PAKISTAN: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived today for talks.
Pakistan and Iran exchanged fire in January, targeting militias based on each others’ territory they said were responsible for attacks. They are keen to repair relations, particularly given high tensions between Iran and Israel following the latter’s bombing of Iran’s Damascus consulate and the Iranian response. Pakistan does not recognise Israel.

BURUNDI: The government has called for international assistance in response to devastating floods.
Its biggest city Bujumbura has been inundated by rising waters from Lake Tanganyika, the second largest and deepest lake on Earth. Over 200,000 people have been displaced by floods and 20,000 homes destroyed.

POLAND: President Andrzej Duda said today the country is ready to host Nato nuclear missiles in response to Russia’s deployment of nuclear warheads to Belarus.
Russia said its deployment was in response to Nato’s supply of weapons to Ukraine, and because Washington refused a proposal for both countries to agree not to station nuclear weapons in third countries’ territory. The US has such weapons in Germany and Turkey, and is redeploying them to Britain.

AUSTRALIA: Social media site X has been given 24 hours to hide footage of a Sydney bishop being stabbed from all users before a court hears the case for a permanent global ban on the content.
Australia has blocked access to the film of the knife attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel (who survived), but X owner Elon Musk is fighting a bid to suppress the content worldwide, saying it is a form of censorship.