Monday, May 22, 2023

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 5/22/2023 VOLCANO EVAC ALERT IN MEXICO, THIRD PLACE CANDIDATE ENDORSES ERDOGAN IN TURKISH ELECTION, UKRAINIAN ATTACKS IN RUSSIA'S BELGOROD REGION, CHINA SLAMS 'RUDE INTERFERENCE' AT G7 SUMMIT

 



                               (SERVICE THROUGH MONDAY EVENING WHEN ABLE)




                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:



Word from Australia that the New South Wales Police have suspended the officer who tased a 95-year old woman at an aged care facility last Wednesday.


Clare Nowland now in palliative end of life care after the incident.



She was approaching police using a walker and holding a serrated steak knife when she was tased.


Police refusing to release body cam footage of the incident...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND




AIR RAID ALERTS IN SIX REGIONS OF UKRAINE EARLY THURSDAY MORNING...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





In Mexico millions of people are on alert for evacuation due to volcanic activity.



The Popocatepetl volcano 45 miles southeast of Mexico City is spewing ash.    


It's already causing problems for airline flights using Mexico City.



Some three million people in towns and villages near the volcano have been told to prepare for a possible evacuation...CNN





IN WASHINGTON DC THE TALKS BETWEEN JOE BIDEN AND KEVIN MCCARTHY ON REACHING A DEAL TO INCREASE THE US DEBT CEILING.



THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SIGNALING THE NOTION THAT THE FEDERAL GOV'T WON'T BE ABLE TO MEET ITS FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS WITHIN DAYS.




SPEAKER MCCARTHY EXPRESSING OPTIMISM THAT AN AGREEMENT CAN BE REACHED...(News Agencies)





Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cutting a spending deal with the "far-right" National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir tonight.



It clears a pathway to a new budget in Israel as the Knesset (Parliament) takes up the issue this week...TIMES OF ISRAEL




"the political weaponization of the FBI to destroy a political candidate and then a sitting President"



Politics in the USA and Democrat Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with that comment and more regarding the Durham Report about the false allegation of President Trump colluding with Russia...



                    ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TWITTER




THE THIRD PLACE CANDIDATE IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THROWING HIS SUPPORT BEHIND INCUMBENT PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN.



SINAN OGAN SAYING HE HOPES HIS DECISION TO ENDORSE ERDOGAN IN THE SECOND ROUND VOTING NEXT SUNDAY:




"will be beneficial to the great Turkish nation"...




       TRT NEWS TURKIYE (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





In Bulgaria two political parties agreeing to form a coalition government following the recent election.


The "Center-Right" GERB party joining an anti-corruption party in a government that will include rotating Prime Ministers...POLITICO EU




The markets today.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 140.05 points.


The NASDAQ up 62.88 points.


The price of oil moving up today 26 cents a barrel at 71 dollars and 81 cents...MARKETWATCH




The Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan saying that his government is willing to recognize Azerbaijan's sovereignty over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.   


That region has been in dispute including armed conflict between the two countries.



Armenia and Azerbaijan are moving towards the signing of a peace agreement.


Mr. Pashinyan saying that he is seeking security guarantees for Armenians in the territory...REUTERS-AL ARABIYA...TASS RUSSIA



19 students dead in dormitory fire at a school in Guyana.   Others injured in the blaze.   The fire at a school for indigenous children...LBC NEWS UK



China telling Japan's ambassador that it was:



                 "smeared and lambasted"




at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan over the weekend.



Deputy Foreign Minister Sun Weidong noting that matters involving Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet and the Uyghur Muslims of the Xinjiang Region brought up at the G7 were:



                    "rude interference"



in China's internal affairs.   


He also said that China is not involved in the "economic coercion" alleged by the G7 involving nations obtaining loans from China...TASS RUSSIA




AT LEAST THREE REPORTED KILLED IN AN EARLY MORNING ANTI-TERRORISM RAID BY ISRAEL SECURITY FORCES AT A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP....TIMES OF ISRAEL




The Biden Administration condemning the decision to allow Jews into the community of Homesh in the "West Bank".



The US State Department statement also condemning the visit of Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to the Temple Mount on Sunday...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS





   THE URKAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA




UKRAINIAN INFILTRATION LEADS TO INJURIES AND COUNTER-TERROR OPERATION IN BELGOROD REGION OF RUSSIA




INJURIES REPORTED WHEN REGION IN RUSSIA ON UKRAINE'S NORTHEASTRERN BORDER SHELLED





 RUSSIA CLAIMS SUCCESSFUL STRIKE ON AIRFIELD 




                  TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED





Eight people hurt when Ukrainian "saboteurs" entered the Belgorod Region of Russia.    A counter-terrorism operation now reported underway...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...



The response from Ukraine includes a narrative spread by some mainstream media of a "resistance movement" in Russia...(CBC News Canada News on the Hour 8 pm Eastern US Time)



The governor of Russia's Belgorod Region, which is on the northeastern border of Ukraine, says that three people were wounded in Ukrainian shelling today...TASS RUSSIA




Russia says an attack on an the Dnieper airfield was successful destroying aircraft and ammunition...TASS RUSSIA




In other news....





Meta, the parent company of Facebook, fined 1.2 billion Euros (1.3 billion Dollars) by the European Union.



The fine imposed for transferring data on European Facebook users to servers in the United States...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)














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