🇬🇷🇹🇷 - Turkish human traffickers open fire on a Greek Coast Guard vessel near southern Lesvos.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Talks have ended in a "positive and constructive atmosphere". Both parties agreed to meet again next week.

🇱🇧🇧🇬 - Lebanon buries a Lebanese-French national accused of detonating explosives in a 2012 attack in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists, laying him to rest in a cemetery designated for fallen Hezbollah fighters.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 - US President Donald Trump extends the sanctions package on Russia for another year.

🇷🇸 - Rally in support of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić attracts a crowd of 55,000.

🇷🇸🇪🇺 - UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy believes Serbia genuinely wants to accede to the EU.

🇸🇾 - Syrian 8th Brigade announces its dissolution and the transfer of its remaining resources to the Defence Ministry.

ܐܘܫܥܢܐ ܒܡܪ̈ܘܡܐ ܀ ܐܘܫܥܢܐ ܠܒܪܗ ܕܕܘܝܕ
أوشعنا في الأعالي مبارك

Blessed Palm Sunday! Today let us pray for all the children of our East in the diaspora unable to celebrate in their own lands. May they return triumphantly as our Lord entered Jerusalem triumphantly.

🇬🇦 - Brice Oligui Nguema, leader of the 2023 coup, secures a landslide victory with 90% of the vote.

🇩🇪🇺🇦 - Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suggests his government may consider supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

🇫🇷🇦🇲🇦🇿 - French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot:

With regard to Azerbaijan, I am very concerned by the rising tensions at the border. I hope that the European mission deployed there will be able to increase its numbers to observe and contain these tensions. The peace treaty must now be signed, and the arbitrary detainees and prisoners must be released.

🇵🇸🇪🇺 - EU to invest €1.6 billion until 2027 to help stabilize the West Bank and Gaza.

🇱🇧🇸🇾 - Lebanese President Joseph Aoun says the government is actively working to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees to their homeland.

🇮🇶 - Iraqi Parliament passes a bill recognizing Halabja as Iraq's 19th province.

🇱🇧🇸🇾 - Some 30,000 Alawite Syrians have fled to Lebanon over the past month due to targeted killings.

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - Israeli press says the US Army is set to withdraw from Syria within two months.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits northern Gaza.

🇫🇷🇩🇿 - French President Emmanuel Macron recalls French ambassador to Algiers.

🇫🇷🇩🇿 - Paris expels 12 Algerian embassy staff in a retaliatory move after Algiers ousted 12 French diplomats.

🇸🇩🇬🇧 - London conference on Sudan raises €800 million for humanitarian aid.

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - Withdrawal is underway, long military convoys seen departing from major bases across the country.