(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY WITH SERVICE SUSPENDED AT 915 PM EASTERN US TIME)
A US intelligence report on the October 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey coming out in a declassified version tomorrow.
President Joe Biden says he has read the report and will speak to Saudi King Salman about it.
News leaking out is that the report points to Saudi Arabia's de-facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman approving the murder and likely ordering it....JERUSALEM POST
Ghislaine Maxwell, former associate of convicted child sex offender and accused child sex trafficker the late Jeffrey Epstein, making a third bid for bail. Her lawyers filing in federal court saying among other things that Maxwell will renounce her British and French citizenships if she is freed on bail pending her trial set for later this year...ASSOCIATED PRESS-TV ONE NEW ZEALAND
An effort underway in South Dakota's legislature to remove Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office. Ravnsborg faces three charges after a pedestrian was struck and killed last September. Ravnsborg has rejected calls for his resignation.
Yesterday Governor Kristi Noem released video of Ravnsborg's questioning by law enforcement following the accident. They told Ravnsborg the victim's eyeglasses were found in his vehicle and his face was in its windshield...BBC NEWS
OPPOSITION SOURCES IN SYRIA SAY THAT RUSSIAN WARPLANES HAVE LAUNCHED STRIKES AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE IN THE EASTERN DESERT. IS HAS BEEN FIGHTING SYRIAN GOVERNMENT FORCES IN THE AREA.....BBC NEWS
RUSSIAN FORCES IN NORTHWESTERN SYRIA'S IDLIB EVACUATING A CHECKPOINT AFTER JIHADIST FORCES LAUNCHED ATTACKS. THE CHECKPOINT ONE OF THREE SET UP TO ALLOW CIVILIANS TO MOVE FROM JIHADIST AREAS INTO GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED PARTS OF SYRIA...TASS
THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION FIGURE ALEXEI NAVALNY LOSING HIS "PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE" STATUS FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. AMNESTY TAKING NOTE OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT MR. NAVALNY'S PAST COMMENTS THAT ARE CONSIDERED 'HATE SPEECH'...BBC NEWS
Politics in a country sandwiched between India and China in disarray. The Supreme Court in Nepal struck down Prime Minister K.P. Oli's dissolution of parliament ordered lawmakers back to work. The Communist Party of Nepal, the government party, is split into two factions. There is uncertainty as to the country's political future...THE WIRE INDIA
President Joe Biden meeting by video with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A close relationship between the US and Canada stressed in statements following the meeting....TASS
THE CORONAVIRUS STATS VIA WORLDOMETERS FOR TODAY SHOWING 75,299 NEW POSITIVE TESTS IN THE US AND 437,902 WORLDWIDE.
THOSE NUMBERS HIGHER THAN LAST WEDNESDAY'S WHEN THEY WERE 71,640 IN THE UNITED STATES AND 392,393 WORLDWIDE.
And that's the way it really is Wednesday February 24th, 2021, Day 346 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 346 of America and the World held hostage.
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