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

🇵🇰 — Pakistan’s government says all public transportation in Islamabad will be free of charge due to the energy crisis.

🇧🇫 — Burkina Faso’s military leader urges people to “forget about democracy.”

🇦🇫🇨🇳🇵🇰 — China’s foreign ministry says peace talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan are advancing.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — The White House says Trump has been briefed on the crash of a US F-15 fighter jet in Iran.

🇺🇸 — US officials say a second US combat plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region and the lone pilot was safely rescued (NYT)

🇨🇩🇷🇼 — Rwanda’s president says “defensive measures” will stay until security issues in the DRC are solved (Jeune Afrique)

🇸🇩 — Local residents have reported hearing explosions in Khartoum, Sudan (AFP)

🇸🇾🇦🇪 — The UAE’s foreign ministry condemns “riots, acts of vandalism and assaults” outside its mission in Damascus, Syria.

🇰🇬🇹🇯 — Kyrgyz authorities passed a bill transferring land received from Tajikistan into state ownership (TCA)

🇷🇺🇮🇷 — Russia’s Rosatom evacuated a further 198 ​of its staff from Iran’s Bushehr ‌Nuclear Power Plant (TASS)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Trump gives Iran 48 hours to make a deal before all “hell will reign down on them.”

🇪🇺🇷🇺🇸🇰 — Slovakia’s prime minister calls on the EU to lift sanctions against Russian oil to tackle the energy crisis.

🇦🇹🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Austria’s vice-chancellor says the country will not follow the “chaotic policy” of the US in Iran (X)

🇦🇲 — Armenia’s prime minister was nominated as his party’s candidate for parliamentary elections in June (Armenpress)

🇩🇿🇫🇷 — Algeria directed ~37% of its LNG exports to France in March 2026 (TSA Algérie)

🇮🇳🇷🇺 — Russia’s first deputy prime minister says the country can provide India with more fertilizers (Interfax)

🇦🇿🇪🇬 — Azerbaijan’s SOCAR signed a cooperation framework on oil production with Egypt’s EGPC (Al-Nahar Egypt)

🇳🇪 — Niger’s former president, who remains in detention, has officially reached the end of his term in office (RFI)

🇹🇼 — Taiwan’s economy minister says he has supply assurances from a “major” LNG producer (conference)

🇪🇹 — Two pro-independence parties in Ethiopia’s Tigray have signed an MoU to establish a joint political front (statement)