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Monday, January 16, 2023
NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 1/16/2022 STRIKE PLANS FOR FRANCE, TOP US DIPLOMAT TO VISIT CHINA, 'COMPROMISE' PUSHED IN ISRAELI POLITICAL DISPUTE, THOUSANDS OF 'LEADERS' GATHER IN DAVOS
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A legendary Italian actress who was a political candidate late in her life is dead. More on Gina Lollobrigida later but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
In France strike plans forming for Thursday in opposition to "pension reform" planned by President Emmanuel Macron.
Labor organizations leading the call for a strike with student organizations now indicating their support.
One energy labor leader suggesting a targeted shutoff of electricity to elected officials homes over the proposal to raise France's retirement age and cut benefits to some retirees...(BFM-TV France)
In Ukraine tonight a US delegation has arrived led by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman...TASS RUSSIA...
Meanwhile the International Atomic Energy Agency has established a permanent presence at the "South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant"...TASS RUSSIA
More on Russia and Ukraine later in the summary...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is to travel to China next month.
Blinken will be in Beijing for talks February 5th and 6th.
China recently appointed former ambassador to the US Qin Gang as Foreign Minister...POLITICO
PROTESTS IN PERU CONTINUE OPPOSITION TO THE OUSTER OF LEFTIST PRESIDENT PEDRO CASTILLO LAST MONTH AND HIS REPLACEMENT BY DINA BOLUARTE.
PERUVIAN POLICE TRYING TO STOP PROTESTERS FROM TRAVELING TO THE CAPITAL CITY OF LIMA FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY TODAY.
DEMONSTRATORS ON THE STREETS OF THE CAPITAL CITY THIS EVENING.
Monday night in Germany means protest walks they started opposing COVID policies but now have expanded to oppose the economic and Russia policies of the German government.
This group walking in the streets of Eisenach tonight...
Another such protest was held in Ulm in southern Germany last Friday one protester holding a sign reading "Bargeld Verteidigen" which translates to "Defending Cash"...
ISRAELI POLITICS: MASSIVE OPPOSITION PROTESTS AND CALLS FOR 'COMPROMISE TALKS' ON JUDICIAL REFORM
(NEWS, ANALYSIS, COMMENT)
(UPDATED WITH LATER NEWS)
In the aftermath of the massive opposition protests Saturday night there have been calls for "compromise" and "mediation" over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reform plan.
First they came from President Isaac Herzog.
Now former Defense Minister Benny Gantz who leads the "Military Industrial Complex" political faction in Parliament (National Unity Party) wants talks over judicial reform.
Mr. Netanyahu says he remains committed to his plan only minor changes are possible as he sees it.
Underlying the debate over judicial reform is the ongoing prosecution of Netanyahu by Israel's judicial system.
That is seen as a driving force behind his push for changes in the system.
If a "compromise" actually materializes in the coming days an end to Mr. Netanyahu's prosecution would have to be on the table to achieve it...TIMES OF ISRAEL NEWS STORY...
Tonight one Likud party lawmaker in the government suggests the notion of negotiations while the Justice Minister acknowledges that the prosecution of Mr. Netanyahu is a driving force behind the judicial reform legislation...TIMES OF ISRAEL
US politics and the story today there are no logs of visitors to Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home where classified documents were located until recently "discovered"...BBC NEWS
IN THE UK NEW LEGISLATION GIVING POLICE INCREASED POWERS TO SHUT DOWN PROTESTS.
UNDER THE PROPOSAL POLICE COULD CRACK DOWN ON PROTESTS THAT BLOCK OR MOVE SLOWLY ON STREETS AND HIGHWAYS...BBC NEWS
Top political leaders from the European Union, Germany, Finland, Greece, the Philippines, South Africa and South Korea among others.
56 finance ministers, 19 central bank presidents, 30 trade ministers, 35 foreign ministers some of the more than 2,700 attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
130 countries represented, more than 1,500 business attendees from 700 organizations.
"Solutions" to world problems said to be on the agenda...
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN TALKING WITH TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN BY PHONE TODAY.
ISSUES LIKE UKRAINE ON THE TABLE AND ALSO SYRIA AS ERDOGAN PURSUES A NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH THE ASSAD GOVERNMENT BROKEN OFF BY THE CIVIL WAR THERE...TASS RUSSIA
"They are shifting from one war to another. But how should I feel, a slave of America"
SOME OF THE WORDS COMING FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BALKAN NATION OF CROATIA ZORAN MILANOVIC.
COMMENTING ON THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE MR. MILANOVIC SAYING:
"Washington and NATO are waging a proxy war against Russia with the help of Ukraine".
THE CROATIAN PRESIDENT HAS SPOKEN OUT AGAINST THE TRAINING OF UKRAINIAN SOLIDERS IN HIS COUNTRY. THE NOTION RECENTLY REJECTED BY THE COUNTRY'S PARLIAMENT...TASS RUSSIA
In New Zealand grocery supply costs up 10.6 percent annually last month.
The supply costs for produce rising 24 percent year to year.
The increasing costs said to be easing from earlier months but it's not clear if that trend will continue...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
In the Southern African nation of Zimbabwe police raiding the home of an opposition leader over the weekend arresting dozens including an opposition member of Parliament.
Following the arrests, police beat those considered members of the opposition nearby.
Elections are planned in the country later this year...THE ZIMBABWEAN
Legendary Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida is dead at the age of 95. In the 1950's she was promoted as "the most beautiful woman in the world".
After her movie career she launched a career in photography meeting famous people like Fidel Castro, Henry Kissinger and David Cassidy.
And later in her life she was an unsuccessful candidate for political office.
In 2022 Lollobrigida stood as a candidate for Italy's Senate for a small political party opposed to mandatory COVID vaccination and Italian membership in the European Union and NATO. She received one percent of the vote...BBC NEWS
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