🇬🇼 - Guinea-Bissau's electoral commission says the presidential election process cannot be completed.

🇦🇲🇪🇺 - EU unveils a $12 million initiative to counter "hybrid threats" in Armenia ahead of the parliamentary elections.

🇦🇺🇨🇳 - Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the Chinese military is frequently reaching further into the Pacific.

🇦🇲🇹🇷 - Bloomberg says Turkish authorities plan to open the border with Armenia within the next six months.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli authorities say the body returned by Hamas on Tuesday is not that of a hostage.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 - Israeli government confirms the existence of direct talks with Lebanese representatives.

🇵🇰🇦🇫 - Pakistani and Afghan officials say a new round of peace talks between the two countries has failed to produce a breakthrough.

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

🇮🇱🇱🇧 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says the talks with Lebanon were held in a "positive atmosphere."

🇮🇱🇱🇧 - Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam says the discussions with Israel are not peace talks.

🇮🇶 - Iraqi military blames "outlawed elements" for the attack on the Khor Mor gas field, Kurdistan Region.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 - Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te calls on China to "focus" on its "struggling" economy.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli media report the death of the head of an armed Palestinian faction opposed to Hamas in Gaza.

🇺🇸 - US military announces the launch of its first one-way-attack drone squadron based in the Middle East.

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

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli military says 40 Hamas militants trapped in tunnels were killed below Rafah, Gaza.

🇰🇷🇰🇵 - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung says he is considering apologizing to North Korea for past tensions.

🇷🇺🇮🇳 - Russian President Vladimir Putin expresses his support for India in its fight against terrorism as a "full ally."

🇸🇾 - Syrian central bank Governor Abdulkader Husrieh says the economy is growing faster than expected.

🇺🇸🇨🇩🇷🇼 - Rwandan President Paul Kagame and DRC President Felix Tshisekedi sign a peace deal in Washington DC, US.

🇸🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The Swedish government announces plans to cut aid to countries to boost its support for Ukraine.