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We are learning that school administration was told about a possible weapon on a student accused of shooting his First Grade teacher last Friday in Virginia but first...
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PERU'S PRESIDENT DINA BOLUARTE SPEAKING TONIGHT SAYING SHE WILL NOT RESIGN.
PROTESTERS ON THE STREETS AND HIGHWAYS SUPPORTING FORMER PRESIDENT PEDRO CASTILLO CALLING FOR A DISSOLUTION OF CONGRESS AND EARLY ELECTIONS.
PRESIDENT BOLUARTE APOLOGIZING FOR PROTESTERS KILLED BY POLICE DURING THE DEMONSTRATIONS.
BOLUARTE SAID SHE WANTS AN EARLY VOTE BY CONGRESS ON A BILL TO MOVE THE ELECTION DATE FORWARD FROM 2024.
AND SHE ALSO CLAIMS THAT ARMS AND AMMUNITION HAVE ENTERED THE COUNTRY THROUGH IT'S SOUTHERN BORDER...
The Russian Embassy in the UK says that Ukrainian forces appear to be getting ready to use chemical weapons.
A Twitter post points to a video by Ukrainian soldiers that shows them preparing to use gas cylinders on attack drones...TASS RUSSIA
THE US PRESSURING SERBIA OVER RECRUITMENT OF SERBIAN NATIONALS BY RUSSIA'S WAGNER GROUP TO FIGHT IN UKRAINE.
A US STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL VISITING SERBIA TELLING THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST 'ILLEGAL ACTIVITY'...IRISH INDEPENDENT...
More on Russia and Ukraine later in the summary..,
An explosion on a gas pipeline that connects the Baltic nations of Lativa and Lithuania.
There were no injuries.
An investigation underway but Latvia's energy minister said to have been informed there was a technical accident...SKY NEWS UK
THE GERMAN DEFENSE MINISTER IS RESIGNING.
CHRISTINE LAMBRECHT FOUND HERSELF IN A STORM OF CONTROVERSY FOLLOWING A SOCIAL MEDIA POST ON NEW YEAR'S EVE.
LAMBRECHT DISCUSSING THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE WITH FIREWORKS IN THE BACKGROUND...DEUTSCHE WELLE
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigating the possibility that Pfizer's Bivalent COVID vaccine increases the risk of ischemic stroke in people 65 years and older.
The CDC saying that it's real-time monitoring as the vaccine is used has triggered a "safety signal"...FOX NEWS
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS NOTIFIED CONGRESS OF THE POTENTIAL SALE OF F-16 FIGHTER JETS TO TURKIYE (TURKEY).
OBJECTING TO THE SALE IS DEMOCRAT SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ OF NEW JERSEY.
THE TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER VISITING WASHINGTON NEXT WEDNESDAY...INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
In Brazil the controversial Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes approving the inclusion of former President Jair Bolsonaro in the probe of the January 6th style incident that occurred in key government buildings in the capital city of Brasilia last Sunday....BBC NEWS
US HOUSE SPEAKER KEVIN MCCARTHY INVITING JOE BIDEN TO DELIVER HIS STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE ON FEBRUARY 7TH...THE HILL...
Meanwhile there is word that the US debt ceiling will reach its limit next Thursday January 19th.
A letter saying that sent by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to House Speaker McCarthy.
Yellen saying that special measures can be used to delay the need for increasing the debt ceiling until early June.
The White House demanding that the 31.4 trillion-dollar limit be increased without conditions...
"shocking"
"Climate" activist Greta Thunberg speaking in Luetzerath, Germany today as police continue to remove protesters from the site where a new coal mine is planned.
Police have taken out hundreds of demonstrators since Wednesday.
Some protesters still holed up in treehouses and tunnels.
Climate activists angry with Germany's government that includes the Green Party for allowing construction of a new coal mine.
A mass protest planned for tomorrow with Thunberg decrying "police violence".
She said that if corporations and governments work together to destroy the environment then the population must raise their voice and fight it....
Protests continue in Germany against government COVID, economic and Russia polices. A rally and march this evening in Borbeck a suburb of Essen...VIDEO LINK (ONE HOUR, 47 MINUTE VIDEO)
A BRITISH FOOTBALL (SOCCER) STAR FOUND NOT GUILTY OF SIX COUNTS OF RAPE AND ONE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
THE JURY AT THE TRIAL OF BENJAMIN MENDY UNABLE TO REACH A DECISION ON ONE COUNT OF RAPE AND ANOTHER OF ATTEMPTED RAPE.
THE PLAYER FOR THE MANCHESTER CITY TEAM WILL BE RETRIED ON THOSE CHARGES...BBC NEWS
In farewell media interviews the outgoing Israeli Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi denouncing policies of the new government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Kohavi denouncing the military authority structure for Judea and Samaria (The West Bank). adopted by the new government.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionism Party says Kohavi is trying to launch a political career with his criticism...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Russia says that its forces have taken total control of Soledar in the Donestsk Region.
Russia claims the "destruction" of over 700 Ukrainian troops and over 300 weapons systems.
The Russian defense ministry spokesman says the town was "completely liberated"...TASS RUSSIA...
Meanwhile a Donetsk People's Republic official walking back the notion that Artyomovosk (Bakhmut-Ukrainian) is encircled by Russian forces...TASS RUSSIA
TURKIYE (TURKEY) ANGERED BY KURDISH DEMONSTRATIONS IN SWEDEN AGAINST ITS PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN.
ONE ASPECT OF THE PROTEST THE HANGING OF AN EFFIGY OF PRESIDENT ERDOGAN UPSIDE DOWN...ANADOLU AGENCY
TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER MEVLUT CAVUSOGLU SAYS THAT IT WILL NOT SUPPORT SWEDEN'S NATO MEMBERSHIP BID UNLESS DECISIVE MEASURES ARE TAKEN AGAINST THE KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY (PKK)...TASS RUSSIA
In Sweden a major discovery of 'rare earths' touted.
One use for them is the making of electric cars.
This discovery being hyped as offering a future supply of 'rare earths' from a source other than China...FOX NEWS...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
THE MARKETS TODAY THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE UP 112.64 POINTS AND THE NASDAQ UP 78.05 POINTS.
THE PRICE OF OIL UP ONE DOLLAR AND 69 CENTS A BARREL TO 80 DOLLARS AND EIGHT CENTS A BARREL AT 505 PM NEW YORK TIME...MARKETWATCH
NATO deploying AWACS monitoring aircraft to Romania to monitor Russian military activity...TASS RUSSIA
US CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY DIRECTOR WILLIAM BURNS IN LIBYA MEETING THAT COUNTRY'S PRIME MINISTER.
BURNS STRESSING THE NEED FOR ECONOMIC AND SECURITY COOPERATION BETWEEN LIBYA AND THE UNITED STATES...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY
Police in South Korea seeking manslaughter charges against 23 officials in connection with the Halloween crowd crush that killed nearly 160 people...ASSOCIATED PRESS-CBS NEWS
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
RUSSIAN ANALYST SEES POSSIBLE UKRAINIAN MILITARY MOVES
An military analyst for the Lugansk People's Republic thinks Ukraine will launch mining operations and possible offensive actions following the defeat in Soledar...TASS RUSSIA
In other news...
The US is offering a 10 million dollar reward for information leading to arrest of the leader of a 2019 terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya.
The attack at a hotel complex killed 21 people including a US citizen and wounded 30 others...VOICE OF AMERICA
In that school shooting involving a six-year old student and his First Grade teacher last Friday in Virginia we now know that at least one school administrator was notified that the student may have a weapon.
The students backpack was searched before the shooting but no weapon was found.
The Richneck Elementary School where the attack occurred will remin closed through next week...WTKR-TV
Meanwhile metal detectors will be installed at all public schools in Newport News, Virginia.
That follows last Friday's shooting involving the First Grade elementary school teacher that police say was done by the six-year old student...WTKR-TV
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