🇮🇷🌐 - #Iran has now been under a national internet blackout for two full weeks.

🇮🇳✈️📉 - Air India is set to report a record $1.6 billion annual loss after last year’s deadly crash and airspace shutdowns with Pakistan.

Airspace closure by Pakistan is now forcing Indian carriers to fly longer routes at higher costs to Europe and the US.

- Bloomberg

—🤝🇧🇬/🇵🇰 NEW: Bulgaria’s national news agency BTA has signed a news exchange agreement with Pakistan’s Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), enabling the two state agencies to share news content between Sofia and Islamabad on a regular basis.

➡️ The deal aims to expand bilateral media cooperation and improve coverage of political, economic and cultural developments in both countries for their respective audiences.

✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in English

✍️🇵🇰 NEW: Pashtunwali becomes part of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s province educational curriculum.

Imran Khan’s PTI party has formally implemented ethics/character syllabus through which students will gain cultural and civic responsibilities including Islamic & Pashtun tradition.

In the modern era of the internet, protecting our values, culture, and traditions is essential; we do not want future generations to forget their values and identity. - statement said.

🇦🇪❌🇵🇰 - NEW: Pakistan has shelved a plan to outsource the management and operations of Islamabad International Airport to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after Abu Dhabi lost interest in the process.

📸🇮🇷 / Iran’s foreign minister highlighted the damage caused by recent widespread protests.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The Trump administration is expected to deport dozens of Iranians back to their home country as soon as this Sunday, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Two of the Iranians who are part of the upcoming deportation are bisexual, they face an extremely high chance of being executed if returned.

- CNN

🇪🇬🇸🇩⚡️🇱🇾 - NEW: Egypt and Saudi Arabia have warned eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar to halt his role in facilitating Emirati arms, fuel, and fighters to Sudan’s UAE-backed RSF, which has carried out mass ethnic cleansing massacres in Darfur. They said continued support could upend Cairo’s relationship with him, Middle East Eye reported.

Egyptian intelligence said UAE weapons and Libyan fuel enabled recent RSF advances, including in El-Fasher.

According to Egyptian military sources, Haftar’s son Saddam was effectively summoned to Cairo, where officials presented aerial imagery and surveillance evidence showing weapons transfers from Abu Dhabi to Libya and onward to the RSF, fuel deliveries from Libya’s Sarir refinery, and the movement of foreign mercenaries into Sudan.

🇯🇴📱🇮🇱 - Authorities in Jordan appear to be using an Israeli digital tool to extract information from the mobile phones of activists and protesters who have been critical of Israel and spoken out in support of Gaza, according to a new report by the Citizen Lab.

When Cellebrite’s tool is deployed by authorities who have physical access to a mobile phone, it can extract data including photos, videos, chats, files, saved passwords, location history, wifi history, phone usage records, web history, social media accounts and in some cases data that a user has attempted to delete.

- TheGuardian

⚠️ This is fake news, no such laws were introduced In Afghanistan by the Taliban.

The alleged document circulating on X is being spread by the National Resistance Front, an anti-Taliban movement, and its doctored.

🇺🇸🇮🇹/ 🇵🇸 - NEW: The US has asked Italy to join the International Stabilization Force for Gaza as a founding member

— Bloomberg