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It's April 24, 2023, and this is your DSR Daily Brief. I'm Chris Cotnor. Our top stories from international outlets this morning.

According to Al Jazeera, foreign nations are rushing to get their citizens out of Sudan as rival military factions battle in the capital Cartouum where millions of residents are trapped inside their homes, many running low on water and food.

The eruption of fighting on April 15 between the army and the rapid support forces paramilitary group has triggered a humanitarian crisis, killed at least 420 people, and left behind charred tanks, gutted buildings, and shops that had been looted and torched.

As people attempted to flee the chaos over the weekend, foreign governments began landing aircraft and organizing convoys in Cartouum to pull out their nationals.

The United States had special forces using MH-47 Chinook helicopters swept into Sudan's battle-stricken capital from a nearby U.S. base, spending just one hour on the ground to bring out fewer than 100 people.

United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Twitter on Sunday that members of his country's armed forces had completed a complex and rapid evacuation of British diplomats and their families from Sudan.

Germany and France announced Sunday that they had begun evacuating their nationals and those from other countries. Other European countries, including Italy, the Netherlands, and Greece, also said they were planning rescue efforts.

Politico is reporting that as the drop-dead date to raise the nation's $31.4 trillion debt-sealing looms with no deal in sight, traders and executives are starting to get nervous that President Joe Biden and Republicans won't resolve the impasse until it's too late.

That sparked increasing concern about a potential threat that could rock markets until the world's largest economy into recession.

There is this view in DC that the market isn't freaking out enough and that may be true to an extent said Alec Phillips, chief political economist at Goldman Sachs.

But I've been dealing almost exclusively with this issue the last few weeks and there is actually more concern now than even in 2011 when standard and poor is downgraded U.S. debt during a similar standoff.

It's just that nobody knows when it's going to happen or what to do about it. How Wall Street investors react to a possible default is crucial because they're the ones who finance the country's enormous debt by buying the securities that the Treasury sells to fund the government.

If they shy away from the market, interest rates could skyrocket, squeezing the government, businesses, and consumers.

According to Political Europe, Hungary's troubled relationship with neighboring Ukraine spiraled again Friday as Prime Minister Victor Orban dismissed the country's NATO dreams with a one-word tweet.

What? The Prime Minister exclaimed in a Twitter post responding to a political article on NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's declaration in Kiev on Thursday that Ukraine's rightful place is in NATO.

Relations between Budapest and Kiev are tense. Hungary spent years blocking high-level NATO sessions with Ukrainian officials, ostensibly over concerns about the rights of Hungarians,

and despite condemning Russia's full-scale invasion, Hungary has refused to send weapons to aid its neighbor.

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