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ELECTION 2024 SPECIAL REPORT
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
Intense Israeli airstrikes late tonight in the southern Beirut suburbs near the airport. Israel ordering evacuations of residents in various neighborhoods before the attacks...LBCI LEBANON
HURRICANE RAFAEL MAKING LANDFALL IN WESTERN CUBA THIS AFTERNOON WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 115 MILES PER HOUR.
THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER WARNING OF HEAVY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS IN WESTERN CUBA.
THE LATE SEASON STORM EXPECTED TO ENTER THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO MOVE SLOWLY AND WEAKEN IN STRENGTH IN THE DAYS AHEAD...NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER LATEST ADVISORY
BREAKING NEWS:
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismissing Finance Minister Christian Linder of the liberal capitalist Free Democratic Party.
Linder openly advocating for policies contrary to those of both Mr. Scholz's Social Democrats and the Greens the two other parties in the German government.
This marks the end of the three-party coalition government in Germany set up after the 2021 election.
Germany moving towards new elections early next year...Tagesschau Germany (Translation Prompt)
VICE-PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS CALLING PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP TO OFFER CONGRATULATIONS TODAY...(News Agencies)...
IN A PUBLIC STATEMENT OFFERED THIS AFTERNOON HARRIS SAYING 'WE MUST ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THIS ELECTION'.
THE DE-FACTO RULER OF SAUDI ARABIA CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN SPEAKING WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP...OSINTdefender "X"
President-Elect Donald Trump holding a 20-minute conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Discussion said to have included "Israel's security" and the "Iranian threat"...Israel National News
KREMLIN SPOKESMAN DMITRY PESKOV SAYS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS NO PLANS TO CONGRATULATE DONALD TRUMP ON HIS ELECTION VICTORY.
PESKOV NOTING THE UNITED STATES IS UNFRIENDLY TO RUSSIA AND INOVLVED IN THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA...TASS RUSSIA
DUTCH POLITICS THE TWO OF THE FOUR GOVERNMENT PARTIES SEEKING TO SLOW DOWN CLIMATE GOALS.
GEERT WILDER'S PARTY OF FREEDOM AND THE FARMER-CITIZEN PARTY WOULD LIKE THE GOAL OF 55 PERCENT REDUCTION OF CARBON EMISSIONS STRETCHED OUT FROM THE YEAR 2030 TO THE YEAR 2050.
ITS POSSIBLE THAT THEIR VIEWS WILL RUN INTO CONFLICT WITH THOSE OF THE NSC AND VVD LIBERAL PARTIES THAT ALSO FORM THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
The markets surging on the victory of Donald Trump in the US Presidential Election.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1,508.05 points or 3.57 percent.
The NASDAQ up 544.29 points or 2.95 percent.
At 426 pm New York Time the price of oil lower at 71 dollars 85 cents a barrel down 14 cents...Marketwatch
Four wounded in a Hezbollah rocket attack on a farming community in northern Israel...Israel National News
"The election of the president of the United States has nothing to do with Iran, Tehran's public policy is fixed and Washington's public policy is also fixed."
IRANIAN GOVERNMENT SPOKESWOMAN FATEMAH MOHAJERANI REACTING TO THE VICTORY OF DONALD TRUMP.
MR. TRUMP PURSUED TOUGH ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AND TARGETED ASSASSINATIONS INVOLVING IRAN WHEN HE WAS IN OFFICE BEFORE...SHAFAQ NEWS IRAQ
Bodies pulled from a building struck in an Israeli air raid in Lebanon Tuesday night.
At least 30 killed in the attack in the town of Barja...Associated Press USA-Irish Examiner
THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
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ISRAELI KILLED IN HEZBOLLAH ROCKET ATTACK
ISRAELI RAIDS IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA
MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
LBCI LEBANON (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
AL JAZEERA QATAR
TIMES OF ISRAEL
An 18-year old Israeli died in today's rocket attack by Hezbollah on a northern agricultural area...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Israeli army raids launched into Judea and Samaria (The West Bank) with eight reported killed...Tass Russia
In other news...
Many world leaders not going to next week's climate summit in Azerbaijan's capital city of Baku.
Those not attending include Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron and the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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