Situation Reports

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warner, revealed new details about the China-backed Salt Typhoon hack against U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, including confirmation that the group has been able to read victims' SMS text messages and listen in on their phone calls in real-time, The Washington Post reported Nov. 21.

The United Kingdom's competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), is poised to launch a new probe into Apple and Google after an independent inquiry group found they are ''holding back innovation'' in mobile phone browser competition by maintaining an effective duopoly on mobile ecosystems, Reuters reported Nov. 22.

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi is expected to meet with four presidential candidates who ran in the country's contested Oct. 9 general election, including opposition leader Venancio Mondlane, on Nov. 26 to discuss the ongoing post-election crisis, Club of Mozambique reported Nov. 22.

Thailand's Constitutional Court dismissed a complaint alleging that former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is exercising undue control over the ruling Pheu Thai party, or PTP, which he founded though is no longer a member of, and is using that influence to undermine the country's monarchy, The Bangkok Post reported Nov. 22.

Heavy gunfire erupted in South Sudan's capital of Juba on the evening of Nov. 21 near the residence of the country's former spy chief, Gen. Akol Koor Kuc, Reuters reported Nov. 22.

Iran announced on Nov. 22 that it had issued an order to launch a ''significant series of new and advanced centrifuges of various types'' after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Nov. 21 adopted a motion to censure Iran over its failure to fully cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog's inspectors.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced that Washington would furnish the Philippines with an undisclosed number of unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, for use within the so-called West Philippine Sea (the section of the South China Sea within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone) that it disputes with China, the South China Morning Post reported Nov. 21.

Thirteen months after signing an investment framework agreement with the China Road and Bridge Corporation, or CRBC, to construct the Funan Techo Canal in Cambodia, the expected Chinese funding has not materialized, Reuters reported Nov. 21.

ing former ministers, advisors and military officials, over their alleged involvement in a coup attempt after Bolsonaro lost the 2022 presidential election, g1 reported Nov. 21.

Russia struck a facility in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro using what Russian President Vladimir Putin said was a new hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile, or IRBM, named Oreshnik allegedly in response to aggressive actions of NATO countries against Russia, Reuters reported on Nov. 21.