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BREAKING NEWS:
"These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida is currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents...
...this unannounced raid on my home was neither necessary or appropriate"
That's part of the statement from President Trump this evening as the FBI conducted a search at his Mar-a-Lago Estate in Florida.
Trump spoke of his cooperation with relevant government agencies that made the FBI raid totally uncecessary.
Mainstream media reports have spoken of classified documents being taken from the White House when President Trump left.
Trump says that the FBI broke into a safe at his home among other things.
FBI agents from the Washington Field Office said to have participated in the raid...
In cities and towns across Germany the Monday walking protests continued this evening.
The "Spaziergang" events continuing to mobilize Germans supporting peace and freedom in the face of government attempts to control people with mask and vaccine orders due to COVID...
THE NAZI FLAG INCIDENT IN THE NETHERLANDS: A PLANTED FLAG?
Many voices in the Netherlands expressing their opinion that a Nazi flag near a bonfire discovered over the weekend was planted there to discredit the ongoing farmers protest.
A news photography agency owner who captured the image is claiming he has been subjected to threats amid suggestions that a press photographer may have put up the flag...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
Parents and visitors to childcare facilities in Austria being told to wear masks (muzzles) as a COVID measure.
The new COVID regime in Austria as quarantine requirements end includes a requirement that all people with COVID wear a mask (muzzle) for ten days in most indoor and outdoor setting unless there is two meters or more of "social distancing"...ORF AUSTRIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS: "FINAL TEXT" OF DEAL TO BRING IRAN AND US TOGETHER ON JCPOA NUCELAR AGREEMENT....
(UPDATED)
This effort to reverse the policy of President Trump who pulled the US out of the Obama Administration's JCPOA nuclear deal with the Iranians is being considered in Tehran right now.
A senior Iranian official speaks of 'relative progress' being made in the talks in Vienna...PRESS TV IRAN
In the South Pacific the US watching the implementation of a security pact between the Solomon Islands and China.
The US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in the islands over the weekend at a ceremony remembering the Battle of Guadalcanal which began in the area where the Solomon Islands capital city of Honiara and its airport are located some 80 years ago this month.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare did not attend the ceremony with Sherman taking note of his lack of attendance...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS IN NICARAGUA EXRPESSING THEIR SUPPORT FOR FELLOW BISHOP ROLANDO ALVAREZ PUT UNDER HOUSE ARREST FRIDAY.
ALVAREZ ACCUSED BY THE LEFTIST GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA OF TRYING TO 'INCITE 'HATRED' AND 'DISRUPT THE PEACE'...AFP FRANCE-TELEMETRO PANAMA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
"formally okay, but politically unacceptable"
The words of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with word that Greece's National Intelligence Service wiretapped the opposition Socialist leader Nikos Androulakis.
The wiretapping occurred for three months starting in September 2021 when Mr. Androulakis was a member of the European Parliament right before he became the leader of the Socialists.
Mr. Mitsotakis saying if he had known about the wiretapping he would not have allowed but he also is defending the EYP intelligence agency asserting a strong intelligence agency is needed.
The head of the intelligence agency and an aide to Mitsotakis resigned last week when EYP spying on a journalist was revealed in a closed door parliamentary hearing.
Opposition leader Androulakis has complained to prosecutors that an attempt was made to hack his cellphone with Israeli made software...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY
RUSSIA INFORMING THE UNITED STATES TODAY THAT IT'S EXEMPTING ITS FACILITIES FROM INSPECTION UNDER THE NEW START TREATY.
RUSSIA SAYS THE MOVE IS TEMPORARY...TASS RUSSIA
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
RUSSIAN MILITARY ACTIONS AROUND NUCELAR POWER PLANT FOCUS OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA REPORTING FOLLOWING AMNESTY REPORT ABOUT UKRAINE USING CIVILIAN LOCATIONS FOR MILITARY OPERATIONS
(ANALYSIS)
A heavy dose of news stories about Ukraine with the word "nuclear" in them over the weekend and into today.
Concern about military deployment by Russia in and around a nuclear power plant.
The media painting a picture of a nuclear facility being as a shield for Russian forces.
This media theme following the Amnesty International Report last week noting extensive use of civilian locations like hospitals and schools by Ukrainian military forces.
In other news...
THE MARKETS STUCK TODAY.
THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE WENT UP SLIGHTLY 29.07 POINTS.
THE NADAQ DROPPING A LITTLE OFF 13.10 POINTS.
THE PRICE OF OIL ROSE TODAY TO OVER 90 DOLLARS A BARREL BY LATE AFTERNOON...MARKETWATCH
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party Prime Minister Fumio Kishida with his lowest numbers ever in a poll done by Japan's NHK public media outlet.
Much controversy over the recent assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. 50 percent of those polled objecting to the state funeral for Abe.
Also 82 percent of those polled saying that politicians in the LDP had not been forthcoming in explaining ties between themselves and the Unification Church...REUTERS-MALAY MAIL
Singing star Olivia Newton-John is dead at the age of 73.
The British born Australian performer died at her ranch in southern California.
She is remembered for her performance in the movie "Grease" with actor John Travolta...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
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