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A US District Judge has ruled in favor of Florida's lawsuit challenging the Centers for Disease Control coronavirus order preventing cruise ships from sailing...SPUTNIK NEWS RUSSIA
CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU KEEPING THE LID ON THE US BORDER FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER MONTH. A MUTUAL DECISION ANNOUNCED WITH US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN.
TRUDEAU WANTS TO KEEP THE BORDER CLOSED TO:
"non essential travel"
UNTIL 75 PERCENT OF CANADIANS RECEIVE A FIRST DOSE OF CORONAVIRUS VACCINE AND 20 PERCENT RECEIVE A SECOND DOSE....REUTERS
(WARNING: LANGUAGE MAY BE OFFENSIVE)
US LAWMAKERS UNHAPPY WITH THE CONTINUED BORDER CLOSURE ESPECIALLY THOSE REPRESENTING AREAS NEAR THE CANADIAN BORDER.
"There's no other way to say it: another month's delay is bullshit"
UPSTATE NEW YORK DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN BRIAN HIGGINS TWEETING ABOUT THE CONTINUED BORDER RESTRICTIONS...RUSSIA TODAY
In the Canadian province of Ontario known for its strict coronavirus lockdown and crackdowns on those who violate the rules a cabinet shuffle.
It puts a legislator who resigned his post following a Carribean vacation in the midst of COVID-19 restrictions back into the cabinet.
Rod Phillips the former Finance Minister coming back into the cabinet of Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford as Minister of Long-Term Care...CBC NEWS
(Story Updated) Authorities in Moscow tightening coronavirus restrictions in the city...TASS....Russia reporting 17,262 new positive tests for COVID-19 today (Worldometers)...The mayor of Moscow says 89 percent of new coronavirus cases are of the "Delta" variant...BNO NEWSROOM
NEWS UPDATED LATE BREAKING:
THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY GIVING THE THUMBS DOWN TO AN ISRAELI CORONAVIRUS VACCINE SHIPMENT.
THE PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER SAID MANY OF THE VACCINE DOSES WERE NEAR EXPIRATION...HAARETZ ISRAEL
ISRAEL HAD ANNOUNCED IT WAS SENDING AROUND A MILLION DOSES OF CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TO PALESTINIAN AUTHORITIES...TIMES OF ISRAEL
MORE CORONAVIRUS NEWS AT THE END OF THIS SUMMARY......
The Wall Street Journal reporting that the US military is moving troops and weapons out of the Middle East....WALL STREET JOURNAL...AL JAZEERA QATAR
THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVING ANTONIO GUTERRES FOR A SECOND TERM AS SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS. HE WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE SECURITY COUNCIL EARLIER THIS MONTH...REUTERS
Also the General Assembly of the UN approved a resolution regarding Myanmar where the military seized power in a coup earlier this year.
A resolution calling for an end to weapons sales to the country and on the military to respect last November's election results and release political prisoners. 119 nations in favor, 36 opposed, 37 abstaining including China and Russia...FRANCE 24
IRAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TODAY ONLY THOSE CANDIDATES APPROVED BY IRAN'S CLERICAL LEADERS IN THE RACE.
THE POLLS SUGGESTING A LOW TURNOUT IN THE ELECTION UNDER 50 PERCENT. THE ELECTION BEING HELD WITH CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS (10,100 NEW POSITIVE TESTS TODAY VIA WORLDOMETERS)
POLLING DATA ALSO SHOWED A WIDE LEAD FOR EBRAHIM RAISI. RAISI HEADS IRAN'S JUDICIARY AND IS UNDER US SANCTIONS. HE IS DESCRIBED IN MEDIA AS AN 'ULTRA CONSERVATIVE' AND 'HARDLINER'...CNN
NORTH KOREAN RULER KIM JONG-UN SAYS HIS COUNTRY NEEDS TO BE READY FOR DIALOGUE OR CONFRONTATION WITH THE UNITED STATES. KIM SPEAKING AT A MEETING OF NORTH KOREA'S RULING PARTY...TASS
A group of over 30 women filing suit against the "Pornhub" website. They say the site is exploiting them using videos of them without their consent.
They accuse the site's owner of running a "criminal enterprise". "Pornhub" putting out a statement saying the lawsuit's allegations are "utterly absurd, completely reckless and categorically false"...BBC NEWS
Politics in the US and former President Donald Trump endorsing Alaska State Senator Kelly Tshibaka in her bid to unseat incumbent Republican US Senator Lisa Murkowski in next year's primary election.
Trump said in his statement that Murkowski is "bad for Alaska" noting her vote to confirm Joe Biden's choice for Interior Secretary Deb Haaland...NEW YORK POST
A SETBACK FOR THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON WITH THE OPPOSITION LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WINNING A PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION FOR A SEAT IN WALES. THE SEAT HELD BY THE CONSERVATIVES SINCE 1974...SKY NEWS UK
Canada leading a group of nations pushing China on the Uighur Muslim issue before the UN Human Rights Council. The group demanding that China grant access to international investigators to probe "credible reports" of human rights violations in Xinjiang province...CBC NEWS...
China's foreign ministry says that Canada and other Western countries are "attempting to spread disinformation and lies to frame China at the Human Rights Council...CHINA GLOBAL TELEVISION
China's ambassador to France says his country's diplomats are conducting a "justified defense" against pressure from the West.
Lu Shaye telling the French newspaper "L'Opinion" that while the West perceives China's diplomacy as "offensive" and "aggressive" that it is the Western nations that are "on the offensive and aggressive"...PRESS TV IRAN
THREE CHINESE ASTRONAUTS INSIDE CHINA'S ORBITING SPACE STATION. THEY WERE THE FIRST TO BOARD THE NEW TIANGONG SPACE STATION...SPACEFLIGHT NOW
A MAN DESCRIBED AS 'AGGRESSIVE' ARRESTED FOLLOWING AN 'INTERACTION' WITH CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR DEMOCRAT GAVIN NEWSOM IN OAKLAND TODAY.
ITS REPORTED THAT 54-YEAR OLD SERGE EMANUEL BENOIT CHAUMETTE JR. MAY HAVE THROWN A WATER BOTTLE AT NEWSOM. A WOMAN SAYING SHE'S HIS SISTER SAYS THAT THE SUSPECT IS HOMELESS AND HAS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
BAIL FOR CHAUMETTE SET AT 35-THOUSAND DOLLARS AND A HEARING SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY...THE HILL
A final "Rush Limbaugh Show" today some four months after his passing. Ken Matthews of WHP Radio here in Central Pennsylvania closing out with the final look back at Rush's best moments through the decades.
New hosts Buck Sexton and Clay Travis take over the 12 Noon to 3 PM Eastern US time slot Monday...FOX NEWS
Vaccination stats for the US today "partially vaccinated at 53.03 percent and 'fully vaccinated" at 44.66 percent. It is estimated at the present rate of vaccination that it will take until August 13th for 60 percent of the population to be "fully vaccinated"....BNO NEWSROOM
Hundreds of Indonesian doctors and healthcare workers contracting COVID-19 after vaccination. Dozens of them are hospitalized. They were given doses of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine....CNN
Some COVID-19 research from Israel says that hospitalized patients are more likely to die if they are Vitamin D deficient. The research at an Israeli hospital showing 26 percent of Vitamin D deficient patients dying while only three percent of other patients died...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Coronavirus stats today via Worldometers for the US 13,389 new positive tests and around the world 400,897. That compares to 16,130 and 411,387 a week ago today.
Worldometers coronavirus stats from nations around the world today new positive tests India 60,798. 84,695 last Friday.
Brazil 98,135, Colombia 28,790, Indonesia 12,990, South Africa 10,510, the UK 10,476.
In Japan today 1,557 compared to 2,046 a week ago.
In Canada 492 compared to 1,441 last Friday.
That's the way it really is Friday June 18th, 2021, Day 459 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 459 of America and the World held hostage.
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