NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 4/26-SATURDAY 4/27/2019 NEWSDUMP EDITION
(WORK IN PROGRESS, MORE ADDITIONS, EDITING, UPDATES THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING)
15 bodies found after Sri Lankan police engaged in a gun battle in the eastern part of the country with Islamic State terrorist suspects. This is the latest in a series of raids being conducted following the terrorist attacks Easter Sunday on churches and hotels in the country that killed 253.
Media reports say there was an explosion at the suspected hideout before the gunfire began.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka cancelling all Masses this weekend citing a risk of further attacks.
A Russian woman accused of being a spy who targeted the National Rifle Association was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday.
Marina Butina pled guilty to a federal conspiracy charge. She will get credit for time served and after serving the remainder of her sentence she will be deported from the US.
Butina was arrested July 15th last year right before the Helsinki meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian view of the story from the news agency Tass…..LINK
Some French reporters in trouble for "compromising national secrets". That's because they revealed information on French weapons being used in the Saudi-led war against Shia Muslim Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The French domestic intelligence agency (DGSI) has summoned three reporters who leaked a classified report about French weapons use in Yemen.
More on this story from Reporters Without Borders.......HERE
15 bodies found after Sri Lankan police engaged in a gun battle in the eastern part of the country with Islamic State terrorist suspects. This is the latest in a series of raids being conducted following the terrorist attacks Easter Sunday on churches and hotels in the country that killed 253.
Media reports say there was an explosion at the suspected hideout before the gunfire began.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka cancelling all Masses this weekend citing a risk of further attacks.
A Russian woman accused of being a spy who targeted the National Rifle Association was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday.
Marina Butina pled guilty to a federal conspiracy charge. She will get credit for time served and after serving the remainder of her sentence she will be deported from the US.
Butina was arrested July 15th last year right before the Helsinki meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian view of the story from the news agency Tass…..LINK
Some French reporters in trouble for "compromising national secrets". That's because they revealed information on French weapons being used in the Saudi-led war against Shia Muslim Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The French domestic intelligence agency (DGSI) has summoned three reporters who leaked a classified report about French weapons use in Yemen.
More on this story from Reporters Without Borders.......HERE
Week 24 of the Yellow Vests protests in France Saturday following President Emmanuel Macron's Thursday announcement of measures seen as a response to the Yellow Vests.
Macron announced 5.6 billion dollars of income tax cuts and the indexing of pensions to inflation.
But Yellow Vests figures telling French media they are not impressed by Macron's moves.
A poll for BFM-TV in France indicated that 65 percent did not find his message convincing and that only 37 percent found his proposals "credible".
A poll for BFM-TV in France indicated that 65 percent did not find his message convincing and that only 37 percent found his proposals "credible".
A call for an "international protest" in Strasbourg, France Saturday. Strasbourg is one of the places where the European Parliament meets.
The Yellow Vests story in depth at the Breaking News link for this blog.....BREAKING WEEK 24 YELLOW VESTS
Twitter suspending the campaign account of Carl Benjamin, UKIP candidate for European Parliament.
Benjamin has a massive Internet following and is also known as "Sargon of Akkad".
UKIP calls it "election interference".
More on Tommy Robinson's move to run in the European Parliament elections in the UK next month.
Robinson running as an independent for one of eight seats from North West England in the election set for May 23rd.
Among those on hand to support him at a barbecue in Manchester Thursday night was For Britain Movement leader Anne Marie Waters. Her political party is not running any candidates in the elections but did contest a parliamentary by-election in Wales earlier this month winning one percent of the vote there.
Robinson said this among other things in his candidacy announcement:
"I'm with the people-the armed forces; the families who have suffered from Muslim gang rapes; the working class people who have been left behind economically. People who have been mocked by the elites, who were told they just don't count"
More election news from Europe with the Berlin branch of the anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany using a 19th century painting "The Slave Market" to make its case as the AfD contests the European Parliament elections next month in Germany.
Bearded men in turbans are shown in the picture looking at naked slave women.
Its warns "Europeans" to vote AfD 'so Europe does not become Eurabia'.
The Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts, which owns the painting, is condemning its use by the AfD.
In Syria, an attack on a Russian airbase Friday by jihadists firing Grad rockets. Defense systems intercepted most of the rockets. Russian Aerospace Forces responded with air attacks on jihadist positions in Hama and Idlib provinces.
More on this story with some embedded video from the "Soutfront" website...LINK
More on this story with some embedded video from the "Soutfront" website...LINK
Turkey's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday his country is fully committed to buying Russia's advanced S-400 air defense system and is still talking with Washington about a Patriot missile system purchase.
The US has warned Turkey it will not get the F-35 fighter delivered if it continues with the S-400 system purchase.
A sweeping ruling Friday from the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas on abortion.
In an apparent effort to preempt any Pro-Life legislation at state or federal levels the court ruled that the Kansas Constitution endorses abortion.
"They have to get the shots, the vaccinations are so important"
The message from President Trump on the White House lawn Friday speaking about measles vaccinations which some parents object to on various grounds including religious ones.
You can see the video here.....LINK
Speaking at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting Friday, President Trump said the United States is withdrawing from the International Arms Trade Treaty that former President Barack Obama signed in 2013.
The President said he will ask the Senate not to ratify the treaty.
You can see the video here.....LINK
Speaking at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting Friday, President Trump said the United States is withdrawing from the International Arms Trade Treaty that former President Barack Obama signed in 2013.
The President said he will ask the Senate not to ratify the treaty.
The leaders of some three dozen nations in Beijing for China's forum on its "Belt and Road" initiative to fund and build infrastructure projects around the world.
Leaders of neighboring countries like Vladimir Putin of Russia and Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar in attendance as well as leaders from far away nations like Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy.
The United States expressing its anxieties about China's plans but Conte saying Italy is looking out for any predatory actions by China even as it welcomes China's spending money in Italy.
Italy signed a memorandum of understanding with China about its "Belt and Road" initiative during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this year.
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