US News
- Biden is considering keeping a Trump-era Pentagon rule that allows the Department of Defense to carry out psyops with less oversight from the State Department. [Link]
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russia is advancing illegal claims in the Arctic. [Link]
- The US is planning a 27-nation naval war game near Crimea. [Link]
Myanmar
- Activists groups in Myanmar report 800 deaths since the military took control over the government in February. [Link]
- The US imposed sanctions on the State Administrative Council and 16 other people. [Link]
Israel
- Biden approves a nearly $750 million sale of bombs to Israel. [Link]
- House Dems will ask Biden to suspend the planned arms sale to Israel in order to review the sale. [Link]
- Israel strikes have hit medical facilities and damaged roads making it more difficult for the people of Gaza to get to hospitals. [Link]
- 55,000 people have been displaced by Israel’s bombing of Gaza. Amnesty International says the Israeli strikes on medical and water treatment facilities may amount to war crimes. [Link]
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he has not seen evidence proving Hamas used an office building that held the AP office in Gaza. [Link]
- On a call with the Israeli President Netanyahu, Biden said he supported a ceasefire. However, when the UN Security Council put forward a resolution calling for a ceasefire, the US vetoed it. [Link]
Iraq
- The US claims it carried out nine airstrikes on five ISIS hideouts in the northern Iraqi mountains. [Link]
