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Ukraine's president touring the UK and Western Europe and getting words of support the death toll revised even higher in Turkey and Syria following the earthquakes but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
IN CANADA WITNESSES SAY THEY BELIEVE A CITY BUS DRIVER DELIBERATELY DROVE HIS BUS INTO A DAYCARE CENTER IN THE MONTREAL SUBURB OF LAVAL THIS MORNING.
TWO CHILDREN DEAD, SIX INJURED.
POLICE ARRESTED THE 51-YEAR OLD DRIVER WHO IS BEING CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE AND RECKLESS DRIVING...MONTREAL GAZETTE...LATE WORD IS THAT THERE ARE NINE CHARGES AGAINST THE DRIVER INCLUDING TWO OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER...(CTV News)
The International Court of Justice in The Hague (Netherlands) moving forward with its probe into the differences between Israel and the Palestinians.
The court is asking for written statements by July 25 with comments on the statements being allowed until October.
The ICJ is acting following a UN General Assembly vote in December supporting a Palestinian resolution asking the court for an "advisory opinion" on Israeli policy regarding the Palestinians...TIMES OF ISRAEL
"Make Peace"
"We Had Rights"
Those were some of the messages on the signs as more than a thousand people marched on the streets of Munich this evening....VIDEO STREAM MUNICH PROTEST MARCH-RALLY WEDNESDAY 2/8/2023
The march and rally primarily against the German government's policies towards Russia and Ukraine.
Left-Wing journalist Seymour Hersh says he has a reliable source telling him that the US was behind the explosions on the Nord Stream pipeline last year.
Hersh saying Joe Biden personally authorized a mission by US Navy divers operating under the cover of a Baltic Sea exercise to carry out the demolition of the pipelines carrying Russian natural gas to Germany.
The White House is denying the story...TASS RUSSIA
IN FRANCE THE DEBATE OVER PENSION REFORM CONTINUED IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TODAY.
FRENCH LABOR UNIONS PLANNING PROTESTS THIS SATURDAY AND NEW STRIKES AND PROTESTS A WEEK FROM THURSDAY (FEBRUARY 16TH) OPPOSING THE PLAN OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON TO RAISE FRANCE'S RETIREMENT AGE FROM 62 TO 64 AND SHUFFLE PENSION BENEFITS...(BFM-TV France)
Zoom is cutting its workforce by 15 percent. That's 1,300 jobs, The technology company's CEO also saying that he's taking a big pay cut...ONE INDIA
THE MARKETS MOVED DOWNWARDS TODAY...
THE DOW JONES INUDSTRIAL AVERAGE CLOSED DOWN 207.68 POINTS.
THE NASDAQ DROPPED 203.27 OR 1.68 PERCENT IN VALUE.
AT 512 PM NEW YORK TIME THE PRICE OF OIL AT 78 DOLLARS AND 48 CENTS A BARREL UP ONE DOLLAR AND 34 CENTS...MARKETWATCH
REPUBLICAN POLITICAL LEADERS IN NORTH DAKOTA SINGING A NEW TUNE ABOUT A CHINESE OWNED CORN MILLING PLANT NEAR A US AIR FORCE BASE.
OFFICIALS IN GRAND FORKS ORIGINALLY APPROVING THE BUILDING OF THE PLANT OWNED BY THE CHINESE COMPANY FUFENG.
LOCAL RESIDENTS OBTAINED THE NEEDED SIGNAUTRES FOR A REFERENDUM ON THE ISSUE BUT THEIR PETITION WAS RULED INVALID ON TECHNICALITIES BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.
NOW THE LOCAL OFFICIALS HAVE DONE THE 180 DEGREE TURN AFTER INITIALLY SUPPORTING THE PROJECT IN THE NAME OF JOBS AND IMPROVING THE GRAND FORKS ECONOMY.
REPUBLICAN GRAND FORKS MAYOR BRANDON BOCHENSKI LOUDLY PROCLAIMING HIS OPPOSITION TO THE CHINESE OWNED FACTORY ON THE BASIS OF A LETTER FROM THE US AIR FORCE.
THE LETTER SAYS THERE'S A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT TO THE NEARBY GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE...THE BLAZE
EARTHQUAKE DISASTER IN TURKEY AND SYRIA
THE COUNT OF DEAD AND INJURED IN TURKEY REVISED UPWARDS TONIGHT
NEW CASUALTY NUMBERS IN SYRIA
TOTAL DEAD IN BOTH COUNTRIES NOW 14,843
(UPDATED WHEN ABLE)
LATE TONIGHT TURKISH OFFICIALS SAY 12,391 PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND 62,914 HAVE BEEN INJURED.
IN SYRIA THE GOVERNMENT REPORTS 1,262 DEAD IN REGIONS IT CONTROLS AND JIHADIST OPPOSITION FORCES REPORT 1,190 DEAD IN REGIONS THEY CONTROL...(TASS News Agency Russia)
IN SYRIA RELIEF PLANES ARRIVING FROM MANY NATIONS INCLUDING EGYPT, IRAN, THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AND VENEZUELA.
IN TURKEY PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN IS NOW IN THE DISASTER AREA.
In New Zealand officials announcing the discovery of 81 bales of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean.
The street value said to be half a billion dollars (315.75 Billion US Dollars).
Some of bales had stickers on them including a "Batman" logo and four-leaf clover...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
NORTH KOREAN RULER KIM JONG-UN AT A MILITARY BANQUET WITH HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER.
A PICTURE HAS BEEN PUBLISHED SHOWING KIM WITH HIS FAMILY SITTING AT THE BANQUET TABLE WITH GENERALS LINED UP BEHIND KIM. KIM WITH A CIGARETTE IN HAND...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA
The US is sending HIMARS rocket launchers and ammunition to Poland.
The State Department has approved the plan which has a cost of 10 billion dollars...REUTERS
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
ZELENSKY VISITS UK AND FRANCE
PINK FLOYD FOUNDER CALLS FOR UKRAINE CEASE-FIRE AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEEETING
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky visiting the UK.
He met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles...BBC NEWS BLOG...British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announcing more training for the Ukrainian military including jet pilot training along with longer range weapons...TASS RUSSIA...
This evening Zelensky in Paris meeting French President Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz...(BFM-TV France)
"We do not willingly raise our sons and daughters to provide fodder for your cannons"
The founder of the rock group Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, speaking a UN Security Council session on Ukraine today.
Waters calling on all sides in the conflict from the US and NATO to Russia and Ukraine to agree to an immediate cease-fire...TASS RUSSIA
In other news...
DISNEY ANNOUNCING A CUT OF 7,000 JOBS IN WHAT IS BEING CALLED A RESTRUCTURING....NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
Iran displaying a missile with writing in Hebrew.
The inscription reads:
"Death to Israel"...
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