Sunday, August 16, 2020

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 8/16/2020

 Police making arrests this weekend in Costa Mesa, California.    The crime not covering your face with a muzzle......FACEBOOK VIDEO 




Warren County, Tennessee Executive Jimmy Haley issuing a muzzle-face covering order last Thursday joining other counties in the region southeast of Nashville with such orders.....MANCHESTER TIMES-TENNESSEE


Italy ordering the shutting down of discos tonight and also ordering people to muzzle themselves in public at night ("wear masks") amid fears over rising numbers of coronavirus cases.    The 6 pm to 6 am order taking effect tomorrow......TIMES OF MALTA


Turkey drew condemnation from the European Union today with the Turks decision to keep operating an energy exploration ship in disputed Mediterranean waters until the middle of next month......REUTERS



President Trump says the US will "snapback" on Iran sanctions this coming week making the claim it is still part of the JCPOA nuclear agreement even though he pulled the US out of the agreement.   The move to implement new sanctions follows failure at the UN Security Council Friday to extend an arms embargo on Iran.......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




A ROCKET LANDING INSIDE BAGHDAD'S GREEN ZONE WHERE THE US EMBASSY IS LOCATED TONIGHT.   NO CASUALTIES REPORTED........REUTERS



A leading conservative politician in Israel, Ayelet Shaked of the Yamina Party, says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave up Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria ("West Bank") in exchange for the normalization of relations with the United Arab Emirates..........ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



ISRAEL CLOSING DOWN AN OFFSHORE FISHING ZONE AND LAUNCHING AIR STRIKES INTO GAZA THIS WEEKEND IN RESPONSE TO CONTINUING LAUNCHES OF ROCKETS AND INCENDIARY BALLOONS INTO SOUTHERN ISRAEL......YNET NEWS


The Russian President Vladimir Putin pledging support to the authoritarian ruler of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, following days of protests in the country after last Sunday's disputed presidential election.



Thousands protesting Saturday outside the state television building calling for full coverage of opposition protests.  The country of Belarus in the middle of increasing tensions between NATO aligned countries like Lithuania and Poland and Russia......BBC NEWS



"The NATO leadership is calling on us to hold a new election.    If we yield to their wishes we will die as a state"



The words of Alexander Lukashenko as he spoke to a pro-government rally today.......TASS STORY....Lukashenko says that NATO forces are building up on country's western border....DEUTSCHE WELLE    The opposition also holding a rally today said to have drawn a massive crowd..........BBC NEWS


     

        "He was not just my brother, he was my best friend"




Part of President Trump's statement on the death of his younger brother Robert Trump.    He died Saturday with the President visiting him Friday in a New York hospital.



PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FULL STATEMENT   




A  TERRORIST ATTACK IN SOMALIA TODAY WITH AN UPSCALE HOTEL IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF MOGADISHU TARGETED.     AN EXPLOSION FOLLOWED BY GUNFIRE AT THE ELITE HOTEL.  AT LEAST 28 WOUNDED........THE NATIONAL-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES....LATER REPORTS ARE THAT AT LEAST FIVE WERE KILLED IN THE ATTACK.....FRANCE 24....ELITE FORCES LAID SIEGE TO THE AL-SHABAB TERRORISTS INSIDE THE BUILDING WITH THE LATER REPORTING THAT AT LEAST 10 ARE DEAD NOT INCLUDING THE ATTACKERS......BBC NEWS



Rioting in the Netherlands in reaction to a government ban on opening fire hydrants to cool off from record hot weather.......THE INDEPENDENT UK




CORONAVIRUS IN THE USA TODAY ACCORDING TO WORLDOMETERS SOME 36,843 NEW CASES REPORTED........




The developer of the Russian coronavirus vaccine (Sputnik V) says that the third stage trials set to be launched in 7-10 days can be called a "mass vaccination" because it will involve tens of thousands of people receiving the vaccine......TASS





The coronavirus story in Australia and other nations today as reported by ABC Australia......ABC AUSTRALIA CORONAVIRUS LIVE BLOG 8/16/2020



Worldwide coronavirus news today as reported by BBC News via its daily blog........BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 8/16/2020




And that's the way it really is Sunday August 16th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.

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