🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 | The Kremlin says Russia's president has ordered a three-day halt to strikes on Kyiv as part of preparations for a visit by Witkoff and Kushner — TASS

🇪🇷🇸🇩 | Sudan's military leader is making his second visit to Asmara in less than two months for bilateral talks with Eritrea's president — Addis Standard

🇧🇫🇨🇳 | Burkina Faso has publicly demonstrated a previously unseen Chinese-made air defense missile system identified by analysts as the Sky Dragon 30 — SCMP

🇯🇵🇷🇺 | Japan has urged Russia to remove a newly erected war memorial in Khabarovsk depicting a Soviet soldier destroying the chrysanthemum crest — Kyodo

🇮🇷🇺🇸 | CENTCOM says it "disabled" two Iranian crude carriers and "destroyed" another after the IRGC fired ballistic missiles at two Navy warships — statement

🇲🇲🇻🇳 | Myanmar and Vietnam have agreed to deepen defense and security cooperation, including in military training and coordination against crimes — Reuters

🇱🇾 | The rebuilt Tripoli International Airport in western Libya is scheduled to reopen in Q4 2026, more than 12 years after it was destroyed in militia fighting — Libya Herald

🇷🇺🇺🇸 | The motorcade carrying Witkoff, Kushner, and Russia's special presidential envoy for foreign economic cooperation has arrived at the Kremlin — TASS

🇮🇶 | Iraqi motorists are forced into long queues after a severe gasoline shortage spread across Kirkuk, Baghdad, and several other provinces — Kurdistan24

🇨🇾🇪🇬🇬🇷 | Egypt's president, his Cypriot counterpart, and Greece's prime minister will hold an informal trilateral meeting in El Alamein next week — Ta Nea

🇺🇳🇾🇪 | The OCHA says clashes between Yemen's government and the Houthis in Taiz Governorate have displaced 1,790 households in two days — statement

🇰🇵🇰🇷 | South Korea has confirmed that references to "peaceful reunification" have been officially stripped from the charter of North Korea's ruling party — Yonhap

🇷🇺🇺🇸 | Trump's special envoys, Witkoff and Kushner, have left the Kremlin after meeting with Russia's president for negotiations — TASS

🇮🇳🇯🇵 | India's air force says two Japanese C-2 cargo aircraft have arrived at Jodhpur Air Force Station in Rajasthan ahead of a joint air exercise — Facebook

🇮🇷🇺🇸 | The IRGC Navy says it targeted three oil tankers sailing on an "unauthorized route" in the Strait of Hormuz and three vessels affiliated with the US — IRNA

🇷🇺 | A fire broke out aboard the Russian polar icebreaker Admiral Makarov while it was undergoing repairs in Kronstadt near St. Petersburg — Kommersant

🇱🇾 | Libya has arrested a cell responsible for launching attacks on oil tanks in Tripoli and Zawiya as well as on a power station, a government source says — Al Arabiya

🇮🇷🇺🇸 | CENTCOM says the Iranian crude carrier M/T Kylo sank in the Gulf of Oman after being struck by the US — X

🇺🇦🇺🇸 | Trump's special envoys, Witkoff and Kushner, have arrived in Kyiv for talks with Ukraine's president — Ukrinform

🇮🇶🇺🇸 | Iraq ranked as the ninth-largest supplier of crude oil to the US last week at 38,000 barrels per day up from zero the previous week — Shafaq

🇦🇫🇶🇦 | Qatar has expressed interest in investing in Afghanistan's oil and gas sector, with both sides discussing the establishment of an oil refinery — BNA