(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH MONDAY EVENING)
US military helicopters launched an air strike against a Syrian army checkpoint in the northeastern part of Syria today. Two Syrian soldiers killed according to one report. The attack against the checkpoint followed refusal by the Syrian soldiers to allow a US military convoy through....ARAB NEWS....The government's Syrian Arab News Agency says that one soldier was killed and two wounded in the attack.......SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY.....The Russian mission in Syria says that US helicopters staged the attack on the Syrian checkpoint.....TASS
A RETIRED CIA OFFICER CHARGED TODAY WITH SELLING US SECRETS TO CHINA.....NBC NEWS
A protest in Madrid Sunday against the mask-muzzle order and other orders associated with COVID-19 in Spain. Some of the latest restrictions announced by the country's government include a ban on smoking in public.......BBC STORY WITH VIDEO EMBEDDED
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delaying the country's general election due to a handful of coronavirus cases. The September 17th vote pushed back to October 17th.......ABC AUSTRALIA
PROTESTS CONTINUING WITH STRIKES ACROSS THE NATION OF BELARUS TODAY. PROTESTERS SEEKING TO OUST AUTHORITARIAN RULER ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO.......BBC NEWS.....LUKASHENKO HECKLED MONDAY DURING AN APPEARANCE BEFORE FACTORY WORKERS.......FOX NEWS
Police in Portland,Oregon investigating last night's incident where the driver of a pickup truck was beaten by protesters after an earlier confrontation........OREGONLIVE
In Afghanistan the Afghan government stopping its release of Taliban prisoners stalling the peace negotiations spearheaded by the United States set to take place this Thursday. 320 prisoners remain to be released. Australia and France had expressed opposition to the release of six or seven of those prisoners.........DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS STORY
Some one million homes expected to lose power during the late afternoon and evening hours in California today due to high demand for electricity. Lower temperatures and customer conservation cited as preventing the rolling blackouts from being more extensive........ABC NEWS
CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY ACCORDING TO WORLDOMETERS SHOWING 40,612 NEW CASES WITH 589 MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-19.
The coronavirus story around the world today as interpreted by BBC News........BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 8/17/2020
And that's the way it really is Monday August 17th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
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