🇪🇺 - EU interior ministers officially agree to set up "return hubs" outside the Union for rejected asylum seekers.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼 - Chinese Foreign Ministry urges the US to handle the "Taiwan question" with "utmost prudence."

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says ceding territory to Russia is "morally" and "legally" impossible.

🇧🇮🇷🇼 - Burundian Foreign Ministry condemns Rwanda's "belligerent attitude" near the border.

🇺🇸 - US President Donald Trump claims Europe is "going in some bad directions."

🇪🇹🇸🇩 - Sudanese sources say the military will open a new front in the east after Ethiopia opened a training camp for the RSF.

🇫🇷🇧🇯 - French presidency confirms support was provided to Benin's loyalist forces against the perpetrators of the coup.

🇺🇸🇹🇭🇰🇭 - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls on Thailand and Cambodia to "immediately cease hostilities."

🇪🇷🇸🇦 - Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki arrives in Saudi Arabia for a four-day working visit.

🇺🇸🇸🇩 - US Department of the Treasury imposes sanctions on actors accused of recruiting mercenaries for the war in Sudan.

🇾🇪 - Yemen's STC claims control of the eastern provinces of Hadhramaut and Mahra.

🇬🇧🇷🇺🇺🇦 - UK Defense Ministry announces the death of one of its soldiers in a "tragic accident" in Ukraine.

🇸🇾 - Syrian media says shells of unknown origin fell in the vicinity of the Mezzah airport, Damascus.

🇺🇸🇹🇷 - US Special Envoy Thomas Barrack calls discussions on Turkey's reintegration into the F-35 program "fruitful."

🇻🇪 - Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado urges to "fight for freedom."

🇹🇬🇧🇯 - Benin government official says the leader of the failed coup has sought refuge in neighboring Togo.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says approval has been given for 764 new housing units in the West Bank.

🇱🇧🇮🇷 - Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji says he has declined an invitation to visit Tehran, Iran.

🇺🇳🇨🇩🇷🇼 - UN says 200,000 people have fled eastern Congo in recent days due to a new offensive by the M23 rebels.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 - The UNIFIL says one of its patrols was fired upon by the Israeli military in southern Lebanon.

🇲🇩🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Ukrainian intelligence services claim Russia is urgently stepping up its military activities in Transnistria.