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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
Politics in the USA tonight the Ohio Republican US Senate Primary Bernie Moreno the candidate endorsed by President Trump winning that contest...(News Agencies)
THE US AIR FORCE SAYS THAT IT SUCCESSFULLY TESTED A HYPERSONIC MISSILE ON SUNDAY.
THE B-52 BOMBER INVOLVED IN THE TEST TOOK OFF FROM ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE IN GUAM...TASS RUSSIA
A cruise missile fired from Yemen fell north of the Israeli city of Eilat Sunday night.
The Israel Defense Forces are investigating why the missile was not intercepted.
It is being said that the missile was monitored as it entered Israeli territory from the Red Sea.
There have been reports that the Houthis in Yemen have developed high-speed hypersonic technology to send their missiles towards Israel...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
IN CANADA FOREIGN MINISTER MELANIE JOLY SAYING CANADA WILL NOT SELL ARMS TO ISRAEL.
THE GOVERNMENT WILL FOLLOW THE TEXT OF A NON-BINDING RESOLUTION THAT PASSED THE HOUSE OF COMMONS CALLING FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE AND IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA.
ANOTHER PROVISION CALLED FOR BAN ON SELLING ARMS TO ISRAEL.
THE RESOLUTION INTRODUCED BY THE NEW DEMOCRAT PARTY AND SUPPORTED BY PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU'S LIBERALS AND NEW DEMOCRATS AFTER IT WAS SOFTENED IN TONE.
THE OPPOSITION CONSERVATIVE PARTY VOTED AGAINST THE RESOLUTION...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
On Capitol Hill former top generals saying the Biden Administration's response to the need to evacuate Afghanistan when the Taliban won the war was too little and too late.
General Mark Milley was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and General Frank McKenzie led US Central Command.
By July 9th a force in place of some 2,500 personnel ready to cover the evacuation of US personnel and 130,000 civilians.
But the decision to use the force made in August amidst a much worse situation on the ground...
ONE INDIA
THE US SUPREME COURT GIVING THE GO-AHEAD FOR TEXAS TO ENFORCE A LAW ALLOWING LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ARREST PEOPLE WHO ENTER THE US ILLEGALLY.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SOUGHT TO PREVENT TEXAS FROM ENFORCING THE LAW WITH AN EMERGENCY APPEAL.
JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO HALTED A LOWER COURT RULING IN FAVOR OF THE LAW TO ALLOW THE FULL COURT TO CONSIDER THE MATTER...THE GUARDIAN UK
Two Israeli soldiers wounded in a Hezbollah rocket attack in northern Israel...TIMES OF ISRAEL
THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL JAIR BOLSONARO INDICTED.
BOLSANARO AND A FORMER EMPLOYEE ACCUSED OF TAMPERING WITH COVID-19 VACCINATION CERTIFICATES.
THE ALLEGATION CENTERING ON FALSE ENTRY OF BOLSONARO'S NAME IN THE REGISTRY OF THOSE WHO GOT THE CONTROVERSIAL COVID-19 SHOTS...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 320.33 points or .83 percent.
The NASDAQ rose 63.34 points or .39 percent.
At 505 pm New York Time the price of oil at 83 dollars 20 cents a barrel up 48 cents or .58 percent...
MARKETWATCH
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE BOSS WARNS FRANCE OVER PLANS FOR TROOPS IN UKRAINE
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"The current leadership of the country does not care about the ordinary deaths of French people or about the concerns of the generals"
Russia's CIA chief says that France is preparing to send troops to Ukraine the initial contingent totally 2,000.
SVR Director Sergey Naryshkin is saying that France wants to do in a surreptitious way and that the French military "fears that such a large military unit cannot be transferred and stationed in Ukraine unnoticed"...TASS RUSSIA...
Mr. Naryshkin also warning about the direct consequences of French military deployment in Ukraine:
"Thus it will become a priority legitimate target for attacks by the Russian Armed Forces.
This means he will face the fate of all Frenchmen who have ever come to the territory of the Russian world with a sword"...
RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
"The United States will not let Ukraine fail. This coalition will not let Ukraine fail and the free world will not let Ukraine fail"
THE ADAMANT MESSAGE FROM US DEFENSE SECRETARY LLOYD AUSTIN.
AUSTIN SPEAKING AT THE US MILITARY BASE IN RAMSTEIN, GERMANY MEETING WITH OFFICIALS OF NATIONS PROVIDING MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO UKRAINE...VOICE OF AMERICA
IN A SURE SIGN OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, THE EUROPEAN UNION IS MOVING TOWARDS USING FROZEN RUSSSIAN ASSETS TO FUND THE UKRAINE WAR.
EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JOSEP BORRELL PROPOSING A PLAN THAT WOULD SEE 90 PERCENT OF THOSE ASSETS USED TO COVER WEAPONS COSTS FOR UKRAINE.
THE REMAINING 10 PERCENT WOULD BE USED BY THE EU TO HELP UKRAINE'S DEFENSE INDUSTRY.
FROZEN RUSSIAN ASSETS IN THE EU ESTIMATED AT THREE BILLION EUROS (3.26 BILLION US DOLLARS)...NEWS AGENCIES-TRT WORLD
The Bank of Japan moving interest rates to zero ending eight years of negative interest rates.
This move to raise interest rates signals an end to Japan's cheap money policy.
Its being called a "first, tentative step towards policy normalization"...REUTERS-RADIO NEW ZEALAND
"microphone diplomacy"
China's foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian describing current US foreign policy.
He says the US and other major powers need to start serious talks on arms control and nuclear disarmament...TASS RUSSIA
US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN SPEAKING OF 'IRONCLAD' SECURITY AGREEMENTS WITH THE PHILIPPINES.
AT A PRESS CONFERENCE WITH PHILIPPINE FOREIGN MINISTER ENRIQUE MANALO BLINKEN SAYING WATERWAYS DISPUTED WITH CHINA ARE:
"critical to the Philippines, to its security, to its economy...
critical to the interests of the region, the United States and the world"...
BBC NEWS
Government media in New Zealand stressing plans for a secondary relationship in the Anti-China Australia-United Kingdom-United States military alliance.
This as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits New Zealand laying groundwork for visits by a trade delegation and National Party Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to China later this year.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters of the New Zealand First Party making public comments about New Zealand's defense plans as well.
Peters saying in part:
"He (Wang Yi) did raise AUKUS with me and I pointed out the right of countries to organize their own defense arrangements"...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
NORTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT MEDIA CONTINUING TO REPORT ON RULER KIM JONG-UN'S APPEARANCES AT MILITARY EXERCSES.
THIS TIME KIM REPORTED SUPERVISING DRILLS INVOLVING MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHING SYSTEMS.
THESE APPEARANCES BY THE NORTH KOREAN RULER APPEAR LINKED TO RECENTLY CONCLUDED MILITARY EXERCISES INVOLVING THE US AND SOUTH KOREA...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA
THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
(UPDATED WHEN ABLE)
TWO ISRAELI AGENTS WOUNDED IN ATTACK
MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
TIMES OF ISRAEL
Two Israelis shot and wounded in a terrorist attack in Gush Etzion municipality. The attacker killed...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...The wounded agents of Israel's Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency...(Times Of Israel)
In other news...
Increasing US sanctions pressure shutting down use of the Russian Mir electronic payment cards at most ATM's in Armenia.
As of March 30th the cards will only work at an Armenian bank that is a subsidiary of Russia's VTB bank...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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