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LATE BREAKING NEWS:
ISRAELI AIR STRIKE IN SYRIA
Syria says it shot down most of the Israeli missiles fired at targets in the Damascus area tonight.
The attack launched from aircraft over Tiberias on the west shore of the Sea of Galilee at 12:41 am local time (5:41 pm Eastern US time).
Syria says it's assessing the results of the attack...SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...TASS RUSSIA
EMBATTLED GEORGIA GOP GOVERNOR SIGNS TAX CUT BILL
Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp signing a one billion dollar tax cut bill just weeks before the primary election where he's being challenged by former US Senator David Perdue backed by President Trump.
Kemp modifying the income tax in Georgia to make it flat.
Kemp signed the bill in Senator Perdue's home county...WSB-TV ATLANTA
A big down day on Wall Street.
The NASDAQ dropping 514.11 points or 3.95 percent of its value.
The Down Jones Industrial Average off 809.28 points or 2.38 percent in value...
MARKETWATCH...
Hopes are being pinned on tech business earnings to be announced in the coming hours but some negative earning numbers in business already noted.
The impact of COVID in China also said to be driving the numbers.
Canadian lawyer David Anber sees three big pieces of misinformation driving a COVID fear narrative:
1. The vaccine is very effective at stopping transmission.
2. So-called "Long COVID" is a statistically significant occurrence.
3. Masks are needed to protect other people.....
DAVID ANBER TWITTER POST
The Reserve Bank in Australia is expected to respond to inflation with a big interest rate hike.
But Australia is in the middle of an election campaign right now ahead of voting on May 21st.
So the central bank interest hike is anticipated in June with one leading economist expecting an extra big one...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
A SUICIDE BOMBING IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN TODAY KILLED THREE CHINESE NATIONALS AND A PAKISTANI DRIVER.
THE SUICIDE BOMBER A WOMAN THE CHINESE CITIZENS IN PAKISTAN AS LANGUAGE TEACHERS...BBC NEWS
ISRAELI OFFICIALS REPORTED SAYING THE US IS CLOSE TO GIVING UP ON NUCLEAR TALKS WITH IRAN...AFP-TIMES OF ISRAEL
NORTH KOREAN RULER KIM JONG-UN SAYS HIS COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND STRENGTHEN ITS NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES.
NORTH KOREA'S NEWS AGENCY QUOTING KIM AS SAYING NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES WILL BE DEVELOPED AT THE 'FASTEST POSSIBLE SPEED'...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
ATTACKS IN NATION BORDERING UKRAINE WITH LARGE ETHNIC RUSSIAN POPULATION
TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED
BBC NEWS UKRAINE BLOG
Russia suspending natural gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland over their refusal to pay for supplies in Russian currency...THE NATIONAL-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
A major conference of 40 plus nations led by the US in Germany today to coordinate additional military support for Ukraine....
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in Moscow today for talks....
There have been attacks in the nation of Moldova which borders Ukraine and has a large ethnic Russian minority.
The attacks in the Transdniestria region which has a large Russian population...REUTERS...TASS RUSSIA
In other news.....
SRI LANKA, THE ISLAND NATION OFF THE COAST OF INDIA, TALKING WITH CHINA ABOUT REFINANCING ITS DEBT IN THE MIDST OF ITS WORST FINANCIAL CRISIS IN DECADES...REUTERS
Unvaccinated Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic will be allowed to play at Wimbledon.
Unlike the Australian Open tournament earlier this year, there will be no vaccination requirement for participating in the Wimbledon tournament...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
Finally tonight, the death of Canadian singer Susan Jacks remembered for the 1969 hit "Which Way You Goin Billy" by The Poppy Family. She died as the age of 73 awaiting a second kidney transplant ...CBC NEWS CANADA...
That's the way it really is Tuesday April 26th, 2022 Day 771 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 771 of America and the World held hostage to COVID shots.
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