The Weekly Report: November 2-9 2025
United States
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it was cutting air travel by 10 percent across 40 “high volume” markets in order to maintain air travel safety. The move was in response to air traffic controllers and other essential airport employees not showing up to work. Pilots reported that they were beginning to notice fatigue in air traffic controllers, a report that was part of the reason the reduction in flights was taken.
Asia
The Ministry of Commerce in China announced that it had suspended export controls for a year following the implemnataion of the export controls last month. The export controls would have affected rare earth exports to the U.S.. Rare earths are critical to the production of sophisticated military hardware among other things which would have had a critical impact if the export controls were not suspended.
Europe
President Trump announced that he was open to allowing Hungary to be exempt from his sanctions on countries that buy Russian Oil. Viktor Orban, the President of Hungary, argued that it would be very difficult for his country to buy oil from other countries. President Trump and Orban discussed other issues during their meeting such as the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Americas
A mayor in western Mexico was shot and killed last week while attending Day of the Dead celebrations. Carlos Manzo was a critic of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for failing to put and end to the cartel related violence int he country. He spoke out publicly against the cartels for extorting avocado and lime producers, a key part of the city’s economy he governed.
Africa
The Sudanese paramilitary group, the R.S.F, announced that it had reached a truce in the war. The R.S.F has been widely accused of war crimes against civilians. It is unclear whether of not the Sudanese Military has agreed to the truce. The Sudanese military has said that it would only stop fighting if the R.S.F put is arms down.
Middle East
The United Nations Security Council voted to remove sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara. Al-Shara once had a 10 million dollar bounty on his head by the U.S. and was at one point an Al-Qaeda terrorist. However after his group HTS overthrew Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad, he has been welcomed into the international community.
