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U.S. warns Ethiopia and Eritrea against another conflict.

Today's events

• Horn of Africa.

  State warned that rising cross-border tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea could affect the entire region, urged maximum restraint, and called for a return to the 2018 peace framework.¹Oct 3 · State
• Russian laundering network.

  Treasury's financial-crimes bureau found the A7 Network — a Russia-linked sanctions-evasion and laundering service used by Iran and its proxies — a primary money-laundering concern, and proposed cutting its sub-agents off from U.S. funds transfers.²Oct 2 · Treasury
• Diesel supplies.

  Sideline meetings at the U.S.-chaired Milwaukee trade ministerial contributed to an anticipated release of more diesel into the global market; Mexico and Argentina joined a forced-labor statement, and members discussed reforming most-favored-nation treatment.³Oct 2 · USTR
• September payrolls.

  Nonfarm payrolls rose 29,000 and unemployment held at 4.2 percent; health care added 17,000 jobs and construction 11,000, while the number of unemployed people stood at 7.1 million.⁴Oct 2 · BLS
• Record gas output.

  Gross natural-gas withdrawals hit an all-time high of 137 billion cubic feet per day in July, driven by new Texas and New Mexico wells; the Hugh Brinson Pipeline opened early, easing Permian bottlenecks.⁵Oct 2 · EIA
• Lebanon reversal.

  Presidential Determination 2026-25, signed September 30, revokes prior presidential determinations on Lebanon; the text was filed for public inspection October 2 and publishes October 5.⁶Oct 2 · Fed. Reg.
• Most-wanted capture.

  Anibal Canelon Aguirre, the first cyber fugitive added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, appeared in a Nebraska court; prosecutors say he built malware that drained U.S. ATMs for Tren de Aragua.⁷Oct 2 · DOJ
• Help-desk flaws exploited.

  CISA added two actively exploited Zammad vulnerabilities — a session-fixation flaw and an improper-privilege-management flaw — to its catalog, obliging federal civilian agencies to prioritize patching exposed assets.⁸Oct 2 · CISA
• Liquor pricing settlement.

  The FTC settled with Southern Glazer's, the largest U.S. wine and spirits distributor, over charging independent retailers more than chains — its first Robinson-Patman case in a generation, covering 26 states.⁹Oct 2 · FTC

Allied Governments

• Japan's oil release.

  Japan told the G7 leaders' October 3 energy call that it has released more than 100 million barrels of stockpiled oil, exceeding its quota, and launched an Asian supply-resilience framework in April.^aOct 3 · Japan MoFA
• North Korea launch.

  After a North Korean ballistic missile launch, Japanese, U.S., and South Korean foreign-ministry officials held a three-way call, calling the launch a violation of UN Security Council resolutions.^bOct 3 · Japan MoFA
• Canada's northern bid.

  Defence ministers of the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force, meeting at Keflavik, noted Canada's application to join and agreed to advance a recommendation on membership, while deepening Ukraine's participation.^cOct 3 · UK MoD

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