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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
Tomorrow Republican candidate for Attorney General Abe Hamadeh gets a one-day trial in Mohave County, Arizona over the extremely close election result that favored Democrat Kris Mayes by 511 votes...(News Agencies)
IN THE NETHERLANDS A PROPOSED LAW WILL GIVE ITS SUPREME COURT AUTHORITY TO BAN A POLITICAL PARTY IF:
"by its objective or activities, the party poses a genuine and serious threat to one or more fundamental principles of the democratic rule of law"...
Sam Bankman-Fried released on 250 million dollars bail.
He will be under house arrest at his parents Palo Alto, California home and wear an ankle bracelet.
Bankman-Fried will be arraigned later on federal fraud charges against him...CNN
AN OFFCIAL WITH GERMANY'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ARRESTED.
HE IS SUSPSECTED OF TREASON FOR PASSING SECRET INFORMATION TO RUSSIA...AFP FRANCE-TIMES OF ISRAEL
In the UK a strike by staff of the "Border Force" at six airports and a seaport tomorrow.
It will be going on every day till the end of the year except next Tuesday.
Travel delays expected with soldiers and civil servants drafted to replace the striking workers...THE NATIONAL-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
FRENCH GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN OLIVIER VERAN ATTACKING THE PLANS OF RAILROAD CONTROLLERS TO STRIKE TOMORROW.
VERAN CALLING ON WORKERS TO GIVE UP THEIR STRIKE AND DEMONIZING THEM FOR CAUSING INCONVENIENCE TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE...(BFM-TV France)
SWEDISH RADIO REPORTING THAT TURKIYE (TURKEY) HAS A NEW LIST OF 42 PEOPLE IT WANTS EXTRADITED.
THE OLD LIST CONTAINED 33 NAMES.
SWEDEN SEEKING FAVOR WITH THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT AS IT SEEKS TO JOIN NATO...TASS RUSSIA
BIG DECLINES ON WALL STREET.
THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE DOWN 348.99 POINTS OR 1.05 PERCENT OF VALUE.
THE NASDAQ DOWN 233.25 POINTS OR 2.18 PERCENT OF ITS VALUE.
THE OIL PRICE THIS EVENING AT 78 DOLLARS AND 46 CENTS A BARREL...MARKETWATCH
In Turkiye (Turkey) the inflation fighting policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan go against the global banking grain.
Erdogan has fired finance ministers and central bank chiefs to enforce a steady policy of interest rate reductions.
Today for a third time this year a major hike in Turkiye's minimum wage.
President Erdogan, who faces re-election next year, says the rise will mean on average 455 dollars a month more money for Turks...
IN SWEDEN TWO INDEPENDENT MUSLIM SCHOOLS ORDERED TO SHUT DOWN.
THE DECISION FROM AN ADMINISTRATIVE COURT IN STOCKHOLM CITING FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS, THE CREDENTIALS OF PRINCIPALS AND THE DANGER OF 'RADICALIZATON' OF STUDENTS...SVT SWEDEN (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
China sending 39 warplanes and three ships close to Taiwan over a 24-hour period ending at 6 am Thursday local time...ASSOCIATED PRESS...
Join Chinese-Russian naval maneuvers underway in the East China Sea north of Taiwan...TASS RUSSIA
(UPDATED) THE UNITED STATES SAYS THAT NORTH KOREA HAS PROVIDED WEAPONS FOR THE WAGNER GROUP, A RUSSIAN MILITARY CONTRACTOR.
NORTH KOREA FLATLY DENYING THAT IT HAS SUPPLIED ARMS TO THE RUSSIAN MILITARY CONTRACTOR...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY-SOUTH KOREA
THE IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS ITS LOSING PATIENCE WITH UKRAINE.
UKRAINE ASSERTS THAT IRAN IS SUPPLYING ARMS TO RUSSIA.
ARMS BEING USED IN RUSSIAN ATTACKS.
UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT REPEATED THE CLAIM IN HIS SPEECH TO THE US CONGRESS LAST NIGHT.
THE IRANIANS SAYING THAT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY SHOULD LEARN FROM THE FATE OF OTHERS WHO WERE ONCE ALLIES OF THE UNITED STATES...
MEANWHILE ISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE CHIEF DAVID BARNEA CLAIMS THAT IRAN INTENDS TO SUPPLY RUSSIA WITH MORE ADVANCED WEAPONS...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking with the incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The two discussing international issues including Ukraine Putin wishing Netanyahu and all Israeli a Happy Hanukkah...TASS RUSSIA
THE SITUATION IN FIJI WHERE THE CURRENT PRIME MINISTER'S PARTY SAYS IT RESPECTS THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION.
IT ALSO SAYS IT DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE VALIDITY OF THE MAJORITY OF THE OPPOSITION PARTIES THAT RESULTED FROM THE ELECTION.
THE FIJI FIRST PARTY SECRETARY GENERAL AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM SAYS THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT IS IN PLACE AND CAN ONLY BE CHANGED ONCE THE VOTE FOR PRIME MINISTER IS HELD IN PARLIAMENT.
THAT IS TO HAPPEN NEXT WEEK.
THIS AFTERNOON THE FIJI POLICE ANNOUNCED THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE MILITARY DUE TO REPORTS OF THREATS AGAINST MINORITY GROUPS.
The US and South Korea planning "realistic" training scenarios for the new year.
Some 20 combined training programs envisioned in the first half of next year including a major amphibious exercise.
The new training scenarios needed to deal with "advancing North Korean nuclear and missile threats"...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA
THE US IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON IRAN'S TOP PROSECUTOR AND MILITARY OFFICERS.
THEY WERE CITED FOR CRACKDOWNS ON PROTESTERS IN THE COUNTRY IN RECENT MONTHS...ASSOCIATED PRESS-FOX NEWS
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
DONETSK LEADER HURT IN UKRAINIAN SHELLING
The Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic Vitaly Khotsenko wounded during Ukrainian shelling of a hotel he was in. His injuries minor...TASS RUSSIA...
Also slightly wounded in that shelling attack the former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and former head of Russia's space agency Dmitry Rogozin...BBC NEWS
In other news...
In Spain a new law allowing those 16 and older to change their legally registered gender without consulting a doctor or parental consent.
Also in the law minors as young as 12 and 13 can legally change gender with a judge's permission...FOX NEWS...
(Update) A lengthy debate in Scotland's parliament on legislation that would lower the age for "gender change" to 16 from 18.
Numerous amendments and delaying tactics with a final vote of 86 to 39 in favor...BBC NEWS
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