🇦🇺🇨🇳 - Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles says China's military build-up demands a response.

🇫🇷🇩🇿 - French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says he wants to renegotiate agreements with Algeria as soon as possible.

🇺🇸🇧🇾 - US Department of the Treasury eases some sanctions against Belarus, including those targeting the presidential plane.

🇫🇷🇮🇷 - French President Emmanuel Macron announces the release of the two French nationals detained in Iran.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli authorities confirm they have identified the three dead Israeli hostages returned by Hamas on Sunday.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - NYT reports the US Department of Justice is working on a legal justification to expand military action against Venezuela.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Hamas hands over the body of an Israeli hostage to the Red Cross in Gaza.

🇺🇸🇲🇱 - US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau says he spoke with Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop.

🇷🇺 - Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is considering resuming testing nuclear weapons.

🇦🇲🇦🇿 - Authorities confirm a train carrying wheat has arrived in Armenia after transiting through Azerbaijani territory.

🇺🇸🇸🇩 - White House says it is working with other countries to end the war in Sudan.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli authorities confirm they have identified the dead Israeli hostage returned by Hamas on Tuesday.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Hamas hands over the body of an Israeli hostage to the Red Cross in Gaza.

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - Reuters reports the US is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus, Syria.

🇮🇱🇪🇬 - Israeli military declares the border with Egypt a closed military zone to combat arms smuggling by drones.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 - Israeli military announces it will strike Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon.

🇪🇹 - Authorities in Ethiopia's Afar region say they are under attack by forces from the neighboring Tigray region.

🇸🇾 - SDF claims to be preparing for the possibility of war against Syrian government forces.

🇹🇿 - Observers from the African Union say the recent presidential election in Tanzania did not comply with democratic standards.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 - Israeli military says it struck sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

🇵🇰🇦🇫 - Pakistani military accuses Afghan forces of opening fire at the border.