)

🇮🇷 — Iran’s navy is largely destroyed, but fast-attack boats used by the IRGC still threaten the Strait of Hormuz (WSJ)

🇮🇶🇺🇸 — Party sources say Iraq’s ruling Shiite bloc is seeking a prime minister who will not clash with the US (Alhurra)

🇳🇱🇺🇦 — Ukraine’s president says the Netherlands will deliver a minehunter to his country in June (statement)

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇺🇳 — Lebanon’s prime minister says French peacekeepers with UNIFIL were attacked (X)

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇺🇳 — France’s president says Hezbollah likely killed a French peacekeeper with UNIFIL in southern Lebanon (X)

🇱🇧🇺🇳 — UNIFIL confirms that “non-state-actors” fired small-arms and killed a peacekeeper in Lebanon (statement)