🇺🇸🇻🇪 - Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez calls on the opposition to "stay in Washington."

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref says the country "must be prepared for a state of war."

🇫🇷🇲🇿 - French oil major TotalEnergies says work has resumed on its gas megaproject in Mozambique after a five-year hiatus.

🇮🇷🇪🇺 - The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemns the EU's "strategic mistake" in labelling the IRGC as a terrorist group.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - US President Donald Trump says Venezuela's airspace will reopen to commercial flights.

🇻🇪 - Venezuelan lawmakers vote in favor of loosening state control over the oil industry, opening it up to privatization.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - The US Department of the Treasury says it lifted some sanctions on the Venezuelan oil industry to ease sales.

🇺🇸🇨🇺 - US President Donald Trump threatens to impose tariffs on countries selling oil to Cuba.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - US President Donald Trump says he hopes he will not have to strike Iran.

🇸🇾 - The Syrian government and the SDF announce a new "comprehensive" agreement to resolve their dispute.

🇲🇲🇺🇳 - The UN says airstrikes carried out by the junta in Myanmar during the recent elections killed 170 civilians.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - US President Donald Trump says the Iranian government "wants to make a deal."

🇺🇸🇨🇺 - The Cuban Foreign Ministry condemns plans by the US of imposing tariffs on oil sales as a "brutal act of agression."

🇳🇪 - ISIS claims responsibility for a deadly attack against the airport in Niamey, Niger.

🇺🇸🇳🇪 - The US Department of State urges its non-emergency ​government employees to leave Niger ⁠due ‌to ⁠safety risks.

🇸🇾 - The Syrian Interior Ministry says it has arrested those behind the repeated attacks on the Mezzeh airport.

🇱🇧🇸🇾 - The Lebanese government approves an agreement to transfer Syrian prisoners back to their home country.

🇪🇹 - A humanitarian worker says a drone strike killed one person in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Palestinian health authorities say 27 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes carried out overnight in Gaza.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - US President Donald Trump says he has not shared plans related to Iran with Gulf allies citing secrecy concerns.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 - Iraq's ruling Shiite bloc reiterates its support for former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as its candidate.