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White House hosts Russian and Ukrainian officials.

Today's events

• Oleshky ceasefire.

  The White House gathered Russian and Ukrainian officials behind the local ceasefire in Oleshky, which let nearly 800 civilians evacuate; Kyiv gave the First Lady its Order of Princess Olga.¹Nov 5 · WH
• Cuba sanctions.

  Rubio designated ten targets — Cuban elites, a crude-oil shipping network, state importers and China-based military suppliers — blocked five vessels, and opened Cuba's electronics, manufacturing, marine and technology sectors to sanctions.²Nov 5 · State
• Oil's war premium.

  New York Fed research found U.S. drilling and inventories absorbed the Iran war's supply shock, filling half the global gap in the second quarter — but stockpiles stopped falling in July.³Nov 5 · NY Fed
• Scam-compound sanctions.

  State and Treasury sanctioned four people and 41 companies tied to Cambodia's Prince Group, whose Southeast Asian compounds run cyber-enabled fraud against Americans, plus a Malaysian running scammers in Madagascar.⁴Nov 5 · State
• Super-intelligence task force.

  The Justice Department created a Super Intelligence Task Force under Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward to prosecute misuse of the technology by foreign states, criminal groups and companies.⁵Nov 5 · DOJ
• Cold-chain intrusions.

  Five agencies warned that hackers are remotely altering refrigeration controllers at grocery and cold-storage sites worldwide, forcing continuous heating and defrost cycles that destroy inventory and create fire hazards.⁶Nov 5 · CISA
• Iran emergency renewed.

  Amid the Iran conflict that began early this year, the President extended for another year the national emergency first declared in 1979, saying relations “have not yet normalized.”⁷Nov 5 · Fed. Reg.
• Uranium enrichment bill.

  House Energy and Commerce reported the American Enrichment Deployment Act to the floor, rewriting Atomic Energy Act licensing procedures so new uranium enrichment plants can be approved faster.⁸Nov 6 · House
• First orbital assembly.

  A Pentagon-funded Caltech payload became the first to build a structure in orbit automatically, joining composite truss members and deploying a reflective mesh — a step toward kilometer-scale space antennas.⁹Nov 4 · DARPA

Allied Governments

• Full ceasefire pressed.

  Britain told the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe that Ukraine has accepted the American offer of an immediate unconditional ceasefire and Russia has not, citing 55 civilians killed in two recent strikes.^aNov 5 · UK FCDO
• Counter-drone catalogue.

  NATO opened a marketplace letting allies buy 16 pre-vetted counter-drone systems from five firms without new tenders, drawing on capabilities already fielded in allied countries and Ukraine.^bNov 5 · NATO
• Iraq at Brussels.

  Iraq's national security adviser led a delegation to NATO headquarters to discuss long-term cooperation, eight months after the alliance pulled its Iraq advisory mission back to Naples.^cNov 5 · NATO

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