🇺🇸🇻🇪 - US President Donald Trump says "it would be smart" for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to leave power.

🇹🇷🇱🇾 - The Turkish Interior Ministry says contact was lost with a Falcon 50 jet carrying the chief of staff of Libya's GNU.

🇺🇸🇨🇩🇷🇼 - A US official says Washington is "not satisfied" with the M23's withdrawal from a key town in the DRC.

🇹🇷🇱🇾 - Libya's GNU confirms the death of its chief of staff in the plane crash in Ankara, Turkey.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The Ukrainian military confirms its withdrawal from the embattled eastern town of Siversk.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz denies any intention to resettle the Gaza Strip after hinting at this possibility.

🇹🇭🇰🇭 - The Thai Defense Ministry says talks are underway with the Cambodian military to halt hostilities.

🇷🇸🇽🇰 - Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti says normalizing relations with Serbia is necessary but difficult.

🇫🇷🇩🇿 - Algerian lawmakers pass a law declaring France's colonization a "state crime" requiring an "apology."

🇯🇴🇸🇾 - The Jordanian military says its fighter jets "neutralized a number of arms and drug traffickers" in Suwayda, Syria.

🇫🇷🇩🇿 - The French Foreign Ministry calls the criminalization of the colonization of Algeria a "clearly hostile initiative."

🇮🇱🇮🇶 - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani rules out any normalization with Israel.

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🇹🇳 - The head of Tunisia's main labor union resigns one month before the planned nationwide strike.

🇦🇲🇷🇺 - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan threatens to reclaim control of the railways run by Russian concessionaires.

🇸🇦🇾🇪 - The Saudi Foreign Ministry calls on Yemen's STC to withdraw from the areas it has recently conquered.

🇹🇷🇸🇾 - Turkish Deputy Trade Minister Özgür Volkan Ağar says exports to Syria have increased by 54% to $3 billion this year.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 - The US Department of State imposes a visa ban on a former EU commissioner allegedly involved in censorship.

🇸🇾 - The Syrian Information Ministry says communications with the SDF are currently "suspended."

🇸🇦🇾🇪 - The Saudi Foreign Ministry calls the STC's offensive in Yemen an "unjustified escalation."

🇺🇸🇮🇳🇨🇳 - The Chinese Foreign Ministry accuses the US of trying to hinder the improvement of Beijing's ties with India.