NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 4/20/2023 US TROOPS MOVING TO AFRICA FOR POSSIBLE SUDAN EVACAUTION, NATO CHIEF SAYS UKRAINE BELONGS IN ALLIANCE, BIDEN SENDING SANCTIONS EASING MESSAGE TO VENEZUELA
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The US moves troops to Africa to help an evacuation from Sudan but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
THE US NAVY DENYING AN IRANIAN REPORT THAT ONE OF IRAN'S SUBMARINES FORCED A US SUBMARINE TO SURFACE IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ...PRESS TV IRAN...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Four are reported missing after a Russian fishing vessel caught fire off the coast of South Korea...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
BLASTS TONIGHT INJURING TWO IN THE SOUTHWESTERN RUSSIAN OF BELGOROD NEAR THE BORDER WITH UKRAINE.
Criminal charges against actor Alec Baldwin over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a New Mexico movie set in 2021 dropped.
Baldwin was facing two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting that killed Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer for the film, still faces the same charges. Her lawyer says she will plead not guilty at trial not knowing how live rounds got into the firearm used on the movie set...ANI NEWS INDIA
JOE BIDEN PLEDGING 500 MILLION DOLLARS TO THE 'AMAZON FUND' TO PROTECT RAINFORESTS FROM DEFORESTATION...CNN
"The House just passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act to ensure Title IX is protecting real women!!"-
PART OF TWEET FROM REPRESENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA)-LINK...
Politics in the USA the Republican controlled US House passing legislation to protect the integrity of female athletic competitions in federally funded schools.
The proposal described by Democrats and Mainstream Media as a ban on transgender participation in sports...(News Agencies)
The Russian FSB security agency says its detained an Islamic State supporter in southern Russia planning a terrorist attack.
The FSB saying they confiscated components to be used in an attack on a "public facility"...TASS RUSSIA
AN INDIAN COURT ACQUTTING 69 HINDUS OF MURDER IN RIOTING THAT KILLED 11 MUSLIMS IN 2002.
ONE OF THOSE ACQUITTED A FORMER CABINET MINISTER FROM INDIA'S RULING BJP PARTY...REUTERS-TRT WORLD TURKIYE
Politics in the USA and a federal appeals court stopping the investigation into Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of President Trump.
The Second US Circuit Court issuing an administrative stay to allow a three-judge panel to hear arguments over the Republican-led US House Judiciary Committee's subpoena for a former prosecutor to testify...ASSOCIATED PRESS-GLOBE AND MAIL CANADA
The markets today the Dow down 110.39 points.
The NASDAQ falling 97.67 points.
The price of oil at 5 pm New York time 77 dollars and 29 cents a barrel down one dollar and 87 cents...MARKETWATCH
IN FRANCE TODAY RAILROAD WORKERS PROTESTING FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON OVER HIS IMPOSITION OF PENSION REFORM...THE INDEPENDENT-UK
PROTESTS IN PARIS AND OTHER CITIES TODAY....
AHEAD OF A VISIT TO THE HERAULT REGION BY MACRON LOCAL AUTHORITIES BANNED THE USE OF 'PORTABLE SOUND DEVICES' AN MOVE TO SHUT DOWN ANY POTS AND PANS PROTESTS LIKE THE ONES IN RECENT DAYS OPPOSING MACRON.
MACRON ANNOUNCNG MORE MONEY FOR TEACHERS AND TELLING ONE OPPONENT IN THE CROWD WHO QUESTIONED HIM THAT HE WILL NOT RESIGN...(BFM-TV France)
In New Zealand reaction to an Independent Police Conduct Authority report on last year's mass protest against COVID mandates including forced vaccination.
Police ended up cracking down on the protest near the country's parliament building in Wellington.
The Labor Party government's Police Minister Ginny Anderson reacting positively to the report while opposition politician David Seymour of the ACT Party spoke of "ugly acts on all sides" of the protest.
Seymour, who urged Kiwis to get vaccinated in blunt language during the COVID situation ("Don't be a *ickhead, get vaxxed"), now saying vaccination policy was "needlessly inflexible" leading to the protest in the nations capital city...
BREAKING NEWS SUDAN CONFLICT:
A US OFFICIAL SAYS PREPARATIONS ARE UNDERWAY TO DEPLOY A LARGE NUMBER OF US TROOPS TO THE MILITARY BASE IN DJIBOUTI IN NORTHESTERN AFRICA TO ASSIST WITH FOREIGN CIVILIAN EVACUATION FROM SUDAN...REUTERS-AL ARABIYA...THE PENTAGON CONFIRMED LATER IN THE DAY THE MOVEMENT OF THOSE TROOPS IS UNDERWAY
A sixth day of fighting between the military and paramilitary forces in Sudan. A cease-fire declared last evening has broken down...AL JAZEERA QATAR BLOG....
Looting was also reported in the capital city of Khartoum...TASS RUSSIA
AT LEAST 85 DEAD (LATE NEWS REPORTS) AND DOZENS OF OTHERS INJURED IN A STAMPEDE IN YEMEN.
A CROWD SEEKING RELIEF AID IN THE COUNTRY TORN BY A CIVIL WAR STARTLED BY SHOTS FIRED IN THE AIR AND A RESULTING ELECTRICAL WIRE EXPLOSION...ASSOCIATED PRESS-GLOBAL NEWS CANADA
(Updated) Joe Biden wants to further ease sanctions on the Leftist regime in oil rich Venezuela.
Biden meeting the Leftist President of Colombia Gustavo Petro at the White House today to convey that message.
Biden setting the condition that there be 'concrete steps toward free elections'.
At the meeting today the Colombian President pushing for the lifting of sanctions and speaking of an international meeting with Venezuela to offer sanctions relief in exchange for moves towards new elections. That meeting to be held in Colombia next week.
Biden's move follows the visit this week to Venezuela by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...REUTERS
THE UKRAINE WAR
DEFIANT NATO CHIEF SAYS UKRAINE'S 'RIGHTFUL PLACE' IS IN NATO
FLASHES OF LIGHT OVER KIEV APPEAR TO BE THE FALL OF A US SATELLITE
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg defiantly declaring that Ukraine's 'rightful place' is in NATO.
Stoltenberg spoke during a visit to Kiev.
Russia has defined prevention of Ukraine's membership in NATO as a purpose for it's military operations in Ukraine...ASSOCIATED PRESS USA
The US Space Command confirming that a US satellite "deorbited" after three flashes of light were seen over Kiev last night...TASS RUSSIA
In other news...
Today's Space X launch in southern Texas successful at liftoff but four minutes into the flight a mission ending explosion.
Space X boss Elon Musk said there was a 50 percent chance of explosion after liftoff saying getting the rocket off the launch pad would be defined as success...FREE REPUBLIC POST-DAILY MAIL STORY-DISCUSSION
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