NEWS SUMMARY AT THIS HOUR-THURSDAY
(UPDATES AND EDITING THROUGH 745AM)
A meeting of the UN Security Council today will discuss the nerve agent incidents in the Salisbury region of England earlier this year that killed one and sickened three others.
UK officials will brief the council on the two men suspected of bringing the nerve agent Novichok into the country. Prime Minister Theresa May told the House of Commons yesterday that the two men worked for Russian Military Intelligence.
The British Security Minister Ben Wallace says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "ultimately responsible" for what happened.
The British Security Minister Ben Wallace says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "ultimately responsible" for what happened.
The UN Security Council will discuss Syria on Friday. Syria is building up its forces in the north in preparation for a military offensive. The British Prime Minister Theresa May, US United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and others have been suggesting chemical weapons may be used by Syria. Russia and Syria say that British intelligence is working with Saudi backed jihadists to stage a false flag chemical attack.
The United States is chairing the Security Council this month and Nikki Haley has already chaired a meeting on the crackdown against opposition protesters by the government of Nicaragua. Haley compared the Nicaraguan government to that of Venezuela and said that President Daniel Ortega has adopted the tactics of dictators.
"TREASON?" President Trump tweeted last evening in response to anonymous op-ed piece in the "New York Times" said to be a from a top Administration official claiming many of the Administration's senior officials are "diligently working from within to frustrate parts of his agenda".
The unknown author added: "I would know. I am one of them".
This person also claimed that "adults in the room" are redirecting the presidents willingness to meet with "autocrats and dictators" such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's ruler Kim Jong Un.
In Sweden, the final poll from the "YouGov" polling firm shows the anti-European Union, anti-mass immigration Sweden Democrats leading with 24.8 percent. "YouGov" is one of two polls that have shown the Sweden Democrats leading, while a larger group of polls claim that the Social Democrats are leading.
The election is Sunday and polls show the Sweden Democrats holding the balance of power between the "Center-Left" and "Center-Right" coalitions of parties. Seats in Sweden's 349 seat parliament, the Riksdag, are allocated proportionally to all parties receiving four percent or more of the popular vote.
"TREASON?" President Trump tweeted last evening in response to anonymous op-ed piece in the "New York Times" said to be a from a top Administration official claiming many of the Administration's senior officials are "diligently working from within to frustrate parts of his agenda".
The unknown author added: "I would know. I am one of them".
This person also claimed that "adults in the room" are redirecting the presidents willingness to meet with "autocrats and dictators" such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's ruler Kim Jong Un.
In Sweden, the final poll from the "YouGov" polling firm shows the anti-European Union, anti-mass immigration Sweden Democrats leading with 24.8 percent. "YouGov" is one of two polls that have shown the Sweden Democrats leading, while a larger group of polls claim that the Social Democrats are leading.
The election is Sunday and polls show the Sweden Democrats holding the balance of power between the "Center-Left" and "Center-Right" coalitions of parties. Seats in Sweden's 349 seat parliament, the Riksdag, are allocated proportionally to all parties receiving four percent or more of the popular vote.
From Yemen's Civil War, the Houthi rebels launched four ballistic missiles at oil and petrochemical facilities in the Saudi Arabian city of Jizan. Saudi Arabia says 23 were injured from debris caused by missile interception.
The Saudis lead a coalition of foreign military forces supporting the Yemeni government against the Houthis, who are supported by Iran.
At least 7 are dead after a major earthquake struck Japan northernmost island of Hokkaido and about 40 others are missing. The 6.7 magnitude quake triggered landslides that crushed homes, power blackouts and forced a nuclear power plant to switch to a backup generator.
Israel is closing down its embassy in Paraguay. That's after Paraguay reversed itself and moved its embassy back to Tel Aviv after bringing it to Jerusalem. The county's new president reversed course after meeting with Palestinian representatives.
Israel is closing down its embassy in Paraguay. That's after Paraguay reversed itself and moved its embassy back to Tel Aviv after bringing it to Jerusalem. The county's new president reversed course after meeting with Palestinian representatives.
India's Supreme Court has ruled that homosexuality is no longer a crime in the country. It overruled a 2013 decision that upheld a British colonial law in the country that defined homosexuality as an 'unnatural offense".
Judge Roy Moore is suing the satirist Sacha Baron Cohen over a stunt pulled off in May when Cohen pretending to be an Israeli anti-terrorism expert waved an alleged "pedophile detector" at Moore that beeped.
The suit says Cohen falsely accused Moore of being a sex offender and seeks 95 million dollars in damages from Cohen and the Showtime and CBS networks.
Sexual misconduct allegations were levelled against Judge Moore during a special US Senate election campaign in Alabama and he lost to Democrat Doug Jones by a narrow margin in a solid Republican state.
Moore is suing the women who made those allegations.
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