Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with (Anadolu) U.S. President Donald J. Trump in Washington today. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has opposed the visit (Politico), citing Turkey’s recent incursion into Syria. 

Ahead of the meeting, Trump reportedly offered Erdogan (WaPo) a $100 billion trade deal and exemption from U.S. sanctions over Turkey’s purchase of a Russian missile defense system. The offer is seen as an incentive for Ankara, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally, to maintain a cease-fire in northern Syria that was agreed to about a month ago. Human rights groups have warned (AP) of rights abuses and possible war crimes by Turkey-backed forces in northern Syria since the start of the incursion.

The Chinese telecom giant will pay its staff more than $280 million in bonuses and double most employees’ pay for last month for helping the company weather a U.S. ban on its products, employees told the Financial Times.

This CFR Backgrounder looks at the controversy over Huawei.

Philippines: Six soldiers were killed and twenty others wounded by improvised explosive devices and a firefight with communist insurgents in Eastern Samar Province, the Philippine military said. The insurgency began in the late 1960s (Rappler).

The country’s election commission announced that the result of a recount, originally set to be released tomorrow, will be further delayed (TOLO) due to complaints from candidates about the tallying process at some eight thousand polling stations.

Afghanistan: A car bombing during morning rush hour in Kabul killed at least seven people (RFE/RL), the Interior Ministry said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Israeli air strikes killed nine people (Reuters) in Gaza today, according to medical officials, bringing the total killed in the past two days to nineteen. Militants from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group fired around two hundred rockets into Israel yesterday after an Israeli strike killed one of the group’s commanders.

Israel: The European Court of Justice ruled that products from East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and Israeli settlements in the West Bank must be labeled with the word “settlement” in order to be sold in the European Union (Jerusalem Post).

The country’s central bank plans to inject about a billion of the new Zimbabwean dollars (Al Jazeera) into the money supply over the next six months in a bid to address a cash shortage.

CFR looks at Zimbabwe’s long-standing financial troubles.

Defense ministers from more than two dozen European Union countries approved thirteen joint projects (DW), including developing an underwater anti-submarine system and electronic warfare capabilities.

Spain: The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, led by acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, announced a coalition deal (FT) with the far-left Podemos party. The parliament must still approve the coalition, which would govern from a minority position.

Leaders of the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—will meet in the Brazilian capital (Al Jazeera) today to focus primarily on economic ties. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are set to hold a bilateral meeting beforehand.  

Bolivia: Senator Jeanine Anez declared herself interim president (FT) after lawmakers failed to reach a quorum to approve former President Evo Morales’s resignation and elect a new president of the Senate.

An experimental Ebola vaccine that is being used in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been approved (VOA) by the European Commission, and is expected to soon be prequalified by the World Health Organization for global use. It is the first time an Ebola vaccine has been licensed anywhere in the world

This CFR Backgrounder looks at Ebola outbreaks in Central and West Africa.