🇫🇷 - "European defense is becoming a reality."

— Macron

🇫🇷 - "We have the best European army and we have nukes."

— Macron

🇫🇷 - "Trump's tariff decisions won't benefit anyone."

— Macron

🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦 - Trump says he will grant a one-month exemption for U.S. automakers from new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada.

— AP

🇺🇸🇵🇸 - Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms that the U.S. is negotiating directly with Hamas for the first time, aiming to secure a hostage agreement and establish a lasting ceasefire to resolve the conflict. She notes that Israel has been "consulted".

🇫🇷🇪🇺 - The European Chiefs of Defence Staff will meet next week in Paris.

🇪🇹 - Ethiopia inaugurates an ammunition manufacturing plant, with the aim of gaining independence in this field.

🇧🇦 - #BREAKING Dodik's decree barring Bosnian state institutions from acting on the territory of the Republic of Srpska has been published in the entity gazette following its adoption.

🇭🇺🇱🇧 - Hungary has pledged full support for Lebanon’s Christians at a high-level conference, with Orban's government committing to providing jobs, supporting education, and sustaining religious institutions. Budapest has already spent millions and renovated hundreds of churches in Lebanon.

🇰🇷 - #BREAKING Three South Koreans were injured when a military shell struck a house approximately 35 km from the North Korean border.

— Yonhap

🇰🇷 - The shell fell during live-fire military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea in Pocheon, South Korea. Seven injured.

— YTN

🇫🇷🇺🇦 - French MoD says it is providing intelligence to the Ukrainian army.

🇷🇺🇸🇾 - Russia plans to sign multibillion dollar contracts with Syria to maintain its bases in the country. Investments include the construction of a new port in Tartus, gas offshore concessions, phosphates mines and hydrocarbon fields in Palmyra and the construction of a fertilizer plant in Homs.

— WSJ