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Sunday, April 9, 2023
NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 4/9/2023 HAPPY EASTER NEWSDUMP FRENCH PRESIDENT WANTS EUROPE OUT OF US-CHINA CONFLICT, GOP IDAHO GOV. VETOES BILL TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM EXPLICIT MATERIAL IN LIBRARIES, MUSK VISITS CHINA TESLA TO BUILD NEW FACTORY THERE
(POSTING WHEN ABLE WITH FINAL POSTING AT MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME)
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
In the nation of Georgia next to Russia a mass rally by opponents of the government who support the country being more aligned with the European Union and United States than Russia.
The arrival of a Saudi delegation in the capital of Yemen for talks with Iranian backed Houthi rebels raising hopes of a peace in the country's civil war.
A mediation team from Oman is also reported on hand...BBC NEWS
The controversy over those documents said to be from the US intelligence community reaches Israel.
The Israeli government vehemently denying contents of a CIA intelligence assessment saying that leaders of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency were promoting the recent mass protests against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...
Signals intelligence said to be behind the assessment which would mean that the US government was spying on Israel.
The FBI is probing the leak of the documents which are considered to be very credible with doubts being raised about how factual their content is...MIDDLE EAST EYE
More on the tense security situation in Israel today later in the summary....
AT LEAST FOUR ARE DEAD FOLLOWING AN AVALANCHE IN THE FRENCH ALPS.
BUILDING COLLAPSE IN MARSEILLE FRANCE INJURED AND MISSING
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Rescue efforts continue following an apartment building collapse in Marseille France. The four-story building coming down with what residents called an explosion.
At least five injured with survivors possibly under the rubble.
Eight people are not accounted for not answering phone calls according to authorities.
179 people were evacuated from the disaster area...(Information from BFM-TV France in this story)
IDAHO GOVERNOR REPUBLICAN BRAD LITTLE VETOING PUBLIC AND SCHOOL LIBRARY LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL.
THE REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED IDAHO HOUSE WAS UNABLE TO OVERRIDE HIS VIDEO COMING UP ONE VOTE SHORT...IDAHO DISPATCH
"Bud Light" beer going silent on social media following its decision to establish a partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney...NEW YORK POST
In the UK British Health Minister Steve Barclay says that the junior doctors union appears to be 'maintaining a militant stance'.
Barclay writing in "The Telegraph" amidst a pay dispute between the British Medical Assocation and the government.
The junior doctors want a 35 percent pay hike not just to deal with the current 10 percent plus inflation rate but also below inflation rate pay increases for the previous 15 years...BBC NEWS
FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON TELLING "POLITICO" THAT EUROPE MUST REDUCE DEPENDENCE ON THE UNITED STATES AND STAY OUT OF A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE US AND CHINA OVER TAIWAN.
MACRON'S COMMENTS COME ON THE HEELS OF HIS VISIT TO CHINA AND DEEP DISCONTENT IN FRANCE OVER HIS POLICIES...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
CHINESE MILITARY MANEUVERS AROUND TAIWAN
The BBC says that Chinese military maneuvers around Taiwan today simulated attacks on 'key targets'....BBC NEWS
The Chinese maneuvers around Taiwan this weekend described in some reports as a rehearsal to encircle the island.
The Chinese maneuvers a response to last Wednesday's meeting between Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-Wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California.
China had warned against such a meeting.
As China geared up its military response this weekend a US delegation led by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Republican Congressman Michael McCaul of Texas arrived in Taiwan.
TESLA BUILDING NEW BATTERY PLANT IN CHINA
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BUSINESS TYCOON ELON MUSK VISITING CHINA THIS WEEKEND. MUSK TOURING THE TESLA PLANT IN SHANGHAI.
MUSK WAS SEEKING MEETINGS WITH TOP CHINESE OFFICIALS DURING HIS THREE DAY- VISIT.
FORMER ADVISER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP STEVE BANNON CHARACTERIZED THE VISIT AS MUSK GOING TO THE 'HOME OFFICE TO KOWTOW TO HIS PAYMASTERS' THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY...NEWSWEEK...
THE LATEST WORD IS THAT TESLA WILL BUILD A NEW 'MEGAPACK' FACTORY IN CHINA THAT WILL MAKE 'MEGAPACK' LARGE BATTERIES...CNBC
TENSIONS, ATTACKS IN ISRAEL
(UPDATED WHEN ABLE)
In Lebanon a meeting between the leader of Hamas the Palestinian group ruling Gaza and the leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement that has political power there.
Ismail Haniyeh and Hassan Nasrallah affirming their commitment to the 'axis of resistance' against Israel...AFP FRANCE-AL ARABIYA
Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this evening to discuss security issues.
Hundreds of youths barricading themselves in the Al Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount Saturday night.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that French President Emmanuel Macron's recent comments about nuclear weapons being stationed outside of national borders is a 'fierce criticism' of the United States.
Macron spoke during his visit to China referencing the decision that Russian nuclear weapons will stationed in Belarus. He said such a move by Russia is "incompatible" with international law.
In announcing the nuclear deployment in Belarus Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the US has deployed nuclear weapons in European countries for decades...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
In Berlin thousands rallied and marched this weekend opposing German involvement in The Ukraine War...VIDEO LINK
THE UKRAINE WAR
RUSSIAN FORCES CLAIM SUCCESS IN STOPPING UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says that Chechen forces have disrupted Ukrainian offensive efforts in the Zaporozhye Region...TASS RUSSIA
The top Russian official in Crimea says that a missile launched from Ukraine and was intercepted off the eastern coast.
Sergey Aksyonov saying fragments of the downed missile caused no damage when they landed in a settled area...TASS RUSSIA
In other news....
Troubles for the ruling party in Scotland.
The president of the Scottish National Party Mike Russell says the party is in its worst crisis in 50 years.
Last Wednesday police raiding the home of former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon who suddenly resigned two months ago. They arrested her husband Peter Murrell and released him later.
There is a probe into how hundreds of thousands of pounds was spent by the party. The party's auditing firm resigning...THE NATIONAL UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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