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"We're in a county that's not going to prosecute this criminal behavior"
That's part of the statement today from Oregon State Police spokesman Captain Timothy Fox.
Oregon State Police pulling out of the federal courthouse in Portland where they assisted federal law enforcement and Portland police in dealing with nightly demonstrations there.
Yesterday Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said many of the charges against demonstrators arrested in the last two plus months will not be pursued by his office.
OREGONLIVE
France's President Emmanuel Macron ordering French naval forces to the eastern Mediterranean in response to growing tensions between Greece and Turkey with Turkey pressing its right to explore for oil and natural gas in disputed waters.......FOX NEWS
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that France "wants to restore colonial order" with its move also citing Macron's visit to Lebanon following the recent Beirut explosion disaster. Lebanon a former French colonial territory once ruled by Turkey. (BFM-TV FRANCE GOOGLE TRANSLATION)
Pro-government media in Turkey claiming that France "seeks war" and that Turkey wants "dialogue"....DAILY SABAH-TURKEY
A relationship in the shadows brought out into the open today with Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreeing to establish full diplomatic relations. The deal brokered by President Trump being hailed as a "peace agreement" between the two nations........BBC NEWS......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Israel, the UAE and the US already sharing an anti-Iran position along with being allied in opposition to the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.
"Our future is in Judea and Samaria and in the courageous decisions our leaders must take and not in agreements that are not worth the paper they are written on."
The reaction to the Israel-UAE agreement from Shai Alon the mayor of the Beit El community in the "West Bank".
Israel backing away from plans to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, commonly called the "West Bank", under the agreement.....YNET NEWS
Palestinian officials say the Israel-UAE deal is a betrayal of the Palestinian cause......TASS
Israel suspending fuel shipments to Gaza in a bid to stop incendiary balloon launches into southern Israel.........YNET NEWS..... Israel also launched attacks into Gaza today.......TASS
Israeli politics and Avigdor Lieberman of the Israel Beytenu (Israel Our Home) Party says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheming to create a fourth election in less than two years to preempt his trial on corruption charges that will begin in earnest next January.....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
IN IRAQ THREE ROCKETS LANDING IN THE BALAD AIR BASE 50 MILES NORTH OF BAGHDAD. THE BASE HOUSES SOME OF THE US TROOPS IN IRAQ. NO CASUALTIES REPORTED.....REUTERS
A RUSSIAN MIG-31 FIGHTER INTERCEPTING A US NAVY POSEIDON SPY PLANE IN THE BARENTS SEA NEAR THE BORDER BETWEEN RUSSIA AND NORWAY TODAY.......TASS
The protests continued today in Belarus in opposition to the crackdown on protesters that has seen at least 67-hundred arrested since the claim that authoritarian ruler President Alexander Lukashenko won a landslide victory in last Sunday's presidential election.......BBC NEWS
THE CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS IN THE USA FROM WORLDOMETERS SHOWING 54,358 NEW CASES TODAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY WITH 1,284 MORE DEATHS BEING ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-19.
THE LEADING STATE IN THE NEW NUMBERS IS CALIFORNIA WITH 7,836 FOLLOWED BY TEXAS WITH 7,236 AND FLORIDA 6,236.
AMONG THE OTHER STATES NORTH CAROLINA WITH 2,657, GEORGIA WITH 2,515 AND TENNESSEE WITH 2,118. ALSO ILLINOIS WITH 1,843, INDIANA WITH 1,043 AND HAWAII WITH 354.
A Miami testing lab hoarded results of Covid-19 tests only releasing them to the state this week skewing the reporting of new cases in Florida......LOCAL 10 MIAMI NEWS REPORT
The BBC News coronavirus blog today reporting from around the world....BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 8/13/2020
The coronavirus blog from Australia and New Zealand today from ABC Australia.........ABC AUSTRALIA CORONAVIRUS LIVE BLOG 8/13/2020
That's the way it really is Thursday August 14th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
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