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Friday, July 15, 2022
NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 7/15/2022 NEWSDUMP FRIDAY AUSTRALIAN CABINET HOLDS SNAP WEEKEND COVID MEETING, BIDEN'S SAUDI VISIT HYPED AS GOOD FOR ISRAEL, SAUDIS INCREASE RUSSIAN OIL USE, WILDFIRES RAGE IN EUROPE
(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING UNTIL 11 PM EASTERN US TIME)
The Joe Biden visit to Saudi Arabia begins but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
The US Navy says that the USS Benfold destroyer sailed near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Saturday July 16th local time.
The Navy calling it a "freedom of navigation" operation near the islands China claims as it's territory.
China claimed it had driven off the destroyer on Wednesday as it sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands...REUTERS-STRAITS TIMES-SINGAPORE
Ivana Trump's death yesterday was the result of an accident. That finding by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in New York City today...THE AGE-MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
A NATIONAL CABINET MEETING HELD TO DISCUSS COVID IN AUSTRALIA SATURDAY.
THE MEETING ORIGINALLY SET FOR MONDAY MOVED UP TWO DAYS.
AUSTRALIA'S CHIEF HEALTH OFFICER SPEAKING TO THE CABINET TODAY.
PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE TWEETING IN PART:
"we will discuss proposals to ensure the vulnerable are protected over coming weeks".
After the meeting Mr. Albanese announced that emergency payments will be extended through to the end of September for those forced to isolate themselves or care for others because of COVID...
Australia's federal and state governments will be encouraging more wearing of masks in indoor settings where people can't socially distance and promoting more COVID testing in the coming weeks...
Joe Biden heading off a railroad workers strike by ordering 115,000 workers in the US to stay on the job.
Biden invoking federal law to have a mediation board work on a contract between labor and management...CNN
TONIGHT IN ISRAEL TWO ROCKETS FIRED FROM GAZA. ONE INTERCEPTED AND THE OTHER LANDING IN AN OPEN AREA. NO DAMAGE REPORTED...TIMES OF ISRAEL...
EARLY SATURDAY MORNING RETALIATORY AIR STRIKES ON GAZA BY ISRAEL WITH TWO MORE ROCKETS FIRED AT ISRAEL FROM GAZA...TIMES OF ISRAEL
A Mexican drug lord wanted for killing a US Drug Enforcement Agency agent captured in Mexico.
Rafael Caro Quintero was released after serving 28 years in prison in 2013
His release in the 1985 murder was on a technicality and then Quintero went underground.
He had a 20 million dollar bounty placed on him...MALAY MAIL
DUTCH FARMERS PROTEST BLOCKS HIGHWAYS TODAY
A FARMERS BLOCKADE AT AN INTERSECTION IN GISSENBURG, SOUTHERN HOLLAND WITH THE BLOCKADE GIVING WAY FOR A PASSING AMBULANCE
The Dutch farmers protest against climate change cow gas rules took to the highways today including major blockades on three key highways (A1, A28 and A50)...
Authorities in the Netherlands reporting more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) of traffic jams in the country as of 330 pm this afternoon...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)....
Police in Montgomery County, Maryland outside Washington say they will enforce laws involving disorderly conduct and noise at protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices...(WTOP Washington)...WTOP WASHINGTON
A NEW ZEALAND DOCTOR ARGUED THAT NOT HAVING IVERMECTIN AVAILABLE FOR HIS PATIENTS TO TREAT COVID WAS LIKE GOING INTO A BOXING RING WITH ONE HAND TIED BEHIND HIS BACK.
BUT A JUDGE IN NEW ZEALAND DISAGREED REFUSING TO RETURN IVERMECTIN AND MELATONIN SEIZED AT THE BORDER.
Health Canada approving the first COVID shots for infants and toddlers.
Moderna's COVID shots getting approval for the six months to 5 years age group in Canada...CBC NEWS CANADA...
Also in Canada mandatory COVID testing for fully vaccinated air travelers resuming next week.
The mandatory random testing for visitors to Canada arriving at four major airports is to be done at offsite locations like pharmacies...CBC NEWS CANADA
In Sri Lanka the unpopular Ranil Wickremesinghe who was Prime Minister has been sworn in as President of the country following the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa ...BBC NEWS
Politics here in the USA Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney trailing by a wide margin in the latest polling for the August 16th GOP Primary.
State Senator Harriet Hagerman at 52 percent to Cheney's 30 percent.
Cheney a leading opponent of President Trump with Hagerman backed by Mr. Trump...THE HILL
JOE BIDEN IN ISRAEL TODAY CONDUCTING THE PALESTINIAN PART OF HIS VISIT TO ISRAEL.
VISITING EAST JERUSALEM BIDEN PLEDGING 100 MILLON DOLLARS TO SUPPORT PALESTINIAN HOSPITALS...TIMES OF ISRAEL
"heartbreaking"
The description of Joe Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia coming from fiancee of Jamal Khashoggi.
The Saudi journalist murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018 in a killing that top intelligence officials believe was ordered by the de-facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Khashoggi's body never found it is believed a bone saw and chemicals were used to dispose of his remains following the murder...
The hype and promotion of the Biden trip to Saudi Arabia in full swing the visit being touted as good for Israel and in opposition to Iran and its nuclear program...TIMES OF ISRAEL
No talk about the need for Saudi Arabia to increase oil production as a means of keeping gasoline prices lower in the US and helping Joe Biden politically.
And there's word that Saudi Arabia has doubled its oil imports from Russia in the last three months.
Second quarter imports amounting to 647,000 tons of oil this year compared to 320,000 tons last year.
A curfew in Akron, Ohio tonight following autopsy results on Jayland Walker showing 46 bullet or graze wounds on his body.
The 25-year-old black man shot by a group of police June 27th in when he made what appeared to be a threatening move.
The cops firing some 90 rounds as they chased Walker after he bailed out of a car.
His lawyer and family say Walker was unarmed at that time...BBC NEWS
A POSITIVE DAY ON WALL STREET. BOTH THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE AND NASDAQ UP TODAY.
THE DOW RISING 658.09 POINTS OR 2.15 PERCENT AND THE NASDAQ 201.24 POINTS OR 1.79 PERCENT...MARKETWATCH
Here in Central Pennsylvania a key school district in sports adopting a policy that members of school sports teams must be on the teams that match their gender at birth.
The Hempfield School Board in Lancaster County voting to adopt that policy in a 6-3 vote...THE HILL
The European Union taking Hungary to the European Court. The EU wants to nullify a Hungarian law that bans propaganda in schools promoting the LGBTI point of view.
Also going to the European Court a decision by Hungary to deny a broadcasting license to a radio station critical of the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
WILDFIRES RAGING IN EUROPE THOUSANDS FORCED TO FLEE IN FRANCE, GREECE AND SPAIN.
HOT CONDITIONS ACROSS EUROPE IN MANY PLACES TEMPERATURES ABOVE 40 DEGREES CENTRIGRADE (104 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT)...BBC NEWS...
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM A HEAT WARNING HAS BEEN DECLARED....BBC NEWS
"Many" but not all Secret Service text messages from January 5th and 6th of 2021 have been erased.
The Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security was reviewing the handling of matters related to January 6th when this was discovered.
The Secret Service says the messages were lost during a "device-replacement program"...ASSOCIATED PRESS-ABC NEWS USA
In Michigan a "progressive" group involved in a lawsuit to keep Republican candidate for Governor Ryan Kelley off the ballot in the August 2nd Primary.
Kelley recently arrested in connection with January 6th at the US Capitol...THE HILL...
Polling published this week by the Detroit News and WDIV-TV showed Kelley performing the best among the Republican candidates in the General Election against incumbent Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
THE US HOUSE APPROVING AN 840 BILLION DOLLAR DEFENSE SPENDING BILL...ANADOLU AGENCY-TURKIYE
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