🇨🇳🇰🇬🇺🇿 — Construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway line has entered an active phase (TCA)

🇹🇩🇭🇹 — A new force tasked with fighting Haiti’s gangs says Chadian officers have begun arriving in the country.

🇨🇺🇺🇸 — The US embassy in Havana says a team from the FBI arrived in Cuba to investigate February’s deadly boat shootout.

🇫🇷🇰🇷 — South Korea’s president pledges to boost cooperation with France in AI, nuclear energy, and hydrogen.

🇫🇷 — France’s president says reopening the Strait of Hormuz by force is “unrealistic.”

🇮🇷🇵🇭 — The Philippines’s foreign ministry says Iran will allow Filipino vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

🇲🇩 — Moldovan lawmakers approve the country’s withdrawal from the CIS (Moldpres)

🇫🇷🇳🇨 — French lawmakers have rejected a proposed constitutional reform to change New Caledonia’s status (Le Monde)

🇮🇶 — Iraq’s State Organization for Marketing of Oil says oil revenues fell by 70% in March.

🇮🇹 — Italy’s foreign minister calls for the creation of a “humanitarian corridor” to move fertilizers through the Strait of Hormuz.

🇱🇧🇸🇾🇺🇳 — The UN says more than 200,000 people have crossed from Lebanon to Syria in past month.

🇮🇱 — Israel’s energy ministry says the strategic Leviathan gas field in the Mediterranean Sea will resume operations.

🇺🇦 — Ukraine’s foreign minister says the country’s experience in countering naval blockades is “valuable for the Middle East.”

🇦🇲🇪🇺🇷🇺 — Russia’s president says he is “calm” about Armenia’s dialogue with the EU.

🇮🇷🇯🇴 — Jordan’s senate speaker accuses Iran of “inciting Shiite minorities” in the Gulf states.

🇱🇾 — Eastern Libya’s forces have acquired combat drones despite a long-standing embargo on arms supplies (Reuters)

🇮🇶🇸🇾 — The first convoy of Iraqi fuel tankers entered Syria via the Al-Tanf–Al-Walid border crossing (AA)

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇯🇵 — The war in Iran is delaying Japan’s order for Tomahawk missiles from the US (Bloomberg)

🇰🇷 — South Korea will advance the deployment of its Iron Dome-like interceptor system from 2031 to 2029 (Yonhap)

🇫🇷 — A French-owned container ship exited the Strait of Hormuz (AFP)

🇦🇪 — Authorities in the UAE’s Abu Dhabi say operations at the Habshan gas facility are paused after a fire broke out.