🇮🇷🇷🇺 — 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.

🇭🇺🇺🇦 — Hungary’s prime minister pledges to help Ukraine when “we get our oil which is blocked by them.”

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel’s military confirms that it carried out strikes against Iranian vessels in the Caspian Sea.

🇸🇾 — Syria’s government says that the SDF will release 600 prisoners as part of integration agreements.

🇩🇪🇮🇷 — Iran’s ambassador to Berlin urges Germany to “clarify” the role of Ramstein Air Base in the war (AFP)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel’s prime minister says that Iran no longer has the capability to enrich uranium or produce missiles.

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Israel’s prime minister denies that his country dragged the US into a war with Iran.

🇦🇲🇹🇷 — Turkey’s energy minister confirms that talks are underway with Armenia to link their energy grids.

🇪🇺🇩🇪 — Germany’s foreign minister says that several countries could be ready to join the EU within two years.

🇱🇾 — Libya’s National Oil Corporation says that is has fully contained a fire ​on a crude oil pipeline in the Sahara.

🇱🇰🇺🇸 — Sri Lanka’s president says that he blocked two US warplanes from using the country’s airports in March.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — The US is considering occupying or blockading Iran’s Kharg Island (sources to Axios)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel’s military says that it is carrying out strikes along the coast of the Caspian Sea in Nur, Iran.

🇫🇷🇮🇶 — French prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a jihadist charged with the Yazidi genocide (AFP)