NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 6/17/2020

(VERY LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE TONIGHT)

A now former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe charged with murder in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks last Friday night.    Ten other charges also filed against him.

Another officer will face other charges and will testify in the case against Rolfe.

WORD FROM ATLANTA TONIGHT IS THAT POLICE OFFICERS ARE NOT RESPONDING TO 911 CALLS IN PARTS OF THE CITY AND THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF OFFICERS HAVE CALLED OUT SICK ON THE LATE SHIFT.......CNN REPORT

A 33-year old woman arrested on federal arson charges for torching two police cars in Philadelphia during the George Floyd protests.    Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal tracked down by the FBI using aerial drone footage and online tracking based on a shirt she wore.    Federal prosecutors want to keep Blumenthal jailed through her trial......PHILLY VOICE STORY

Russia tracking a US destroyer in the Black Sea near southern Russia....TASS STORY....Russia also reporting its radars tracking US B-52 bomber flights over the Pacific Ocean.....TASS STORY

US SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO MEETING THE TOP FOREIGN AFFAIRS OFFICIAL OF CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY IN HAWAII TODAY........THE NATIONAL UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

India says that China was "trying to unilaterally change the status quo" in the fighting that took place yesterday on the "Line of Control" between India's Kashmir territory and China.

China is claiming sovereignty over the entire Galwan Valley in the Kashmir region in its statement on the fighting.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying his country will give a reply that is "befitting".

At least 20 Indian soldiers killed with Indian media saying there were 43 Chinese casualties.    The fighting in a mountainous region is said to have occurred with rocks and clubs with no firearms used.......BBC NEWS.........NDTV INDIA LIVE NEWS IN ENGLISH.......THE WIRE INDIA

Turkey is on the offensive against Kurdish PKK forces with air strikes and now a special forces attack in northern Iraq.....THE NATIONAL UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Mainstream media abuzz about a "right-wing" group called "Boogaloo" in some recent attacks on police in the US......BUSINESS INSIDER

BBC News following the coronavirus story around the world from its perspective on a daily blog....BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 6/17/2020

That's the way it really is Wednesday June 17th, 2020, another day in the Dictatorship of Covid-19.