France is under its highest-level security alert (WaPo) after three people were killed at a church in the southern city of Nice yesterday in what President Emmanuel Macron described as an “Islamist terror attack.”

The knife-wielding suspect was identified (AP) as a twenty-one-year-old Tunisian man, who has been hospitalized and is in critical condition after being shot by police. The attack comes amid heightened tensions (NYT) between France and many Muslim countries and weeks after the beheading of a French teacher who showed students cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, which is forbidden in Islam. A guard outside the French consulate in Saudi Arabia was also wounded in a knife attack (Al Jazeera) yesterday. Macron said he would deploy as many as seven thousand members of the country’s antiterrorism security force nationwide. 

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ended a tour of Asia focused on criticizing Beijing with a last-minute stop in Vietnam (WSJ), which has territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea. Pompeo visited India, Indonesia, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka this week, and warned against China in each country. 

China/Japan: Japan will effectively ban China from supplying drones to the Japanese government in order to protect sensitive information, unnamed Japanese officials told Reuters. Japan must balance its security concerns with its economic dependence on China and navigate the increasingly fraught relationship between China and the United States, Japan’s top ally. 

This CFR Backgrounder explains the U.S.-Japan security alliance.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon was sworn in for a fifth term (RFE/RL), making him the longest-serving post-Soviet autocrat. He has won four elections since 1992, none of which have been considered free or fair by Western monitors. 

Kyrgyzstan: Opposition leader Adakhan Madumarov announced his intention to run (RFE/RL) in January’s presidential election, challenging acting President Sadyr Japarov.

The Donald J. Trump administration notified Congress of its intent to sell fifty F-35 fighter jets (Politico) to the United Arab Emirates, according to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY). The sale is made possible by a deal to normalize relations between Israel and the UAE. Engel said he worries that the sale could erode Israel’s military edge and potentially allow sensitive U.S. technology to fall into China or Russia’s hands. 

CFR’s Martin S. Indyk discusses the Israel-UAE peace deal on this episode of The President’s Inbox podcast. 

Iraq: Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a former top aide to Saddam Hussein, was reported dead (NYT) after evading capture by the United States for seventeen years. Douri had served in a number of high-ranking government posts, and rights groups accused him of using excessive military force.

Tanzanian President John Magufuli is set to be declared the winner (AP) of Wednesday’s election, despite widespread allegations of fraud. The country’s electoral commission said today that he received 83 percent of the vote with 60 percent of votes counted and that his party won an overwhelming majority in parliament, which some fear could lead to constitutional changes extending his rule. Tanzania’s main opposition candidate, Tundu Lissu, rejected the results and called for protests. 

Senegal: More than one hundred migrants drowned (NYT) after a ship caught fire and sank off the country’s coast. It is the deadliest shipwreck this year, a UN agency said.

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party suspended its former leader (Politico) Jeremy Corbyn for downplaying a national rights commission’s investigation of anti-semitism, which found the party was responsible for illegal harassment and discrimination. In response to the report, Corbyn called the level of anti-semitism in the party “dramatically overstated.”

A Canadian judge refused to dismiss the case (Reuters) to extradite Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou to the United States but will allow her to argue that the United States misrepresented evidence of alleged fraud in its extradition request. Huawei Canada hailed the decision as a “substantial victory.” 

This CFR Backgrounder examines Huawei, China’s controversial tech giant. 

Mexico: Foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said the government has expressed its “profound discontent” (Reuters) with the United States for not consulting Mexican officials before arresting former Mexican defense minister Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda in Los Angeles on drug-related charges.

States across the country are reporting record numbers of coronavirus cases. The United States saw at least ninety thousand new cases yesterday, more than one case per second (NYT), bringing the total number of confirmed cases to more than nine million.