* Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday held a series of telephone conversations with his counterparts from Iran, Egypt and Bahrain, reaffirming Pakistan's call for de-escalation and dialogue amid evolving regional tensions, the Foreign Office said.
* Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Saturday called on the European Union (EU) to resume dialogue with Russia and lift sanctions on Russian energy raw materials, after holding a phone call with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, local media STVR reported.
* The risk of a nuclear incident is on the rise following a U.S.-Israeli strike near Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom said Saturday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Iran has 48 hours to strike a deal on opening up the Strait of Hormuz or face "Hell."
* A top Iranian commander warned that any U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran's infrastructure would be met with "devastating and continuous" attacks on all U.S. military assets in West Asia and Israeli infrastructure, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
* German males aged 17 to 45 may need to seek approval before leaving the country for trips abroad surpassing three months.
* Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom has begun the main phase of evacuating staff from the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev said Saturday.
* Hezbollah said early Sunday that it targeted an Israeli warship off the Lebanese coast with a cruise missile, claiming that a direct hit was confirmed.
* Yemen's Houthi group said on Saturday that it had carried out a joint military operation targeting Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, along with other key military sites, using a ballistic missile and multiple drones.
* Egypt's Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy announced late Saturday price hikes for commercial and residential electricity consumption effective this April, citing the global energy crisis triggered by the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran.
* Kuwait reported early Sunday that several critical infrastructure sites and a government building were struck by "hostile drone attacks," causing material damage but no casualties.
* The head of Libya's Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, has instructed that no new deals be made concerning already developed oil fields in the country, reports said Saturday.
* Bahrain's Bapco Energies announced Sunday a drone attack targeting one of its storage facilities resulted in a tank fire, the Bahrain News Agency reported.
* Several "flying objects" were destroyed during the U.S. mission to rescue a pilot in Iran, the Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.
* Syrian authorities said Saturday that a key border crossing with Lebanon will be temporarily closed due to security concerns following Israeli warnings of possible strikes on the area.
* Afghanistan has recorded a strong rise in its trade with Central Asian countries, with the volume increasing by 43 percent in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to a statement from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce on Sunday.
* Fire has broken out at Russia's NORSI oil refinery, the country's fourth-largest, following a drone attack. According to governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin, Russian air defense forces repelled an overnight attack by 30 Ukrainian drones over an industrial zone in the Kstovsky district.
* Saudi Arabia on Saturday successfully launched its "Shams" satellite aboard the Space Launch System as part of the Artemis II mission, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
