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Israel says Hezbollah trying to rebuild, smuggle in arms from Syria JPost’s Amine Ayoub: The Sudan-Libya-Egypt triangle: An immediate Israeli security crisis Foreign Policy’s Nik Kowsar and Alireza Nader: Tehran’s residents are panicking as taps run dry What the looming fall of a Ukrainian city says about Putin’s war WSJ Editorial: Syria comes to Washington—at long last Turkey seeks 2,000-year jail sentence for Erdogan’s top political rival South Korea court issues arrest warrant for former spy chief in martial law declaration probe, Yonhap reports 12 killed in deadliest attack on Pakistan’s heartland in almost a decade Australian spy chief says Chinese hackers probing telecoms, key facilities Russia is winning the battle for influence in Georgia against the E.U. Women in Darfur report rape, lost children amid Sudan violence, UN says Arrival of U.S.’s largest warship ratchets up pressure on VenezuelaIn The News
Israel
Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, a key confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a central figure in shaping Israel’s policies during the Gaza war, submitted his resignation letter on Wednesday. – New York Times
A de facto partition of Gaza between an area controlled by Israel and another ruled by Hamas is increasingly likely, multiple sources said, with efforts to advance U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war beyond a ceasefire faltering. – Reuters
France will help the Palestinian Authority draft a constitution for a future state, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday after talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris. – Reuters
Bezeq Israeli Telecom reported a 56% rise in quarterly net profit, boosted by sharp growth in subscribers to its fibre optics network and in 5G customers at its mobile business. – Reuters
El Al Israel Airlines on Tuesday reported an 8% rise in quarterly profit as it continued to benefit from foreign airlines holding off on flying to Israel due to the Gaza war, but said it expected more to return to the market next year. – Reuters
The Israeli military accused Lebanese armed group Hezbollah on Tuesday of seeking to rebuild its combat abilities in south Lebanon to the point of threatening Israel’s security and undoing last year’s ceasefire deal. – Reuters
Israel reopened the Zikim Crossing in northern Gaza to allow humanitarian aid trucks into the enclave on Wednesday, COGAT, the Israeli military’s arm that oversees aid flows, said. – Reuters
The Israeli parliament has advanced a bill that would mandate the death penalty for Palestinian militants convicted of killing Israeli citizens, with some lawmakers believing it would prevent future prisoner-release deals. – Reuters
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Tuesday that it had thwarted “another ceasefire violation” in the Gaza Strip after a “terrorist” crossed the “yellow line” that separates control of the territory. – Fox News
The US military is exploring whether to build a temporary base capable of housing 10,000 people near the Gaza Strip as part of its push for a stabilization force of troops from other countries to monitor a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. – Bloomberg
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem warned Tuesday that the ongoing trend of near-daily Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon “cannot continue.” – Agence-France Presse
Following Hebrew media reports that the French government intended to prevent eight Israeli companies from taking part in a defense exhibition in Paris next week, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot informed Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Tuesday that all Israeli companies will be allowed to participate. – Times of Israel
US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been striving to find a solution to the standoff over the 100-200 Hamas terrorists holed up in Rafah tunnels on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line, but remain at an impasse. – Times of Israel
With the war seemingly at an end, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday went into high gear in a new “war” with the IDF and the Defense Ministry over the future of the country’s security budget. – Jerusalem Post
The Military Advocate General’s Office will hold a hearing for an officer suspected of involvement in a soldier’s death in Lebanon last year, in the coming weeks, the soldier’s family was told on Tuesday. – Haaretz
Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Tuesday that he has accepted recommendations to shut down the military radio station Galei Tzahal (Army Radio), ending decades of public broadcasting by the IDF. – Ynet
Amine Ayoub writes: The strategic triangle of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt is not an abstract academic construct. It is live, lethal geography that now shapes Israel’s security horizon. If left unattended, the logistical networks that have emerged will entrench a new era of proliferation and make crises in Gaza and Sinai more frequent and deadlier. Israel’s response must be rapid, multidimensional, and unapologetically pragmatic: intelligence first, diplomacy second, and strategic integration third. – Jerusalem Post
Iran
When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ride her yellow scooter through the gridlocked streets of Iran ‘s capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn’t her main worry. – Associated Press
Yonah Jeremy Bob writes: On the other hand, when he fell in 2024, his regime had received “Death by a Thousand Cuts” and barely put up a defense. So Israel can keep its eye on both the short-term dangers of preventing nuclear and ballistic missile weapons threats, and also on the much longer-term goal of returning its relationship with Iran to the strong pre-1979 cooperation era, or at least to an era where the constant threat is removed. – Jerusalem Post
Nik Kowsar and Alireza Nader write: Of course, some figures are talking about transferring desalinated water to Tehran from the Sea of Oman—without grasping the environmental and financial burden of the technology or its true cost. Hot, salty brine degrades coastal ecosystems, while the high, largely fossil-fueled power demand gives each cubic meter a heavy carbon footprint. But the harder truth sits upstream of the pipes. Real solutions will not come from a water governance system dominated by the Revolutionary Guards and the water mafia. Iran needs a new system for water governance now. Otherwise, Tehran will turn into ruin, and millions of Iranians will head to more secure and sustainable lands. – Foreign Policy
Russia and Ukraine
When Russians finally began to outnumber Ukrainians in Pokrovsk in recent weeks, the city lay in ruins and bodies lined the streets. The brutal fight for the Ukrainian city points to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ultimate aims in the war—and explains why President Trump’s peace efforts have, so far, failed. – Wall Street Journal
Investigators from Ukraine’s two independent anti-graft bodies have searched the home of the country’s justice minister as part of a sprawling corruption investigation into an alleged scheme involving millions of dollars in the country’s energy sector. – Washington Post
Ukrainian authorities have dismissed the supervisory board of the nuclear energy agency Energoatom after a corruption investigation was launched into alleged corrupt activity, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on Tuesday. – Reuters
Russia said its forces had pushed deeper into the eastern Ukrainian cities of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Tuesday, with one video showing Russian soldiers rolling into Pokrovsk on motorbikes and even on the roofs of battered cars and vans. – Reuters
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the frontline city of Kherson on Tuesday, which is only a few kilometres from Russian positions across the Dnipro river, and faces constant bombardment and attacks by drones. – Reuters
Ukrainian authorities charged seven individuals on Tuesday in relation to an alleged $100 million kickback scheme involving senior energy officials that has caused public anger and focused attention on Kyiv’s battle against corruption. – Reuters
A teenage Russian street musician who has spent nearly a month in jail after singing anti-Kremlin songs was handed more jail time on Tuesday in a case rights activists say shows how stifling wartime censorship has become. – Reuters
Ukraine’s top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Tuesday that the army’s situation has “significantly worsened” in parts of southeastern Zaporizhzhia region amid fierce fighting with Russian forces. – Reuters
Ukraine’s government has suspended Justice Minister German Galushchenko, the prime minister said on Wednesday, amid an investigation into corruption in the energy sector. – Reuters
Ukraine claimed new strikes on two Russian refineries as military authorities in Kyiv press ahead with attacks on Moscow’s oil-processing industry to curtail its energy revenues. – Bloomberg
Keith Johnson writes: However, emboldened by some modest battlefield successes, Russia seems grimly determined. Despite having sustained heavy casualties in its effort to take a city in eastern Ukraine that once held 60,000 people, it appears close to finally achieving that goal. The Kremlin insists that it will only come to the peace table when its initial goals of the invasion of Ukraine are met: namely, “denazification” and “demilitarization” of a sovereign, independent, neighboring country. Bankrupting Moscow is necessary, but is it sufficient? – Foreign Policy
Syria
After a historic first trip to the White House, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa sat down Monday for an interview with The Washington Post. In an hour-long conversation, the onetime militant, who spoke through an interpreter, discussed the importance of rebuilding Syria’s relationship with the United States. – Washington Post
Thieves have stolen several Roman-era statues from Syria’s National Museum in Damascus, officials said Tuesday, the latest blow to the country’s cultural heritage after years of looting and destruction during its civil war. – New York Times
He waited for his brother-in-law to cross the front line smuggling documents stolen from the Syrian dictatorship’s archives. Detection could mean dismemberment or death, but they were committed to exposing the industrial-scale violence used to keep President Bashar Assad in power. – Associated Press
Editorial: Mr. Trump didn’t quiet the controversy over Mr. Sharaa, who entered the White House through a side door, with his remarks Monday. “People say he’s had a rough past? We’ve all had rough pasts,” the U.S. President said. That’s no answer to present concerns about, say, the foreign jihadist commanders in Syria’s army. Mr. Sharaa’s past warrants skepticism, which makes concrete signs of pragmatism all the more important today. A few more of those is the way to persuade Congressional Republicans to ease U.S. sanctions on Syria. – Wall Street Journal
Turkey
A Turkish prosecutor accused the jailed mayor of Istanbul of running a criminal organization and called for him to be sentenced to more than 2,000 years in prison, according to an indictment presented in court on Tuesday. – New York Times
Turkey’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that 20 soldiers were killed in the crash of its military aircraft in Georgia a day earlier, as inspectors continued to seek clues what caused the NATO member’s cargo plane to go down. – Reuters
The foreign ministers of Turkey and Egypt will discuss the Gaza ceasefire and international efforts to rebuild the enclave once the war is over during talks in Ankara on Wednesday, a Turkish foreign ministry source said on Tuesday. – Reuters
Turkish telecoms operator Turkcell signed an agreement with Google on Wednesday for strategic cooperation on cloud technologies, the company said in a notice. – Reuters
Middle East & North Africa
Libya was urged at a U.N. meeting on Tuesday to close detention centres where rights groups say migrants and refugees have been tortured, abused and sometimes killed. – Reuters
Saudi Arabia is expected to host a U.S.-Saudi investment summit in Washington on November 19 during a visit by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to a source familiar with the planning. – Reuters
Iraqis voted in parliamentary elections on Tuesday in which Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani was seeking a second term but many disillusioned young voters saw it as a vehicle for established parties to divide up Iraq’s oil wealth. – Reuters
Michael Rubin writes: For all those who condemn Iraqi democracy, such discussions and assessments would lead to a hefty prison term in any other Arab country; in Iraq they occur openly every day and in every tea house, burger joint, or Kurdish social club. At the same time, they open the door for a dark horse, a provincial governor from outside Baghdad, for example. Such uncertainty can be healthy. When Arabs talk about representation and legitimacy and outside diplomats talk about inclusive government, they are speaking about Iraq. Perhaps it is time Americans stop self-flagellating over a war that occurred more than two decades ago and recognize that the new Iraq, for better or worse, has become a model for democracy in the region. – American Enterprise Institute
Korean Peninsula
South Korea will co-sponsor an annual U.N. resolution that raises concerns over North Korea’s human rights situation, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, defying some expectations that Seoul might withhold support to avoid irking Pyongyang. – Reuters
A South Korea court issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for former spy agency chief Cho Tae-yong who is under a probe into ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law in 2024, Yonhap News Agency reported on Wednesday. – Reuters
A South Korean team demolished two towering structures with explosives on Tuesday in a bid to clear the way to recover two workers who are presumed dead and two others missing in the rubble of a collapsed industrial facility. – Reuters
China
Beijing is taking an aggressive approach to help its technology giants squeezed by America’s chip restrictions. – Wall Street Journal
China’s nuclear forces are expanding quickly. Yet behind that rise, the top leader Xi Jinping’s sweeping purge of generals and military leaders has exposed deep-seated corruption and raised questions about the country’s ability to manage its growing arsenal. – New York Times
A newly built bridge in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan partly collapsed, causing slabs of concrete to plunge onto a rocky mountainside and sending up plumes of dust. No casualties were reported. – New York Times
China’s President Xi Jinping told Spain’s King Felipe on Wednesday that the world’s second-largest economy seeks to work with Madrid to boost the global influence of both nations, as the heads of state met in Beijing ahead of a signing ceremony. – Reuters
Chinese authorities have announced measures to improve the mental health of primary and secondary school students by reducing academic pressure, cutting screen time and mandating two hours of physical exercise daily. – Reuters
The mastermind of a vast Ponzi scheme in China, which conned nearly 130,000 investors, was jailed in Britain on Tuesday for over 11 years for laundering the proceeds of the fraud into cryptocurrency now worth billions of dollars. – Reuters
The stranded crew of a Chinese space mission is “in good condition, working and living normally,” China’s Manned Space Engineering office said on Tuesday. – Associated Press
South Asia
At least 12 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Tuesday, the country’s interior minister said, marking the deadliest attack in the country’s heartland in almost a decade and raising the specter of a military response. – Washington Post
Afghanistan’s economic recovery is buckling as nine in 10 households are forced to skip meals, sell belongings or take on debt to survive, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning that mass returns are exacerbating the country’s worst crisis since the Taliban returned to power. – Reuters
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance is leading in exit polls from elections in one of India’s poorest yet politically-pivotal states, suggesting a possible boost for the Indian leader after a year marked by economic headwinds and foreign policy challenges. – Bloomberg
The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear a burka – a full Islamic veil – to enter public health facilities in the western city of Herat, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says. – BBC
Asia
Thailand has demanded an apology from Cambodia after accusing it of laying fresh landmines that have injured Thai soldiers, a foreign ministry official said on Wednesday, a day after Bangkok suspended a ceasefire pact. – Reuters
A spat between China and Japan over Japanese Premier Sanae Takaichi’s Taiwan comments showed no signs of abating on Wednesday after a series of vitriolic articles in Chinese state media and calls in Tokyo to expel a Chinese diplomat. – Reuters
Japan decried as “absolutely unacceptable” on Wednesday Russia’s extension of an entry ban to 30 more citizens, among them a foreign ministry spokesperson, after Tokyo’s sanctions over Moscow’s nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine. – Reuters
Australia’s spy chief said hackers working for the Chinese government and military had probed Australia’s telecommunications network and critical infrastructure, warning on Wednesday of the potential for disruption to the economy if a sabotage attack were carried out. – Reuters
Vietnam is working to sign a trade agreement with the United States soon, Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son said on Wednesday, as a new round of negotiations gets underway in Washington. – Reuters
Australia and Indonesia have agreed on a new security treaty that commits them to consult each other if either country is threatened, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in Sydney on Wednesday with Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto. – Reuters
Tajikistan’s communications service said on Tuesday that it had launched a national messenger app, mimicking similar projects in Russia and Kazakhstan, which critics have warned could compromise user data. – Reuters
The lower house of Kazakhstan’s parliament passed a law on Wednesday banning “LGBT propaganda” online or in the media, mandating fines for violators and up to 10 days in jail for repeat offenders. – Reuters
Wanted gambling kingpin She Zhijiang is being extradited to China from Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police said, after a Thai court earlier this week upheld an order that followed a legal battle lasting more than three years. – Reuters
When King Maha Vajiralongkorn arrives in Beijing on Thursday, he will become the first reigning Thai monarch to make a state visit to China, in what analysts say is a sign of the Asian giant’s increasing influence on his kingdom. – Reuters
Australia’s highest court on Wednesday blocked Russia from building a new embassy in the nation’s capital, unanimously upholding a law that cancelled its lease on national security grounds. – Reuters
The death toll from the sinking of a boat carrying members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority climbed to 27 on Tuesday, as a survivor recalled a harrowing journey that left him floating for days in the Andaman Sea. – Reuters
The student suspected of detonating blasts that injured dozens of people at a mosque in Indonesia’s capital last week was motivated by vengeance and inspired by attacks carried out by white supremacists and neo-Nazis, police said on Tuesday. – Reuters
Taiwan evacuated more than 8,300 people from coastal and mountainous areas and closed schools before a tropical storm brushes the southern part of the island later Wednesday. – Associated Press
The governor of Japan’s Niigata Prefecture will make a rare visit to one of the country’s most-troubled nuclear power plants this week, an event that will be watched closely by gas traders for any hint that the facility might be restarted. – Bloomberg
Europe
Just over a year after the ruling party in Georgia, a small former Soviet republic nestled in the Caucasus, won parliamentary elections, the country finds itself further than ever from its long-sought goal of E.U. membership — and much closer to Russia. – Washington Post
A European Union naval mission has taken control of an Iranian-flagged dhow used by pirates last week to attack an oil products tanker off the coast of Somalia and later abandoned. – Reuters
France is worried about U.S. military operations in the Caribbean because they violate international law, the country’s foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday. – Reuters
Germany plans to allocate nearly 19 billion euros ($22.16 billion) to kit out soldiers with new clothes and personal equipment in the coming years, in addition to 7.5 billion for new wheeled armoured vehicles, said a finance ministry document. – Reuters
Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Italy will be eligible for help dealing with migratory pressures under a new EU mechanism when the bloc’s pact on migration and asylum enters into force in mid-2026, the European Commission said on Tuesday. – Reuters
Alphabet’s Google will invest 5.5 billion euros ($6.41 billion) in Germany in the coming years in a push to expand its infrastructure and data centre capacity in Europe’s largest economy, company and government officials said on Tuesday. – Reuters
Thousands of protesters circled a former army headquarters in Serbia on Tuesday over a new law to speed its conversion into a luxury compound leased to an investment company founded by U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. – Reuters
Britain plans to ban companies from providing services such as shipping and insurance for Russian liquefied natural gas exports, in its latest attempt to help Ukraine in its war against Russia by trying to choke off Kremlin revenue. – Reuters
A Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline blasts has ended a hunger strike he began on October 31 after Italian authorities pledged to uphold his rights, his lawyer said on Tuesday. – Reuters
The European Commission is considering setting up a dedicated intelligence cell to strengthen security amid geopolitical difficulties, an EU spokesperson said on Tuesday, adding that the initiative is still at an early stage. – Reuters
In a warehouse more than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) from Ukraine’s capital, workers in northern Denmark painstakingly piece together anti-drone devices. Some of the devices will be exported to Kyiv in the hopes of jamming Russian technology on the battlefield, while others will be shipped across Europe in efforts to combat mysterious drone intrusions into NATO’s airspace that have the entire continent on edge. – Associated Press
The European Union reinforced a warning to Slovakia over constitutional changes that prioritize national law over EU legislation, with a senior official saying the bloc’s executive arm will decide soon whether to take legal action. – Bloomberg
The UK government rejected a request by the European Commission for as much as €6.75 billion ($7.8 billion) to join its flagship defense fund, a blow to post-Brexit relations under Prime Minister Keir Starmer that also risks damaging Europe’s efforts to deter Russia. – Bloomberg
An impasse over Russian oil and imminent US sanctions has put Serbia at loggerheads with its traditional ally in Moscow. Added differences over Russian gas supplies and Serbia’s arms trade have ramped up the tensions, with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic trading barbs with the Kremlin. – BBC
Dozens of people rallied in Vienna on Tuesday against an event hosted by Austria’s first far-right parliamentary speaker that was denounced by critics as antisemitic. – Agence-France Presse
As a NATO anti-submarine warfare exercise kicked off this week, top commanders said that with Sweden in the alliance, the Baltic Sea is now a “lake full of NATO submarines” under unified command. – Breaking Defense
Africa
Women fleeing Sudan’s al-Fashir city report killings, systematic rape and the disappearance of their children following its capture by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the U.N. agency for women said on Tuesday. – Reuters
The U.N. Human Rights Office said on Tuesday it believes hundreds of people were killed in Tanzania in protests that erupted during last month’s elections, adding it has received reports that security forces are hiding bodies. – Reuters
Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency is working with its U.S. and British counterparts to investigate the origins of a $235 million cocaine shipment seized at Lagos’ Tincan Port, in one of the country’s largest drug hauls. – Reuters
The U.N. migration agency warned on Tuesday that humanitarian efforts in Sudan’s war-torn North Darfur region might come to a complete halt unless immediate funding and safe delivery of relief supplies are ensured. – Associated Press
The European Union and Indian navies have taken over a ship used by pirates off the coast of Somalia to seize a Malta-flagged tanker, the EU force said Wednesday. – Associated Press
James Stavridis writes: While Somalia itself has little capability, neighboring Kenya has been helpful in prosecuting captured pirates. Djibouti, the tiny country at the Horn of Africa, where the US maintains a military base, could help. Saudi Arabia, with its extensive Red Sea coast and capable navy, might be willing to engage. As so often is the case in creating global security, the keys are working with allies, partners and friends; enhancing private-public cooperation; and digging into the root causes of problems. Otherwise, the pirates of Somalia may terrorize the seas again. – Bloomberg
The Americas
The U.S. Navy’s largest aircraft carrier arrived in waters near Latin America on Tuesday, expanding the American military’s buildup as the Trump administration seeks to ratchet up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. – Wall Street Journal
Some of the world’s biggest deposits of copper—needed for everything from air conditioners to electric vehicles—sit untapped underneath Argentina, a country that mining companies considered off limits because of its red tape and economic turmoil. That’s about to change fast. – Wall Street Journal
Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the COP30 climate summit venue on Tuesday and clashed with security guards at the entrance to demand climate action and forest protection. – Reuters
Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered Colombian public security forces to suspend intelligence sharing with U.S. intelligence agencies until Washington stops attacking boats in the Caribbean. – Reuters
Venezuela is deploying weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, and is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a U.S. air or ground attack, according to sources with knowledge of the efforts and planning documents seen by Reuters. – Reuters
A rare blackout hit the entire Dominican Republic on Tuesday, snarling traffic and paralyzing businesses in the country of nearly 11 million people. – Associated Press
Chileans will go to the polls Sunday to elect their next president in a polarized election where security is front of mind. – Associated Press
North America
A lifelong politician who just last year was projected to become prime minister of Canada, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is now struggling to define his party’s future and offer Canadians a viable alternative to Prime Minister Mark Carney. – Reuters
Group of Seven foreign ministers will meet in Canada on Tuesday, with Ukraine and the Middle East set to be high on the agenda as U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker peace face headwinds. – Reuters
Mexico on Tuesday implemented a new tariff for sugar imports due to falling international prices and a risk of oversupply in the domestic market, according to the country’s Official Gazette. – Reuters
United States
Members of the House of Representatives headed back to Washington on Tuesday, after a 53-day break, braving the congestion at the nation’s tangled airports for a vote that could bring the longest U.S. government shutdown in history to a close. – Reuters
The U.S. government “made money” by giving support to the Argentine central bank ahead of last month’s midterm election in the South American country, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday. – Reuters
The Supreme Court extended a pause on Tuesday of a lower court’s order for the Trump administration to use child nutrition funds to fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, as the House of Representatives is expected to pass legislation to reopen the government as soon as Wednesday. – Washington Examiner
Cybersecurity
Britain plans to strengthen its public services’ defences against cyberattacks, requiring companies that provide services to private and public sector organisations such as the National Health Service to meet strict security standards. – Reuters
German police have detained a Polish-German citizen accused of running a site on the dark web that agitated for the murder of prominent politicians, prosecutors said on Tuesday. – Reuters
The Senate’s approval Monday of a funding package that would reopen the government would also extend authorization of the well-reviewed State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. – Statescoop
Defense technology company Anduril will provide its AI-powered Lattice software platform to the Army for the Integrated Battle Command System Maneuver (IBCS-M) program, the contractor announced Monday. – Defensescoop
Defense
The West needs to see the bigger picture when it comes to the drone threat, a counter-drone tech company is warning. The number of potential targets is skyrocketing, going well beyond war. – Business Insider
Following successful field exercises simulating defense against drone incursions, the U.S. Army’s Northern Command has formed an operational team to rapidly counter drone threats to military bases within the United States. – Defense News
The Navy has awarded General Dynamics a $1.7 billion contract to construct two more John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oilers, T-AO 215 and T-AO 216, the second and third ships of an eight-vessel multi-ship contract. – Breaking Defense
The Air Force is seeking industry’s ideas on a potential new project to develop an anti-air missile that can be rapidly produced for around $500,000 per munition. – Defensescoop