🇮🇱🇵🇸 - 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.

🇷🇸🇽🇰 - Kosovo prosecutors charge three suspects, one allegedly linked to Serbia, for an explosion at a canal in 2024.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - US President Donald Trump says an oil tanker has been seized off the Venezuelan coast.

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - US Congress approves the repeal of the Caesar Act on Syria.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵 - US Department of State condemns China for aiming radars at Japanese military aircraft.

🇦🇲🇦🇿 - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan calls on Azerbaijan to stop using the term "Western Azerbaijan."

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - The Venezuelan government accuses the US of "blatant theft" following the seizure of the sanctioned tanker.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 - US Department of Defense says the AUKUS deal with the UK and Australia has room for improvement.

🇺🇸🇨🇮 - Ivorian officials say they want the US to deploy spy planes for cross-border missions against jihadists in the Sahel.

🇷🇺🇻🇪 - Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterates his support for the Venezuelan government.

🇷🇺 - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warns allies they are "Russia's next target."

🇺🇳🇺🇸🇻🇪 - UN Secretary General António Guterres calls for avoiding any action that could destabilize Venezuela.

🇪🇷🇸🇦 - Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - White House says the sanctioned oil tanker seized off the Venezuelan coast will be taken to a US port.

🇺🇦🇪🇺 - FT reports Ukraine could join the EU by 2027 as part of the peace proposal currently under discussion.

🇪🇹 - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vows to eliminate the enemies "one by one, like hair lice."

🇫🇷🇧🇯 - Beninese authorities claim French special forces helped them with "mopping up operations" after the coup failed.