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• U.S. forces conduct strike in Somalia targeting al-Shabaab leader AFRICOM 03 Oct 2022 -- In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike against the al-Shabaab militant network in Somalia on October 1. The strike occurred near Jilib, about 370 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu.
• Remarks by President Biden on Hurricane Fiona Response and Recovery Efforts The White House 03 Oct 2022
• Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell En Route Ponce, Puerto Rico The White House 03 Oct 2022

Defense Policy / Programs

• Senior Military Official Holds a Background Briefing DoD 03 Oct 2022
• Philippines, US Marines kick off large-scale drills Radio Free Asia 03 Oct 2022 -- Filipino and U.S. Marines kicked off large-scale joint drills Monday in and around Philippine islands facing the South China Sea and in Japan, with Japanese and South Korean military personnel participating as observers for the first time, officials said.
• USS Sioux City (LCS 11) returns from historic deployment through 5th and 6th Fleets US Navy 03 Oct 2022 -- The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11) returned to Naval Station Mayport, Florida, Oct. 2, following its historic five-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operations.
• FRCE Moves Into Future With New Helicopter Blade Balancing System US Navy 03 Oct 2022 -- Rotor blades for the CH-53K King Stallion helicopter that arrive for rework at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) will be balanced on a new system that will save about $18 million by eliminating the need for building a new testing facility.
• FRCE Marks Maintenance Firsts with V-22 Repairs US Navy 03 Oct 2022 -- Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) is gearing up to return an MV-22 Osprey to the fleet after conducting a wing-off stow ring replacement on the aircraft, the first completion of this procedure by a Naval Aviation depot. In another inaugural depot-level repair, FRCE artisans tackled corrosion on the aircraft's K-fittings with the wing off, rather than the standard wing-on method; this required a novel approach to the process.
• Aircrew Receive New Training Devices to Improve Capability, Readiness US Navy 03 Oct 2022 -- The Naval Aviation Training Systems and Ranges program office recently delivered the first fully capable Naval Aircrewman Training Systems (NATS) and Marine Common Aircrew Trainers (MCAT) to the fleet.
• First Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Training Facility Opens US Navy 03 Oct 2022 -- The Navy opened a new facility July 27 at Joint Expeditionary Base (JEB) Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Virginia, that's dedicated to training Sailors who will operate the service's Family of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (FoSUAS).
• BAMS-D Unmanned Aircraft Returns After Long Deployment US Navy 03 Oct 2022 -- The Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator (BAMS-D) returned June 17 from Fifth Fleet to its home base at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, marking the end of a 13-year deployment that was originally intended to be just six months.
• Marine Attack Squadron 214 Transitions to the F-35B US Navy 03 Oct 2022 -- Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 214, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), conducted a re-designation ceremony March 25 at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma, Arizona.
• NAVEUR ships participate in exercise Joint Warrior 22-2 US Navy 03 Oct 2022 -- U.S. Naval Forces Europe (NAVEUR) ships join NATO allies for exercise Joint Warrior 22-2, Oct. 1, 2022.
• SECNAV Reinforces DoD Commitment to Island Nations US Navy Press Release 03 Oct 2022 -- WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Carlos Del Toro recently participated in two events focused on furthering the United States' relationships with island networks and island nations around the world.
• Memorandum on the Presidential Waiver of Statutory Requirements Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended The White House 03 Oct 2022
• 54th SFAB Completes Historic Honduras Deployment Army News 03 Oct 2022 -- The 54th Security Force Assistance Brigade recently made history as the first National Guard unit of its kind to activate and deploy in support of combatant command missions.
• Multinational exercise Silver Arrow 2022 closes with a bang Army News 03 Oct 2022 -- Multinational visitors from NATO visited the closing event for a live-fire demonstration of Exercise Silver Arrow, Sept. 29, 2022.
• DOD Office Looks to Effects of Climate Change on Department DoD News 03 Oct 2022 -- Earth's average annual temperature is rising, and as service members adjust to new climate realities, the Defense Department must do its part to combat climate change.
• Norway Deploys Soldiers At Oil, Gas Plants In Wake Of Nord Stream Leaks RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- NATO member Norway has posted soldiers to help guard major onshore oil and gas processing plants, its military said, as part of efforts to beef up security amid suspicion that sabotage caused leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipelines last week.
• Anger Over Russia's Battlefield Defeats Bursts Into The Open, Posing A Challenge For Putin RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- For weeks now, on the uncensored Telegram channels of hard-line nationalists and Russian military bloggers, there's been a litany of angry criticism of Russia's military commanders amid a stunning Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region and elsewhere resulting in substantial Russian losses.
• Responsible space behaviours: the UK commits not to destructively test direct ascent anti-satellite missiles UK FCDO 03 Oct 2022 -- The UK government made a statement today, committing not to destructively test direct ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missiles.
• Joint statement by Ministers of the Joint Expeditionary Force UK MOD 03 Oct 2022 -- Defence Secretary Ben Wallace met virtually with ministers from Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) partner nations to discuss attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
• Czech Republic to receive assistance worth $106 million from USA Czech Republic Ministry of Defence & Armed Forces 03 Oct 2022 -- The United States Congress endorsed a military assistance package for the Czech Republic valued at USD 100 million from the Foreign Military Financing program to bolster modernisation of the Czech Armed Forces and to partly replace the materiel supplies to Ukraine, plus additional USD six million from the Countering Russian Influence Fund for building deployable cyber response teams to be formed in the Czech Armed Forces.
• Indigenously Designed and Developed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) inducted into Indian Air Force India PIB 03 Oct 2022 -- In a big boost to Aatmanirbharatha in Defence, Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh today presided over the formal induction of Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), designed and developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), into the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Jodhpur. Naming LCH as "Prachanda", Raksha Mantri said that its induction comes during the Amrit kal when the Nation is celebrating Azadi ka Amrit Mahostav and a pointer to the future when IAF will be the top most force in the world, as also making the country fully AtmaNirbhar in Defence production requirements.
• Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Colombian President Gustavo Petro at a Joint Press Availability US Dept. of State 03 Oct 2022
• Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez at a Signing Ceremony to Support the Comprehensive Implementation of the Ethnic Chapter of the 2016 Peace Accord US Dept. of State 03 Oct 2022
• Secretary Blinken's Call with Kenyan President Ruto US Dept. of State 03 Oct 2022

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• 3 October 2022 - Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General United Nations 03 Oct 2022
• Yemen: Statement by the High Representative on the non-extension of the truce European External Action Service (EEAS) 03 Oct 2022 -- The European Union is deeply disappointed by the inability to reach an agreement on the extension of the truce in Yemen as proposed by UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg. Maximalist positions have not facilitated this task.
• UN Truce Expiration in Yemen US Dept. of State 03 Oct 2022 -- The United States expresses its deep concern that the UN-mediated truce in Yemen expired on October 2 without the parties reaching agreement to extend it.
• Somalia: Statement by the Spokesperson on the recent attacks in Beledweyne European External Action Service (EEAS) 03 Oct 2022 -- The recent attacks on government officials, security forces, first responders and innocent civilians in Beledweyne expose the recklessness of al-Shabaab in the wake of the successful security operations against the group in recent months.
• Iran calls for peaceful resolution of Azerbaijan-Armenia border dispute IRNA 03 Oct 2022 -- Major General Mohammad Bagheri, who is the chief of staff of Iran's Armed Forces, on Monday said that the Azerbaijan Republic and Armenia should resolve their border dispute through peaceful means.
• EU Envoy Calls For Probes Into Videos Exacerbating Tensions Between Armenia, Azerbaijan RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- The European Union's envoy for the South Caucasus and Georgia has called for investigations into videos that appear to show potential war crimes being committed by Azerbaijan and Armenia in recent clashes that have threatened a fragile cease-fire agreement ending the worst fighting between the two neighbors since a 2020 war over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

News Reports

• Russian Scientist Charged With Treason Dies While Under House Arrest RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- An 81-year-old Russian scientist placed under house arrest after being charged with high treason two years ago has died.
• Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker in exile vows to keep speaking out for city Radio Free Asia 03 Oct 2022 -- Former Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker Ted Hui has vowed to keep on fighting for Hong Kong's freedoms despite being handed a three-and-a-half year jail term in absentia.
• U.S. defense chief says no signs of 'imminent invasion' of Taiwan CNA 03 Oct 2022 -- United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has said he does not "see an imminent invasion" of Taiwan by China, and that he believed Beijing used House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in August as an opportunity to "begin to try to create a new normal."
• North Korea: Statement by the Spokesperson on the recent launch of ballistic missiles EEAS 03 Oct 2022
• North Korea ballistic missile launch: FCDO statement UK FCDO 03 Oct 2022
• Statement by NSC Spokesperson Adrienne Watson on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Ballistic Missile Launch The White House 03 Oct 2022
• Myanmar activists say junta will use SIM card registration to target opposition Radio Free Asia 03 Oct 2022 -- A recent order requiring anyone buying a SIM card to register their identity is a bid by Myanmar's military regime to crack down on anti-junta activities by leveraging personal data, analysts and pro-democracy activists said Monday.
• Myanmar junta hands 20 NLD members lengthy jail terms for 'terrorism' Radio Free Asia 03 Oct 2022 -- A prison court in Myanmar's Magway region has sentenced at least 20 National League for Democracy (NLD) members to lengthy jail terms on charges of violating the country's Counterterrorism Law, officials from the ousted political party said Monday.
• UN Warns Deadly Diseases Spreading Fast in Flood-Ravaged Pakistan VOA 03 Oct 2022 -- A senior U.N. official warns flood-ravaged Pakistan is entering a second wave of death and destruction from outbreaks of diseases, including malaria, dengue, diarrhea, scabies and other skin diseases.
• Explainer: European Leaders To Meet In Prague To Discuss Ukraine War, Hard Winter Ahead RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- Prague will be at the center of European politics this week as most of the continent's leaders gather for two meetings on October 6-7 to discuss the war in Ukraine and its implications on various policy fields. RFE/RL takes a closer look at what to expect.
• Early Results In Bosnian Vote Show Reformist Bosniak Candidate Winning Seat In Shared Presidency RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- The first preliminary results in Bosnia-Herzegovina's general election showed cooperation-prone Bosniak candidate Denis Becirovic on course to win a seat in the country's tripartite presidency.
• Bosnia's UN Overseer Opens A Can Of Worms After Close Of Polls In Crucial Elections RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- Bosnia-Herzegovina's general elections delivered a glimmer of hope to moderates amid challenges to incumbents steeped in the Balkan country's calcified ethnic rivalries.
• U.S. Imposes Sanctions Against Head Of Bosniak-Croat Federation For Alleged Misuse Of Power RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- The United States has imposed sanctions on the head of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Bosniak-Croat federation and others over the alleged misuse of pensioner data.
• Designation of Two Individuals and One Entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina US Dept. of State 03 Oct 2022 -- The United States is designating Fadil Novalic, Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH); Slobodan Stankovic, a businessman with close ties to Milorad Dodik, a Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) official previously designated for corruption and obstructing the Dayton Peace Agreement; and Stankovic's business entity, Integral Inzenjering A.D. Laktasi (Integral).
• Treasury Takes Additional Sanctions Actions Across Bosnia and Herzegovina US Treasury 03 Oct 2022 -- Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated two individuals and one business entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14033. These designations follow OFAC's September 26, 2022 designation of a corrupt state prosecutor in BiH and build on other recent sanctions imposed on individuals and entities in the region. Collectively, these actions underscore the United States' willingness to hold accountable those enabling divisive and destabilizing activities in the Western Balkans.
• Partial Results Show Party Of Bulgarian Ex-PM Borisov Winning Snap Poll RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- Partial results in Bulgaria's snap parliamentary elections show the center-right Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party of longtime leader Boyko Borisov has finished with the highest percentage of the vote, the fourth such poll in 18 months.
• Interview: Do Bulgaria's Snap Elections Signal A Shift Away From The West And Toward The Kremlin? RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- Bulgarians went to the polls on October 2 in the fourth time in 18 months in an election marked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as political instability and economic hardships in the EU's poorest member.
• Partial Results Show Party Of Bulgarian Ex-PM Borisov Winning Snap Poll RFE/RL 03 Oct 2022 -- Partial results in Bulgaria's snap parliamentary elections show the center-right Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party of longtime leader Boyko Borisov has finished with the highest percentage of the vote, the fourth such poll in 18 months.