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NEWS OF THE PRIMARY CONTESTS AND SPECIAL ELECTION IN ALASKA IN THIS SUMMARY LATER A BIG DUMP OF VOTES LATE IN THE DAY...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
ARGENTINA STREET PROTESTS
Mass protests on the streets of downtown Buenos Aires today. Thousands demanding higher wages and lower prices.
So far this year the official inflation rate 46.2 percent but there are projections that inflation will worsen to 90 percent or more on an annual basis by the end of the year...TELEMETRO-PANAMA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
Former New York Mayor and lawyer for President Trump Rudy Giuliani testifying in Atlanta before a Democrat grand jury trying to criminalize Mr. Trump's efforts to uncover voter fraud in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election...CNN
Meanwhile Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp does not want to testify tomorrow before that Democrat grand jury investigation against President Trump's efforts to find voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election.
Kemp notes the subpoena from Fulton County, Georgia comes during the 2022 Election campaign and as such has political implications...ABC NEWS
Wall Street started going downwards today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ plunged at the open this morning the dip easing in the afternoon but in the end there were declines.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 171.69 points or .50 percent.
The NASDAQ down 164.43 points or 1.25 percent...MARKETWATCH
THE RESERVE BANK IN NEW ZEALAND HIKING THE PRIME LENDING RATE .50 PERCENT TO 3.0 PERCENT TODAY...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
An update on the economic turmoil in the Central American nation of Panama.
The government has decided to allow pharmacies to import drugs but is still working out the details.
That after small independent pharmacies started shutting down over government orders to retroactively cut prices 30 percent for 170 medicines.
Pharmacies speak of reopening but without lower prices on those medicines.
Talks resuming today involving the government, business, labor unions and others trying to find agreement over grievances related to inflation and the high cost of living.
Those talks started as the result of highway blockade protests across the country...(Telemetro Panama)
IN AUSTRALIA AN INCREASING SHORTAGE OF MEDICINES WITH DOCTORS AND PHARMACISTS SAYING ITS BECOMING MORE CRITICAL.
THERE IS CONCERN ABOUT SERIOUS CONSEUQENCES FOR PATIENTS...(ABC News Australia)...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
(Updated) In the Netherlands protesters on the street in the town of Albergen near the German border.
They demonstrated outside the hotel that's been ordered to become a center for migrants seeking asylum in the country.
The local government was overruled by the national government in the decision to create the center for migrants entering the Netherlands...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...
There's talk of local residents trying to buy the hotel as a means of disrupting the government's plans to house migrants there...(NOS Netherlands)
A MASSIVE EXPLOSION AT A MOSQUE IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN THIS EVENING.
MANY FEARED DEAD IN THE BLAST...BBC NEWS
THE UNITED STATES SAYS 13 MEMBERS OF THE AL-SHABAAB TERRORIST GROUP HAVE BEEN KILLED IN AN AIRSTRIKE IN SOMALIA.
ALASKA ELECTION VOTE COUNT
(UPDATED)
Alaska politics and the primary contests for the US House and US Senate seats with a "Ranked Choice Voting" system playing in the primaries.
In the US Senate race both Anti-Trump incumbent Lisa Murkowski and President Trump endorsed Kelly Tshibaka move to the final round that will eventually include two other candidates.
In the US House primary race President Trump endorsed Governor Sarah Palin along with Nick Begich and Mary Peltola advance to the November vote to be joined by another candidate.
The vote count is still underway in the Special Election for the US House seat under the "Ranked Choice Voting" system.
(Updated) Democrat Mary Peltola leads Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich now with 82 percent of the votes counted...
Meanwhile in Wyoming with 100 percent of the votes counted in the Republican US House Primary President Trump endorsed State Senator Harriet Hageman with 66 percent of the vote to incumbent Liz Cheney's 29 percent.
PPOLITICS HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR STATE SENATOR DOUG MASTRIANO CHALLENGING DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE ATTORNEY GENERAL JOSH SHAPIRO TO TWO DEBATES.
EACH DEBATE WOULD LAST FOR 90 MINUTES.
SHAPIRO'S CAMPAIGN WAS QUICK TO SHOOT DOWN THE PROPOSED DEBATES.
MASTRIANO CALLING FOR THE CANDIDATES TO ORGANIZE THE DEBATES THEMSELVES.
QUESTIONS WOULD COME FROM MODERATORS SELECTED BY THE TWO CANDIDATES CAMPAIGNS KEEPING THE NEWS MEDIA OUT OF THE PROCESS.
MASTRIANO NOTING THAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS BIASED AGAINST REPUBLICAN POLITICAL CANDIDATES...PENNLIVE
Controversy in India as Hindu men convicted of gang rape in anti-Muslim riots in 2002 were freed Monday on the 75th anniversary of India's independence...BBC NEWS
IN SAUDI ARABIA A WOMAN WHO SHARED TWITTER POSTS OF OPPONENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT NOW FACES 34 YEARS IN PRISON.
SALMA AL-SHEHAB, WHO WAS STUDYING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, ARRESTED WHEN SHE TRAVELED TO SAUDI ARABIA ORIGINALLY GETTING A LIGHTER SENTENCE.
BUT NOW ON APPEAL THE SENTENCE JACKED UP TO 34 YEARS.
AL-SHEHAB IS A SHIA MUSLIM. SAUDI ARABIA IS THE HOMELAND OF SUNNI ISLAM...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
North Korea firing two cruise missiles today towards the Yellow Sea.
The missile firings come days before US and South Korean military exercises...EFE SPAIN-LA PRENSA LATINA
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
UKRAINIAN SHELLING ATTACK ON EASTERN CITY OCCUPIED BY RUSSIAN FORCES
Tonight Russian officials reporting a massive Ukrainian artillery attack on the eastern city of Energodar...TASS RUSSIA
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arriving in western Ukraine where he will be part of a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan...TASS RUSSIA
In other news....
Russia projecting a 13.4 percent inflation rate this year.
The Russian Economy Ministry also expecting a 4.2 percent drop in GDP for this year in which unprecedented sanctions were imposed on the country...TASS RUSSIA
Israel and Turkey are restoring full diplomatic relations.
The decision follows a recent phone conversation between Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...TIMES OF ISRAEL
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