🇸🇩⚔️🇸🇩 Sudan Civil War: [5/11/2026]: Situation on Kordofan front: Today, the SAF launched a new operation to the south and west of El Obeid with the aim of reaching Nahud town and lifting the siege (once again) on Dilling.

- In the east, government troops recaptured Mansuka, Abu Qud and Umm Samima.

- In the south, the SAF recaptured Kazgil and Hamadi (which was recaptured by the RSF following a counter-attack).

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🇸🇸🇸🇩⚔️🇸🇩 Sudan Civil War: [5/11/2026]:

Situation on Blue Nile front: Two weeks after the government recaptured the area, the SPLM/RSF launched a new offensive towards the Rosseires area, managing to retake the town of Al Bukuri once again.

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🇸🇾🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️ — Syria has sent military advisers and trainers to Saudi Arabia amidst KSA's war with Ansarallah, two Syrian military sources and a senior U.S. official. A senior U.S. official says the Syrian teams arrived to train both Saudi forces and Yemeni PLC forces operating inside KSA.

A senior Syrian diplomat and a Saudi official denied the presence of Syrian units was related to Ansarallah, saying the Syrians were there to be trained by KSA.

🇺🇸 Democrats are preparing investigations into major U.S. companies, with Apple, Meta and businesses linked to Elon Musk among the early targets, following the party’s victories in both chambers of Congress, according to the Washington Post

House Democrats are examining Trump’s use of Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot to help plan the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The Washington Post says that Apple could face scrutiny over its hosting of tracking apps used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while Meta is being targeted over NDAs imposed on local governments during data centre development

Corporate executives and lawyers are preparing for congressional investigations, with law firms holding emergency meetings and offering advice to companies with close ties to the Trump administration.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 US warns China it must ‘immediately’ meet terms of Busan trade deal

Washington says Beijing is not fulfilling commitments to increase supply of rare earths and other critical products

US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent and US trade representative Jamieson Greer delivered the message in a call on Friday morning with He Lifeng, the Chinese vice-premier in charge of trade negotiations with Washington.

“Secretary Bessent emphasised the importance of China fully and immediately implementing its commitments made in Busan and raised concerns about recent Chinese actions,” Treasury said in a readout obtained by the FT. “He underscored that continued progress depends on concrete results and that the US will closely assess China’s implementation of the arrangement,” it added. The Busan ceasefire, which was agreed in the South Korean port city in October 2025, expires on January 10

When Xi visited Washington in September, the two sides extended the original deadline by two months until January 2027 after negotiators failed to resolve differences between the countries. One US official said Bessent and Greer made clear that Trump viewed the situation as a “priority” and that China had to live up to its Busan pledges. The warning comes two weeks before Trump and Xi are expected to meet in Shenzhen where China is hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit.

The FT reported last week that Xi may host a trilateral meeting with Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. The trade issue is not expected to be a large part of the Trump-Xi meeting in Shenzhen, but will almost certainly be discussed in more detail when the US and Chinese presidents meet at the G20 in Miami in December. Bessent and Greer are expected to meet their Chinese counterparts in person at some point between Apec and the G20.

In September, US officials told the FT that China was only fulfilling two-thirds of its Busan pledge on rare earths. One person familiar with the situation said Beijing had not increased the supply of rare earths since Bessent raised concerns directly with He in New York in September ahead of Xi’s Washington meeting with Trump.

China has rejected US claims that it is not fulfilling its commitment on rare earths. The US has concluded that China is upholding pledges on purchases of soybeans but has not lived up to its promises for other agricultural produce.

The US is also concerned about Chinese restrictions on the export of yttrium, a critical rare earth for everything from jet engines to missiles, to Japan, which produces components for products manufactured in America. Local companies have warned the Japanese government that their stockpiles are running dangerously low.

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🇩🇪❌🇺🇸 Leader of the Der Flügel faction within the AfD, Björn Höcke:

"The Federal Republic of Germany is a vassal state of the USA. We are an occupied country. Being sovereign, which we Germans are not, is a very, very exhausting state. So someone who really wants to be sovereign pays a high price. And yet I would still like to experience it someday, living again in a sovereign Germany."

🔗 Oliver Sept (@sept_oliver)