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  • Trump Authorizes CIA Covert Operations in Venezuela

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    President Trump has authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct covert action in Venezuela, while also floating the idea of land strikes, in a broadening campaign against alleged drug trafficking.

    “I authorized for two reasons,” Trump said Wednesday at the White House, alleging Venezuelan leaders have “emptied their prisons into the United States of America” and “we have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela.”

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  • American Bankers Are Making a Mint Helping China Inc. Go Global

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    HONG KONG—Chinese companies are pushing across the globe to conquer new markets, and American financiers are making a mint by helping them. 

    The unlikely U.S.-China collaboration during heightened trade and military tensions between the two superpowers is raising concerns on Capitol Hill about national-security risks. But it is producing frothy markets in Hong Kong, the place where Wall Street and China Inc. meet for mutual profit.

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  • Opinion | Gaza Deal Is a Big Win for Trump—but Voters Are Fickle

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    He has secured a place in history, but the midterm elections are another matter.

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  • ‘I’ll Have Eric Call’: Trump Sets Up Son’s Meeting With Indonesian President

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    in Singapore and Ramadani Saputra in Jakarta, Indonesia

    President Trump’s company has said he won’t be involved in day-to-day management. But the president’s personal business and his government role intersected this week when he was heard on a hot mic arranging a meeting between his son Eric, who runs the family company, and Indonesia’s leader.

    In the exchange, captured on audio at a Middle East summit, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto referred to an issue about a region that was “not safe, securitywise” before asking Trump: “Can I meet Eric?”

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  • Trump Says Argentina Bailout Depends on Milei’s Party Winning Upcoming Elections

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    President Trump directly tied the $20 billion lifeline the U.S. is extending to Argentina to President Javier Milei’s success in the upcoming midterm elections.

    “If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina,” Trump said, sitting across a table at the White House from the visiting South American leader, who he also endorsed for re-election in 2027. “If he doesn’t win, we’re gone.”

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  • Madagascar Becomes the Latest Country to See a Gen Z Revolt

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    Its president is in hiding, an army unit has taken control and crowds of protesters are demanding sweeping social change.

    The wave of protests mushrooming around the world has now forced a change of leadership in Madagascar. After weeks of demonstrations over corruption and worsening living standards, the armed forces say they have taken control while President Andry Rajoelina has taken refuge in what he described as a secure, undisclosed location as he tries to shore up enough political support to regain power.

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  • How China and the U.S. Are Racing to De-Escalate the Trade War

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    President Trump is trying to publicly de-escalate tensions with China to soothe markets while privately keeping up pressure on Beijing—a difficult balancing act that is being closely watched by Wall Street.

    After threatening additional 100% tariffs on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1, Trump in recent days spoke with senior officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, about sending a message to the world that the U.S. wants to de-escalate trade tensions with China, according to people familiar with the matter.

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  • Opinion | Europe Joins the Steel Tariff Game

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    A feature of the Trump era is that while foreign governments object to the American President’s protectionism, in practice they often jump at the opportunity to join him in imposing tariffs. Witness the new levies the European Union proposed on imported steel last week.

    Brussels plans to cut in half the volume of steel allowed to enter the EU tariff-free each year, to 18.3 million tons. For imports above that level, the tariff rate will rise to 50% from 25%. This is a gift to struggling European steel makers that have long begged for protection.

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  • Trump Declares Gaza War Over During Middle East Victory Lap

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    President Trump declared an end to the Gaza war Monday after more than two years and vowed to extend his peacemaking to the wider Middle East, taking a victory lap in a region still facing deep divisions and numerous unresolved conflicts. 

    “This isn’t only the end of a war, this is the end of an age of terror and death,” Trump said in an address to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. “This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.”

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  • Dutch Government Takes Control of Chip Maker From Chinese Parent

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    The Dutch government wrested control of a Netherlands-based semiconductor company from its Chinese owner, a new flare-up in tensions between China and the West over key technologies and materials.

    Officials at the Dutch Economic Affairs Ministry said Sunday that they had assumed the power to block or reverse decisions at Nexperia 600745 -10.00%decrease; red down pointing triangle, which is owned by China’s Wingtech Technology, to keep Europe from losing “technological knowledge and capabilities” necessary for its economic security.

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  • Israel Prepares to Receive Its Last Living Hostages Held by Hamas

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    Israeli authorities were preparing to receive the last hostages still alive in Gaza, after Hamas told mediators it had 20 living captives in its custody and was ready to begin setting them free.

    The message, which the militant group sent to Israel through intermediaries, marked the first time Hamas has confirmed the number of hostages it holds. It also addressed uncertainty about whether Hamas, in its battered and fragmented state, could quickly assemble all the living hostages and pointed to a possibly accelerated timetable for their release.

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  • A Coordinated Squeeze Play Forced Hamas to Accept a Deal It Didn’t Want

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    SHARM EL-SHEIKH—When Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya first saw President Trump’s plan for peace in Gaza, which demanded his group disarm with few concrete steps to make sure Israel would end the war, his immediate reaction was no.

    The plan, heavily amended by Israel and presented to Hamas by the Qatari prime minister and Egypt’s spy chief, looked nothing like what Hayya had been led to expect, officials familiar with the discussions said. Hayya, who less than a month earlier had been a target of Israel’s audacious attack on Hamas in Qatar, told his visitors the group would keep its Israeli hostages until it had enforceable guarantees the war would end.

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  • Jared Kushner Is Back, and His Imprint Is All Over the Gaza Deal

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    The man who had sworn off any formal role in President Trump’s second term has been at the center of every decision leading up to the breakthrough agreement between Israel and Hamas.

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  • North Korea’s Kim Flaunts New ICBM Able to Reach U.S.

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    SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, armed with nuclear weapons and powerful friends, signaled his determination to stand up to Washington with an elaborate military parade Friday night that featured advancements in an arsenal capable of striking the U.S.

    Fresh from staking his place on the global stage at Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s parade of military firepower in Beijing last month, Kim oversaw a display starring his new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile Friday at Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party. The ICBM was called the “Hwasong-20.”

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  • Qatar Facility at U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho Sparks Controversy

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    A Friday announcement by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about a new training arrangement with Qatar’s Air Force has sparked a backlash from President Trump’s supporters, prompting him to issue a clarification later in the day.

    During a visit by Qatar’s defense minister, Hegseth announced a new facility that would be built at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Elmore County, Idaho, to host and train Qatari pilots on U.S.-made F-15s.

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  • Canadian Pensions Might Need to Invest More Domestically, Official Says

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    TORONTO—Canada’s large public pensions might need to start investing more in Canadian businesses as the country tries to shield its economy from the effects of President Trump’s tariff war, Industry Minister Melanie Joly said.

    Conversations with the pension funds for more domestic investment have already started, Joly said in a telephone interview.

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  • Opinion | A Nobel for Venezuela’s Iron Lady

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    Allies of President Trump are grousing that he didn’t win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. But it’s hard to fault the admirable choice, announced Friday, of Venezuelan freedom fighter María Corina Machado.

    The Nobel committee called her “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent time,” and we’d drop the geographic caveat. In the personal risks and sacrifices she has made for democracy, she sets an example for the world.

    Educated as an industrial engineer, Ms. Machado has been a leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela for more than 20 years. In 2002 she watched Hugo Chávez destroy institutions and consolidate power. She resisted by co-founding the nonprofit Súmate—“Join” in English—to engage Venezuelans to become politically active.

    She was elected to the National Assembly in 2010. In 2013 she was beaten during a legislative session by pro-government members who broke her nose. In March 2014 during a visit to the border with Colombia, she was kidnapped for several hours by armed hoodlums. The following week the regime expelled her from the Assembly.

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  • Macron Reappoints Prime Minister Who Just Quit 

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    PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, a post he quit less than a week ago, ratcheting up fears of continued political paralysis in France.

    In reinstating Lecornu, a close ally, Macron risks deepening the frustration of lawmakers in the fractious National Assembly, particularly leftist members who have demanded a break with the past.

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  • Opinion | The Peace Deal Proves That Netanyahu’s Critics Were Wrong

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    They kept insisting the prime minister was prolonging the war for political reasons.

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  • Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

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    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship in the country.

    Announcing the prize, Nobel Committee Chairman Jorgen Watne Frydnes described Machado as a “brave and committed champion of peace…who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”

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