* Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reshuffled his cabinet on Friday, government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said. Key portfolios remain unchanged, Marinakis said in a televised statement on Greek national broadcaster ERT.
* United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday reiterated his call for the United States and Israel to stop the war against Iran, and for Iran to stop attacking its neighbors.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kiev has submitted a request for an Easter truce with Russia to the United States, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Friday.
* China on Friday unveiled a mandatory national standard for power bank safety, aiming to comprehensively improve the safety level of portable energy storage devices. Effective April 1, 2027, the new standard introduces a series of stringent requirements.
* The Senate of Cambodia on Friday gave final approval to a new law on combating online scams, which will carry up to 30 years' imprisonment or life imprisonment for scam bosses.
* Singapore will enhance household support measures and roll out targeted aid for hard-hit sectors as part of newly announced steps to cushion the impact of the Middle East conflict on its import-dependent energy system.
* The Australian federal government will not make changes to its subsidization scheme for medications amid tariff pressure from the U.S. administration, said Mark Butler, the health minister, on Friday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday imposed a 100 percent ad valorem tariff on imports of certain patented pharmaceuticals and associated pharmaceutical ingredients.
* Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Arsenio Dominguez said on Thursday that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz requires de-escalation, stressing that military approaches alone will not work and that practical maritime solutions are needed to address the crisis.
* Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said Thursday that it had hit a data center of the U.S. Oracle tech corporation based in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
* The Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure on Thursday announced the resumption of operations at Israel's largest natural gas field, Leviathan, off the country's northern coast in the Mediterranean Sea.
* The flow of natural gas from Israel's Leviathan field in the eastern Mediterranean to Jordan resumed Friday, an energy sector official said.
* Iraq extended the closure of its airspace for one week on Friday, citing security concerns amid heightened regional tensions following U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran.
* At least eight civilians were killed and 95 others wounded in U.S. and Israeli attacks on a bridge in Iran's northern Alborz province on Thursday, the official news agency IRNA reported.
* Kyrgyzstan has dispatched over 100 tons of humanitarian aid in the form of food and medicine to Iran, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Friday.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday called Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to discuss ongoing humanitarian support and regional peace, said the Azerbaijani presidential press service.
* Leaders of the Republic of Korea and France on Friday pledged to cooperate on maritime safety in the Strait of Hormuz amid the continued Middle East tensions.
* Latest U.S. intelligence assessments show that roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran's arsenal more than one month after the United States and Israel launched massive strikes on Iran, CNN reported on Thursday.
* Armenia's Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant has been taken offline for a scheduled five-month maintenance, Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Davit Khudatyan said Thursday.
* The UN on Thursday reopened its headquarters in Khartoum, alongside the resumption of operations of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), paving the way for a gradual restoration of its activities after nearly three years of suspension following the outbreak of conflict in the country.
* Cambodia exported 361,578 tons of milled rice to international markets in the first quarter of 2026, up 71.3 percent from 211,058 tons over the same period last year, said a report released by the Cambodia Rice Federation on Friday.
* Pakistan's economy expanded by 3.89 percent in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025-26, driven mainly by strong industrial performance, official data showed on Thursday.
