🇨🇳 — China’s president calls for accelerated development of a new energy system to ensure national energy security (CCTV)

🇱🇾🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Ukraine’s military has an active presence in western Libya to target oil tankers linked to Russia (RFI)

🇸🇾🇹🇷 — Turkey’s transport minister says the country plans to extend its existing railway line to Aleppo, Syria (AA)

🇸🇾🇺🇦 — Ukraine’s foreign ministry says recent discussions in Syria included talks on reopening both embassies (statement)

🇨🇳🇹🇼 — Taiwan’s main opposition leader has arrived in Shanghai, China (Xinhua)

🇮🇷🇮🇶 — Iraq’s Basra Oil Company says it can restore exports to pre-war levels within a week if the war in Iran ends (Reuters)

🇧🇦🇪🇺 — The EU says it has extended its regime of restrictive measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina by one year (statement)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Israel’s military says it has targeted infrastructure in Iran (Telegram)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Trump warns that a “civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not strike a deal with the US (Truth)

🇫🇷🇮🇷 — France’s president says two French nationals have been freed after spending 3.5 years in detention in Iran (X)

🇮🇷🇵🇰🇸🇦 — Pakistan’s foreign ministry condemns Iran’s attacks on Saudi energy facilities (statement)

🇮🇶🇺🇸 — Kata’ib Hezbollah says it will release an American journalist it recently kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq (statement)

🇮🇷 — Mediators say Iranian officials told them that the country’s arsenal was nowhere near depleted (WSJ)

🇮🇶🇺🇸 — An Iraqi official confirms that Kata’ib Hezbollah has released American journalist Shelly Kittleson (AP)

🇨🇳 — China’s Belt and Road Initiative increasingly uses private, commercially driven partnerships for its projects (Bloomberg)

🇫🇷🇮🇷 — The Élysée Palace says France’s president will hold a defense council regarding Iran on Wednesday (AFP)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Trump says the US will observe a two-week ceasefire with Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz (Truth)

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Two officials at the White House say Israel has agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran (Reuters)

🇮🇷 — Iran’s foreign minister says the country will stop its attacks across the region if others reciprocate (statement)

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Renewed Israeli airstrikes target southern Lebanon (NNA)

🇱🇧 — Lebanon’s military urges civilians returning to in the south of the country to exercise caution (statement)