🇨🇳🇵🇰 — Pakistan’s navy says it has commissioned its first Chinese-built Hangor-class attack submarine (X)

🇦🇪 — Authorities in the UAE’s Dubai says passenger traffic at the city’s airport fell 65.7% in March year-on-year (statement)

🇮🇩🇯🇵 — Indonesia’s defense ministry says it has signed a cooperation agreement with Japan (statement)

🇦🇲🇹🇷 — Turkey’s vice president says Armenia and Turkey have agreed to jointly restore a historic bridge on their border (AA)

🇲🇱 — Mali’s junta leader assumes the position of defense minister, a decree says (ORTM)

🇦🇲🇦🇿🇪🇺 — Azerbaijan’s president accuses the EU of “sabotaging” his country’s peace process with Armenia (address)

🇮🇷🇦🇪 — Authorities in the UAE’s Fujairah say a drone launched from Iran struck an oil facility (statement)

🇴🇲 — Two people were injured after a residential building was “targeted” in Oman’s Bukha, a security source says (ONA)

🇸🇩 — Drones attacked Sudan’s Khartoum International Airport, witnesses and residents say (Reuters)

🇸🇾 — Syria’s central bank says it now allows local banks and payment firms to access global payment networks (statement)

🇮🇳 — India’s prime minister declares victory in the opposition stronghold of West Bengal after a key state election (X)

🇧🇭🇺🇦 — Ukraine’s president has arrived in Bahrain for talks on security cooperation, a source within the delegation says (AFP)

🇧🇷🇦🇪 — Brazil’s Embraer says the UAE has ordered 10 C-390 transport aircraft for its air force (release)

🇦🇲🇹🇷 — Turkey’s envoy for normalization says no date has been set for the reopening of the border with Armenia (presser)

🇹🇩 — At least 24 people were killed in an attack carried out by Boko Haram on a military base in Chad, sources say (AFP)

🇪🇷🇺🇸 — The US is set to remove its sanctions against Eritrea, internal documents show (Reuters)

🇦🇿🇪🇺 — The EU’s foreign policy chief says the union is willing to discuss a “more structured partnership” with Azerbaijan (X)

🇰🇿🇷🇺 — Kazakhstan’s deputy energy minister says the country may stop importing electricity from Russia as of 2027 (TASS)

🇱🇧🇸🇾 — Syria’s interior ministry says it has dismantled a cell linked to Hezbollah plotting to assassinate senior officials (X)

🇪🇹 — Tigray’s TPLF says it has officially reinstated its pre-war legislative council and governing structures (statement)