(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE FRIDAY INTO EARLY SATURDAY)
Orthodox Jewish religious schools (yeshivas) carry on in spite of New York state orders to shut down in coronavirus "hot spots"......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
In Israel the new less strict coronavirus lockdown rules laid out. After a three week total lockdown the new almost total lockdown rules take effect Sunday and will be re-evaluated at the end of the month.....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Today police in Thailand trying to put down anti-monarchist protesters with stinging liquid fired from water cannons......SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
TURKEY FIRING A MISSILE TODAY ALONG ITS NORTHERN COAST IN WHAT IS BELIEVED TO BE A TEST OF THE RUSSIAN S-400 ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE SYSTEM IT HAS OBTAINED OVER THE OBJECTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND NATO. TURKEY WILL NOT CONFIRM OR DENY THE FIRING WHILE THE US SAYS IT REMAINS OPPOSED TO THE S-400 BECOMING OPERATIONAL........AHVAL TURKISH NEWS
EUROPEAN UNION LEADERS CONDEMNING 'UNILATERAL ACTIONS AND PROVOCATIONS' BY TURKEY IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN FOLLOWING THE TURKISH MOVE TO SEND AN ENERGY EXPLORATION VESSEL BACK INTO DISPUTED WATERS......EURACTIV
In a Paris suburb a decapitation attack on a middle school teacher the attacker shouting "God is Great" in Arabic then shot dead by police.
Four others have been placed in police custody including a minor. The attacker a teenager born in Russia in 2002.
The French President Emmanuel Macron visited the site where the attacker was shot calling the killing of the teacher an "Islamist terrorist attack"....(BFM-TV Google Translation)
France's leading opposition politician Marine Le Pen of the National Rally tweeted that "this level of barbarity is unacceptable" and that "Islamism is waging a war on us".
The Justice Department announcing plans to execute two federal inmates including the first woman to be executed by the federal government in six decades........FOX NEWS
THE FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY INDICTED TODAY ACCUSED OF 'CRIMINAL ASSOCIATION'..........TASS
A FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER OF MEXICO ARRESTED AT THE LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. GENERAL SALVADOR CIENFUEGOS WANTED ON DRUG TRAFFICKING AND MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGES......FOX NEWS
A software billionaire facing charges in a tax fraud investigation. Robert Brockman accused of hiding capital gains income through offshore businesses and secret bank accounts in foreign countries......NEW ZEALAND HERALD-ASSOCIATED PRESS
The US Justice Department announcing charges against a network of people in connection with a computer fraud and money laundering investigation. Foreign national involved including a Russian citizen......TASS
Its Saturday in New Zealand election day with incumbent Labor Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern facing off against her main opponent National Party leader Judith Collins. Ardern has imposed strict lockdown measures on New Zealand over COVID-19 and imposed sweeping gun control on her country following a mass murder attack on two mosques in March of last year.......THE GUARDIAN UK
A federal memo from the Department of Transportation alludes to funding cutoffs to cities deemed "anarchist".......OREGONLIVE-ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRESIDENT TRUMP APPROVING FEDERAL RELIEF FUNDS FOR SIX CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES HOURS AFTER THE PRESIDENT AGREED WITH ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS WHO DECLINED TO APPROVE THE MONEY CITING LACK OF RELEVANT DATA.....ASSOCIATED PRESS-OREGONLIVE
Canada's government is now saying that a 14-day quarantine exemption for the CEO of Costco should not have happened. Craig Jelinek and another Costco executive traveled in Canada back in August in spite of a 14 day mandatory quarantine for people entering Canada from the USA.
Another corporate CEO from the US and two of her associates were also given an exemption to the quarantine on the same day being declared "essential workers" just like the Costco execs.......CBC NEWS
Twitter changing its "hacked materials policy" after the backlash to its shutting down accounts discussing emails related to the family business activities of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden.......ARS TECHNICA
THE UK BREAKING OFF TRADE TALKS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION ON A POST-BREXIT TRADING ARRANGEMENT. THE BRITISH SAYING THERE'S ''NO POINT" IN CONTINUING TALKS BECAUSE OF THE EU'S CURRENT POSITION........BBC NEWS
Coronavirus stats for the US today from Worldometers showing 71,687 new cases led by Texas with 5,791, Illinois 5,103 and Wisconsin 3,861. Some of the other states Indiana 2,283, Ohio 2,140, Kansas 1,805, Nebraska 1,286 and Idaho 1,094.
Worldwide 413,206 new cases of COVID-19 reported led by the United States with India next at 65,126. Other nations include Brazil 30,574, France 25,086, the UK 15,650, Belgium 10,448 and Italy 10,010.
The coronavirus story in the UK and around the world today as reported by BBC News on its daily blog........BBC NEWS
And that's the way it really is Friday October 16th, 2020 Day 215 in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
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