🇺🇸🇨🇺 - Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says he is ready to engage in dialogue with the US, but "without pressure."

🇨🇺 - Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says the island will develop solar power to become more self-sufficient.

🇻🇪 - Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she believes elections could be held in her country this year.

🇦🇲🇦🇿 - An Azerbaijani military court sentences officials from Nagorno-Karabakh to prison terms ranging from 15 years to life.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 - US President Donald Trump says he wants a "new, improved, and modernized" nuclear treaty with Russia.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇴🇲🇺 - US President Donald Trump says he retains the right to "militarily secure" the joint air base in Diego Garcia.

🇦🇪🇸🇦🇾🇪 - Officials say the Saudi government will use financial aid to assert influence and stabilize Yemen after the UAE's exit.

🇴🇲🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iranian state television says negotiations between the US and Iran have begun in Muscat, Oman.

🇫🇷🇱🇧 - French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot calls for giving the Lebanese military the "means" to disarm Hezbollah.

🇵🇰 - Pakistani authorities say a suicide bomber killed at least 31 people at a Shiite mosque in Islamabad.

🇱🇾 - Local media say "hundreds" are attending the funeral of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in Bani Walid, a loyalist tribal stronghold.

🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The Chinese Foreign Ministry says it backs Iran's interests and opposes "unilateral pressure or interference."

🇵🇰 - Conflict monitor ACLED says the mosque bombing in Islamabad was the city's deadliest in over a decade.

🇴🇲🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the talks in Oman are off to a "good start" and set to continue.

🇱🇾 - Seif al-Islam Gaddafi's media team says LNA commander Khalifa Haftar prevented the funeral from taking place in Sirte.

🇵🇰 - ISIS claims responsibility for the deadly bombing in Islamabad, Pakistan.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the US is seeking to end the war with Russia by June.

🇮🇶🇺🇸🇸🇾 - Iraqi authorities say they have received 2,250 ISIS prisoners from Syria in coordination with the US-led coalition.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the country's ballistic missile program is not up for negotiation.

🇩🇿🇦🇪 - Algerian state media says the country has begun to terminate its air services deal signed with the UAE in 2013.

🇩🇰🇺🇸🇬🇱 - The Danish Foreign Ministry says the situation with the US over Greenland is improving, but the crisis is not over.