NEW CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS ACROSS THE USA OVER THE LAST WEEK INCLUDED A NEW MASK-MUZZLE ORDER FROM REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR TATE REEVES IN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI WHERE A CURFEW WAS ALSO IMPOSED FROM MIDNIGHT TO 5 AM IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF JACKSON.......NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO.....JACKSON CLARION-LEDGER CURFEW STORY
IN SOUTH TEXAS A "SHELTER AT HOME" ORDER AND OVERNIGHT CURFEW EXTENDED IN HIDALGO COUNTRY LAST WEEK......BROWNSVILLE HERALD
"I find it illogical. Say we go into a restaurant. We walk in wearing a mask, because, what, COVID is there? Then we sit down and we can take the masks off because, what, the COVID is gone?"
Protester Nathalie Warren speaking in Montreal, Canada yesterday as thousands marched against the mask-muzzle orders of the Quebec provincial government......CBC NEWS
ILLINOIS DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER ANNOUNCED A NEW POLICY FRIDAY THAT WOULD SLAP FINES ON BUSINESSES AND SCHOOLS WHERE MASK- MUZZLE ORDERS ARE NOT OBEYED. THOSE FINES COULD BE AS HIGH AS 25-HUNDRED DOLLARS.......ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Its Election Day in Belarus a country with Poland, Russia and Ukraine among its neighbors. The authoritarian ruler President Alexander Lukashenko facing a robust challenge from opponents as he seeks re-election.
This year two potential opposition candidates arrested and a third fleeing the country for his safety. But the wife of one of those arrested, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has emerged as Lukashenko's leading opponent.
Her campaign manager Maria Moroz was detained yesterday and is expected to be held in custody until Monday. Today journalists for a Russian television channel detained.....TASS STORY
Voter turnout reported at 73.4 percent as of 4 pm (1600) local time......TASS...later reported at 79 percent two hours ahead of the polls closing (1800), the central square in the capital city of Minsk cordoned off by police....TASS...the NetBlocks online monitoring group reports "significant" disruption of the internet in the country today.....BBC NEWS
Tonight Belarus State TV reporting an exit poll showing a victory for Lukashenko with 79.4 percent of the vote.....BBC NEWS Riot police moving to clear demonstrators from the center of Minsk with flash bangs. Injuries reported.....TASS.......PROTEST VIDEO MINSK, BELARUS......LATER BBC NEWS
AS AN INTERNATIONAL VIDEO CONFERENCE ON AID TO LEBANON GOT UNDERWAY TODAY LED BY FRANCE'S PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON, THE TOLL OF CASUALTIES IS BEING COUNTED FROM YESTERDAY'S RIOTING THAT FOLLOWED LAST WEEK'S EXPLOSION DISASTER IN BEIRUT HARBOR......BBC NEWS
AL JAZEERA IN QATAR REPORTING NOW THAT 728 PEOPLE WERE HURT YESTERDAY.....TASS. A MEMBER OF LEBANESE LAW ENFORCEMENT KILLED WHEN HE FELL DOWN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT AFTER BEING CHASED BY PROTESTERS.
POLICE AND SOLDIERS ABLE TO REGAIN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS SEIZED BY PROTESTERS YESTERDAY.....TASS (EARLIER CASUALTY FIGURES IN REPORT)
ONE ASPECT OF THE PROTEST IN BEIRUT THIS WEEKEND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MOCK GALLOWS FEATURING CARDBOARD CUTOUTS OR OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OF LEBANESE LEADERS HANGING IN NOOSES INCLUDING THE HEZBOLLAH LEADER HASSAN NASRALLAH......
(WARNING: VIDEO MAY BE OFFENSIVE AND OR DISTURBING)
RENEWED CLASHES BETWEEN PROTESTERS AND POLICE BEGAN IN THE EARLY EVENING TODAY IN BEIRUT WITH AN ATMOSPHERE LIKE THE RECENT PORTLAND, OREGON PROTESTS. FIRES WERE LIT IN THE STREETS AND FIRECRACKERS THROWN AT GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS. TEAR GAS IS BEING USED AGAINST THE PROTESTERS.....LIVE VIDEO FEED BEIRUT
EIGHT KILLED INCLUDING SIX FRENCH TOURISTS IN AN ATTACK IN THE AFRICAN NATION OF NIGER. THE ATTACKERS ARMED MEN RIDING ON MOTORCYCLES (BFM-TV FRANCE GOOGLE TRANSLATION).....JIHADIST MILITANT GROUPS LIKE BOKO HARAM ARE ACTIVE IN THE COUNTRY.........REUTERS
Israeli politics with his corruption trial set to begin in earnest five months down the road Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is maneuvering to create an election scenario in the coming months. The prospect of a fourth Israeli election in less than two years is causing religious parties that are Netanyahu's normal allies and part of his current government to rise in opposition.......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar arriving in Taiwan today. He will spend three days there in what is the highest level visit by an American official to the country in 40 years. The visit angering the Chinese government.......AL JAZEERA QATAR REPORT WITH VIDEO EMBEDDED
Afghanistan will release 400 "hard core" Taliban prisoners ahead of peace talks.....THE HILL
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that US troops will total fewer than five thousand in Afghanistan by the end of November. In spite of a US deal with the Taliban attacks continue in the country against the Afghan government. A Pentagon report also says that the Taliban remain connected with Al-Qaeda......CNN
Spain's former king Juan Carlos is said to have traveled to the United Arab Emirates after his announcement that he was leaving Spain. Juan Carlos leaving amidst a corruption investigation by Spanish authorities......BBC NEWS
CORONAVIRUS CASES IN THE USA REPORTED SUNDAY WITH SOME 47,849 NEW CASES ACCORDING TO WORLDOMETERS......
Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine testing negative for the coronavirus after he tested positive on Friday. DeWine first tested as part of the routine for those set to meet President Trump.....THE HILL
In other news.......
The strongest earthquake in more than 100 years jolting the Carolinas and Virginia today. The magnitude 5.1 quake struck at 8:07 am Eastern US time centered near Sparta, North Carolina...WEATHER CHANNEL CANADA
Republican US Congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina calling on Liberty University President and Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. to step down. The Conservative-Christian university annnouncing an "indefinite leave of absence" for Falwell following online publication (by Falwell) of a photo showing him holding his arm around a woman with both of their pants unzipped.
Meadows is a Liberty University graduate who once taught there and now serves on an advisory board........FOX NEWS
A big drop in profits for the Saudi oil giant Aramco. Net income cut in half for the first half of 2020 to 23.2 billion dollars.....CNBC
And that's the way it really is Sunday August 9th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of Covid-19.
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