🇦🇫🇵🇰 — Afghanistan confirms that it has paused its “defensive operations” against Pakistan (Taliban-led government)

🇨🇴🇪🇨 — Ecuador denies accusations that it bombed targets in neighboring Colombia (Ecuadorian President)

🇮🇸🇪🇺 — Iceland expressed hope that it will join the EU as early as 2028 (Icelandic Foreign Minister via Reuters)

🇮🇷🇶🇦 — Qatar reports that an Iranian attack caused a fire at Ras Laffan Industrial City (Qatari Interior Ministry)

🇮🇷🇶🇦 — Damages caused by an Iranian attack on Ras Laffan Industrial City are “extensive” (Qatar Energy)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel struck multiple Iranian vessels in the Caspian Sea (IBA)

🇨🇷🇨🇺 — Costa Rica will close its embassy in Cuba to “​cleanse the hemisphere of Communists” (Costa Rican President)

🇻🇪 — Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez dismissed her defense minister (statement on X)

🇮🇶🇺🇸 — Kata'ib Hezbollah is pausing its attacks against the US Embassy in Iraq for five days (statement)

🇵🇸 — Falling missile debris killed four Palestinian women in Beit Awwa, West Bank (Palestine Red Crescent Society)

🇫🇷🇱🇧 — French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot will visit Lebanon on Thursday (French Foreign Ministry via AFP)

🇪🇬🇮🇷 — Egypt’s energy bill has more than doubled since the start of the war in Iran (Egyptian Prime Minister)

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇸 — The US assesses that China seeks to control Taiwan without the use of force (US Intelligence Community)

🇹🇩🇸🇩 — Chad reports that a cross-border drone ​attack from Sudan killed 17 people (Chadian government)

🇨🇳 — China has arrested seven people accused of trafficking fentanyl precursor ‌chemicals (Xinhua News Agency)

🇮🇶🇪🇸 — Spain plans to evacuate and relocate its troops deployed in Iraq (Spanish Defense Minister)

🇬🇷🇮🇷🇸🇦 — Greek air defense systems in Saudi Arabia shot down two missiles launched by Iran (Greek Defense Minister)

🇮🇷🇷🇺 — Russia’s Rosatom calls for establishing a safety zone around Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.

🇲🇰 — North Macedonia’s governing ethnic Albanian coalition moves to merge into a single political party (MIA)

🇳🇬🇬🇧 — Nigeria’s president urges the UK increase its support in combating terrorism in West Africa.

🇲🇩🇷🇺 — Moldova’s president accuses Russia of polluting shared rivers after strikes in Ukraine caused oil spills.