🇨🇳 — 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)

🇩🇰🇫🇷 — France’s Thales says it will supply Denmark with its SAMP/T NG air defense system (release)

🇲🇱🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Russia’s defense ministry says Africa Corps has freed a Ukrainian citizen held hostage in Mali (TASS)

🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Ukraine’s president says the oil pipeline pumping Russian oil to ​Europe is ready to resume operations (X)

🇲🇲 — Myanmar’s president calls for peace talks with armed opposition groups within 100 days (GNLM)

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israeli’s military says Hezbollah fired rockets in a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire in Lebanon (Telegram)

🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸 — A US official says Vance’s trip to Pakistan’s Islamabad for talks with Iran has been put on hold (NYT)

🇬🇳🇲🇱🇷🇺 — Russia is using the port of Conakry in Guinea as a transit hub for military equipment bound for Mali (The Sentry)

🇲🇱 — Mali’s foreign minister accuses neighboring countries of “harboring terrorist groups” (Reuters)

🇬🇪🇷🇺 — Georgia’s security agency says Russian occupation remains the country’s foremost national security threat (report)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Trump says he is extending the ceasefire in Iran to let its leadership deliver a “unified proposal” (Truth)