🇪🇺🇲🇦🇪🇭 — 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)

🇮🇶 — Iraq’s oil ministry says it will resume oil exports from all fields in the country within the next few days (INA)

🇮🇳🇮🇷 — An Indian government source says an Indian-flagged oil tanker was attacked by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz (Reuters)

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇺🇳 — Hezbollah denies “any connection” to the killing of a French UNIFIL peacekeeper in southern Lebanon (statement)

🇦🇲🇷🇺 — Armenia’s prime minister pledges to uphold existing military-technical deals with Russia (presser)

🇸🇾🇹🇷 — Thousands of Kurds are returning to Afrin and Ras al-Ayn in Syria as Turkish forces withdraw (Al-Monitor)

🇦🇺🇯🇵 — Australia’s defense minister says Japan will provide new frigates under a multi-billion-dollar contract (statement)

🇹🇬🇺🇳 — ECOWAS, the AES, the UN, and European officials met in Togo to define a new strategy for the crises in the Sahel (RFI)

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇺🇳 — 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)