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With some modifications a nationwide lockdown coming into force this afternoon in Israel to prevent coronavirus spread with thousands of soldiers and police deployed to enforce it.......YNET NEWS-ASSOCIATED PRESS......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying he may have to tighten them.......YNET NEWS
In Spain new COVID-19 restrictions will come into force in the Madrid area on Monday.....
BREAKING NEWS: US SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG IS DEAD AT THE AGE OF 87. SHE WAS SUFFERING FROM PANCREATIC CANCER.
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL SAYING A VOTE ON THE SUCCESSOR TO THE LIBERAL JUSTICE WILL OCCUR BEFORE THE ELECTION WITH DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOE BIDEN SAYING THE VOTE SHOULD COME AFTER THE ELECTION.
The US ordering a ban on the Chinese owned app WeChat as of Sunday and planning a ban on Chinese owned TikTok app for November 12th. Downloading of both apps in the US to be banned as of Sunday....YNET NEWS REUTERS.......BBC NEWS
CHINA IS CONDUCTING MILITARY EXERCISES NEAR THE TAIWAN STRAIT. THE EXERCISES DESIGNED TO SEND A MESSAGE AS A US STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL VISITS TAIWAN.......BBC NEWS
The US is pressuring Russia to make concessions on a nuclear weapons treaty ahead of the November election.......CNN
Russia says its tracked 54 spy planes and drones near its borders this week.......TASS
The US imposing sanctions on two Lebanese companies and a Lebanese national. They are said to have ties to the Iranian backed Hezbollah movement that has been defined as a terrorist organization by the US government. Hezbollah is a key player in the Lebanese government......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
South Africa's foreign minister describing the notion of an Iranian plot to kill the US ambassador to her country as "bizzare". Naledi Pandor also calling Iran as a "very good friend of South Africa".....PRESS TV
A Russian national entered the perimeter of the US ambassador's residence in Moscow today. The intruder turned over to Russian authorities. The ambasador not home no injuries reported.....TASS.....Russia describing the intruder as a drunk driver.
WITH JUST WEEKS TO GO BEFORE THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION A SEXUAL ASSAULT CLAIM INVOLVING PRESIDENT TRUMP. AMY DORRIS WENT TO THE MEDIA WITH HER CLAIM LAST YEAR BUT DID NOT WANT IT PUBLICIZED. NOW THE SITUATION HAS CHANGED. MR. TRUMP DENYING THE ALLEGATION.
The interim president in Bolivia, Jeanine Anez, pulling out of next month's rerun of the disputed 2019 presidential election. Current polling shows the left-wing candidate from the party of former President Evo Morales leading.......METRO US
A star of the Netflix documentary series "Cheer" arrested accused of enticing an underage boy to produce sexually explicit images of himself. Jeremiah "Jerry" Harris will be in court Monday with a judge to determine whether he will be held in custody or released on bail......CNN
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, jailed following his rape and sexual assault conviction in New York and facing other charges in California, losing his title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire.....BBC NEWS
The coronavirus stats from Worldometers showing 51,345 new cases in the US today.....California the leading state at 4,408. Among the other states Wisconsin 2,533, Tennessee 2,357 and Illinois 2,223.
Around the world 315,130 new cases.....India the leading nation at 92,789. Among the other nations France with 13,215, the UK with 4,322 and Canada with 1,044.
The coronavirus story around the world as interpreted by BBC News on its daily blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 9/18/2020
That's the way it really is Friday September 18th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
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