Situation Reports

According to Canadian official Victor Fedeli, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit New Delhi from March 1-2 to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Reuters reported on Feb. 17.

The United States has deployed approximately 100 of the planned 200 troops to Nigeria's northeastern Bauchi state at the reported request of the Nigerian government, Al Jazeera reported on Feb. 16.

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is discussing a potential "agreement" with the Cuban government, also calling Cuba "a failed nation," DW reported on Feb. 16.

Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators convened in Geneva, Switzerland, for two days of U.S.-mediated talks, Reuters reported on Feb. 17.

Kremlin aide and Maritime Board chairman Nikolai Patrushev warned that Russia could deploy its navy to prevent European states from seizing Russian vessels and would break any attempted maritime blockade, Kommersant reported on Feb. 17.

The Australian government announced it will provide $2.8 billion to advance construction of a nuclear submarine shipyard in Osborne in the state of South Australia, describing it as an initial installment toward a project projected to cost approximately $21 billion over the coming decades, Reuters reported on Feb. 17.

The United States and Iran held the second round of Omani-mediated indirect nuclear talks in Geneva, Switzerland, focused on limitations on Iran's nuclear program and verification involving international nuclear inspectors, Reuters reported on Feb. 17.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a new national defense industrial strategy designed to increase spending on equipment produced by domestic companies and broadly pivot away from the United States, in favor of trusted suppliers in Europe and Asia, for kit that Canadian companies cannot produce effectively, CBC News reported on Feb. 17.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is "close" to cutting ties with and designating artificial intelligence startup Anthropic a "supply chain risk" amid negotiations on terms of use for the U.S. military to use Anthropic's Claude AI models, Axios reported on Feb. 17.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his Feb. 12 State of the Nation address that the government is committed to creating a fully independent state-owned transmission entity, which would own and operate the country's electricity grid and manage the electricity market.