- A man received a $15 million settlement form Baltimore City. He was wrongfully imprisoned for 20 years. [Link]
- Amazon is providing the US intelligence community with a web service to host classified documents for $600 million. [Link]
- Saudi Arabi agrees to buy $7 billion in precision-guided bombs from the US. [Link]
- A US plane crashed near the USS Ronald Regan near Japan. Eight sailors were rescued and three are still missing. The search for the remaining three sailors has been called off. [Link]
- Catalonia’s ruling political party drops the independence push and looks for talks with Spain. [Link]
- Putin signs a new law to allow Russia to require US-backed media register as a foreign agent. [Link]
- Separatists in Ukraine have a new leader. [Link]
- Myanmar and Bangladesh agree to a UN deal to allow Rohingya refugees return to Myanmar. 600,000 Rohingya refugees fled Myanmar for Bangladesh when Myanmar started an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya. [Link] The US declared the Myanmar campaign against the Rohingya to be ethnic cleansing. [Link]
- Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sworn in as the new president of Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe will not face any charges for crimes he committed as president. [Link]
- The US claims to have killed 100 militants in Somalia. [Link]
- Over 300 people were killed in an attack on a mosque in the Sinai. 25-30 militants attacked the Sufi mosque. A group has not claimed responsibility for the attack. [Link]
- Israel plans to deport 40,000 African migrants. [Link]
- Israel moves to block a UN report criticizing Israel for building settlements. [Link]
- Lebanon’s Prime Minister returns to Lebanon. He announced he no longer plans to resign as president. [Link]
- Trump told Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan that the US will end weapon transfers to the Syrian Kurds. [Link] Moon of Alabama reacts. [Link]
- The Pentagon is expected to admit the US has 2,000 troops in Syria. [Link]
- Airwars reports on October casualties from the war against ISIS. Airwars also looks at the results from the Raqqa liberation. [Link]
