🇲🇱 — At least 23 civilians and soldiers were killed in Mali’s Kati on Saturday, a medical source says (AFP)

🇨🇾🇫🇷 — A Turkish Cypriot official says talks on deploying French troops to Cyprus are “extremely dangerous” (BRT)

🇧🇦🇭🇷 — Croatia’s government says it has signed a deal with Bosnia to build a gas pipeline linking the two countries (X)

🇸🇩 — A drone strike hit the outskirts of Sudan’s Khartoum for the first time in months, a security source and locals say (AFP)

🇲🇱 — Mali’s junta leader urges the public not to give in to division (speech)

🇮🇷 — The GCC calls on Iran to “make serious efforts to rebuild trust” with the Gulf states (statement)

🇮🇶🇺🇸 — The embassy of the US in Baghdad congratulates Iraq’s new prime minister-designate (statement)

🇦🇲🇦🇿 — Azerbaijan’s deputy prime minister has landed in Yerevan, Armenia (report.az)

🇲🇱 — International mining companies will likely keep investing in Mali despite safety risks, industry sources say (Reuters)

🇬🇷🇱🇾 — Greece’s foreign minister says talks with Libya on the delimitation of their EEZs are advancing (presser)

🇮🇳 — Some voters in India’s West Bengal say they have been removed from the voter rolls without any explanation (AP)

🇬🇾🇻🇪 — Guyana’s president accuses his Venezuelan counterpart of having territorial claims in Essequibo (statement)

🇹🇳 — Tunisia’s oldest rights group says authorities have ordered a one-month suspension of its activities (statement)

🇦🇫🇵🇰 — Pakistan’s military has destroyed several border posts belonging to Afghanistan’s Taliban, security officials say (AP)

🇦🇲🇦🇿 — Armenia’s foreign ministry says Azerbaijan’s deputy prime minister met with his counterpart in Yerevan (statement)

🇲🇱🇷🇺 — The Tuareg rebels of the FLA urge Russia’s forces to “withdraw permanently from Azawad” and “all of Mali” (AFP)

🇸🇾 — Syria’s interior minister says a former officer linked to the 2013 Ghouta chemical attack has been arrested (X)

🇩🇪🇺🇸 — Trump says he is considering reducing the number of US troops stationed in Germany (Truth)

🇰🇵 — North Korea’s authorities are taking steps to protect crops from an “unprecedented drought” (KCNA)

🇸🇾 — Syria’s state grain agency says the country is not expected to import wheat this year (Al-Hurriyah)