US News

• A Michigan police officer was charged with a felony after he allowed his police dog to needlessly attack a man for four minutes. [Link]
• Cuba accuses the US of promoting – potentially deadly – illegal migration to the US by allowing Cubans easy asylum once arriving to the US but refusing to process visas in Cuba. [Link]
• US officials say North Korea has been unresponsive to US backchannel communication attempts. [Link]

Great Power

• Russia says it will respond if the US deploys missiles to Japan. [Link]
• Politico reports Biden is preparing new sanctions targeting the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The pipeline will bring natural gas from Russia to Germany. [Link]
• The military is spending hundreds of millions to buy more anti-ship missiles to combat China. [Link]
• The FCC labeled five Chinese companies as “threats to national security.” [Link]

Myanmar

• Local reports say Myanmar security forces killed 38 protesters. [Link]

Afghanistan 

• A car bomb in Afghanistan killed seven, including two children. [Link]

Middle East

• Kosovo opened its embassy in Jerusalem. [Link]
• The Wall Street Journal reports Israel attacked at least 12 ships bringing Iranian oil to Syria since 2019. An Iranian ship was recently attacked in the Mediterranean Sea. [Link]
• National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the US is engaging in indirect communications with Iran though European countries. [Link]
• The US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said the US wouldn’t make any unilateral gestures to save the JCPOA. [Link]
• A UAE-owned company says a ship seized by the US did not contain Iranian oil, but Iraqi oil. [Link]

Yemen

• The US Envoy to Yemen says the US offered a ceasefire deal to the Houthi. [Link]
• Initially it appeared the Houthi rejected the US offer but Houthi leadership says they are not dismissing the proposal. [Link]
• Yemen’s Houthi hit a school that was stationing Saudi backed forces. Fifteen soldiers and three children were killed. [Link]