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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
Politics in the USA polling ahead of Georgia's Republican Primary for Governor on Tuesday incumbent Brian Kemp with 52 percent and former US Senator David Purdue at 38 percent with other candidates trailing.
This is a Fox 5/Insider Advantage Poll.
Kemp will need to get more than 50 percent of the vote Tuesday to avoid a June 21st runoff with Purdue...
In North Carolina East Carolina University out with a poll about the November General Election contest for US Senate.
Republican Ted Budd leading Democrat Cheri Beasley 47 to 39 percent...
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps member described as a senior official in the elite Quds (Jerusalem) Force assassinated this afternoon in Tehran.
Hassan Sayyad Khodaei killed by two motorcyclists who fled the scene following the attack...PRESS TV IRAN...TIMES OF ISRAEL
The political drama in Israel today with a left-wing parliamentarian returning to the government fold after defecting last week.
Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi says the alternative to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's broad coalition of parties is worse with what would be a more conservative government...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel changing the COVID rules this weekend allowing entry without COVID tests...TIMES OF ISRAEL
THE GLOBAL ELITES IN DAVOS FOR THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
It's a meeting with elected Republicans and Democrats from the United States and more than 2000 participants in total from all over the world.
The World Economic Forum opening in Davos today fewer participants at the first confab in Switzerland in over two and half years but an ambitious agenda.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky getting the kind of attention previously given to Chinese President Xi Jin-ping...ARD TAGESSCHAU TV NEWS GERMANY (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
THE VOTE COUNT DRAGS ON IN AUSTRALIA WITH MAIL-IN VOTES OUT OF THE MIX
A slow trickle of votes Sunday from Australia's Saturday election. Mail-in votes outstanding with the vote count 70.5 percent complete for all 151 House of Representatives seats and 39.6 percent complete for the 40 out of 76 Senate seats being contested.
More votes expected to be added in Monday.
(UPDATED) SEVERE WEATHER IN CANADA THIS WEEKEND ACROSS ONTARIO AND QUEBEC WITH AT LEAST THERE DEATHS REPORTED...CBC NEWS CANADA...
NEARLY ONE MILLION HOMES LOSING POWER DUE TO THE STORMS...BBC NEWS
THE US, INDIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCING A TRACKING SYSTEM TO MONITOR ILLEGAL FISHING BY CHINA
The announcement comes as the leaders of the four nations meet in Japan to counter China in the Indo-Pacific region.
Concern that China may be negotiating a security pact with the Pacific Ocean island chain nation of Kiribati. This follows the recent security pact between China and the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific...NEWS AGENCIES-TRT WORLD TURKEY
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan putting pressure on Swedish and Finnish leaders this weekend.
Erdogan making his demands that Finland and Sweden criminalize the activities of Kurdish groups that Turkey considers terrorists.
Turkey has veto power over the Swedish and Finnish applications to join NATO...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY..
MEANWHILE IN TURKEY THIS WEEKEND A RALLY IN ISTANBUL TENS OF THOUSANDS ATTENDING IN SUPPORT OF CANAN KAFTANCIOGLU.
SHE HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF INSULTING PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN AND INSULTING THE TURKISH STATE AND NOW FACES A SUSPENDED SENTENCE...BBC NEWS
Pakistan's new Foreign Minister speaking in China after talks with his Chinese counterpart saying any attack on China is an attack on Pakistan...CGTN CHINA...
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visiting China after holding talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken...THE WEEK INDIA
A CEASE-FIRE VIOLATION SATURDAY AFTERNOON ON THE CONTACT LINE BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN. ARMENIA SAYS ONE OF ITS SOLDIERS WAS WOUNDED WHEN AZERBIJANI FORCES OPENED FIRE...TASS RUSSIA
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
FOREIGN FIGHTERS CAPTURED IN MARIUPOL
PETER HITCHENS CHALLENGES CONVENTIONAL NARRATIVE ABOUT UKRAINE
An ethnic Russian leader in Ukraine says foreigners were among those captured when Ukrainian forces surrendered at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine...TASS RUSSIA...
"If Canada treated its French speakers as Ukraine treats its Russian speakers, there would be international outrage"
That is part of the commentary this weekend from Peter Hitchens in the "Mail on Sunday" in the UK.
Hitchens also questioning why media outlets referred to the surrender of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol as an "evacuation" instead of a "surrender"...PETER HITCHENS COLUMN
Other news today...
IN FRANCE TWO WOMEN ARE ALLEGING THAT THE NEW MINISTER OF SOLIDARITY IN PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON'S CABINET RAPED THEM.
DAMIEN ABAD IS A FORMER POLITICIAN FOR FRANCE'S MAINSTREAM RIGHT 'LES REPUBLICANS'...(BFM-TV)
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