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Eight dead in southern Texas after a car runs into pedestrians and the mass murder attack at an open air mall in suburban Dallas but first...

LATE NEWS TONIGHT:

IN THE VOTE ON CHILE'S NEW CONSTITUTION THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM WON THE MAJORITY IN THE ELECTION FOR A 50-MEMBER COMMISSION TO DRAFT A NEW CONSTITUTION.

THE VOTE CAME AT A TIME WHEN LEFTIST PRESIDENT GABRIEL BORIC HAS LOW APPROVAL RATINGS OF AROUND 30 PERCENT.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF JOSE ANTONIO KAST WON 35 PERCRNT OF THE VOTE IN TODAY'S ELECTION. IT IS FIRMLY OPPOSED TO CHANGING CHILE'S CURRENT CONSTITUTION WHICH ORIGINATED DURING THE RULE OF ANTI-COMMUNIST GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET...ASSOCIATED PRESS

Talks in Saudi Arabia between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.

They amidst tensions in US-Saudi relations.

Also involved National Security Advisers from India and the United Arab Emirates.

Israel may also be a player in the background of these talks which were designed to create a common ground for infrastructure development between India, Saudi Arabia and the UAE...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...TASS RUSSIA

AIR RAID ALERTS ACROSS SEVERAL REGIONS OF UKRAINE TONIGHT...(RIA Novosti Russia)

AT LEAST 27 KILLED IN A GOLD MINE FIRE IN PERU.

FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS ARE QUESTIONING THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO THE DISASTER.

AUTHORITIES SAY THE REMOTENESS OF THE LOCATION HAMPERED THEIR EFFORTS...BBC NEWS

A state of emergency in the Kurgan Region of southwestern Siberia because of raging wildfires...TASS RUSSIA

US TREASURY SECRETARY JANET YELLEN BROACHING THE NOTION OF A 'CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS' IN THE USA OVER THE DEBT CEILING.

YELLEN TELLING ABC NEWS TODAY THAT A 'BAD OPTION' IS JOE BIDEN INVOKING THE 14TH AMENDMENT OF US CONSTITITION TO CONTINUE BORROWING OF MONEY WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL...ABC NEWS USA

(UPDATED) EIGHT ARE DEAD AFTER A CAR RAN INTO PEDESTRIANS IN BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS THIS MORNING.

THE INCIDENT OUTSIDE A SHELTER FOR MIGRANTS.

10 OTHERS INJURED.

A SUSPECT IN CUSTODY.

ACCORDING TO POLICE THE INDIVIDUAL NOT CONSIDERED COOPERATIVE GIVING SEVERAL DIFFERENT NAMES.

THE LATEST IS THAT POLICE ARE NOT SURE IF THIS ACT WAS DELIBERATE.

A POLICE INVESTIGATOR TELLING LOCAL MEDIA THREE POSSIBILITIES.

ONE INTOXICATION, TWO ACCIDENTIAL, THREE DELIBERATE...VALLEY CENTRAL-KGBT 4

The Arab League bringing Syria back into its ranks. Syria was suspended during the civil war in the country that began in 2011.

The Arab League set to hold a summit on May 19th the hopes expressed of an "Arab-led" solution to the Syrian conflict...AL JAZEERA QATAR

A GOVERNMENT SHAKEUP IN THE EASTERN EUROPEAN NATION OF SLOVAKIA TODAY.

THE DEPUTY HEAD OF SLOVAKIA'S CENTRAL BANK LUDOVIT ODOR IS NOW PRIME MINISTER LEADING A 'TECHOCRATIC GOVERNMENT'.

THIS FOLLOWS THE COLLAPSE OF A CENTER-RIGHT GOVERNMENT LED BY EDUARD HEGER AMIDST SERIOUS ECONOMIC TURMOIL IN THE COUNTRY...BNE INTELLINEWS

IN THE NATION SANDWICHED BETWEEN ROMANIA AND UKRAINE WITH A LARGE RUSSIAN MINORITY POPULATION, PROTEST TODAY.

THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATNG IN CHISINAU THE CAPITAL CITY OF MOLDOVA OBJECTING TO THE GOVERNMENT EMPHASIZING ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS IN THE COUNTRY.

SOME HIGHWAYS REPORTED BLOCKED DURING THE DEMONSTRATIONS...VIDEO LINK...TASS RUSSIA

(Updated) Israeli politics and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of the "Jewish Strength" faction boycotting the cabinet meeting today.

Ben Gvir objecting to returning the bodies of terrorists killed by Israeli security forces...TIMES OF ISRAEL...

Mr. Ben Gvir tonight asking for inclusion in the sensitive discussions of Israel's security cabinet and a roundup of illegal firearms in Judea and Samaria...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

Politics here in the USA a poll from ABC News and the Washington Post shows Joe Biden losing to either President Donald Trump or Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Trump wins 45 to 39 percent and DeSantis wins 44 to 38 percent.

That poll also shows 56 percent disapproving of Joe Biden's performance and 39 percent supporting it...REAL CLEAR POLITICS LATEST POLLS

IN FRANCE THIS EVENING A PROTEST IN PARIS OUTSIDE THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE 'RENAISSANCE' PARTY OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON...

MEANWILE THE CGT LABOR UNION APPEALING A BAN ON PROTEST IN LYON TOMORROW WHERE PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON IS TO APPEAR.

THE GOVERNMENT OF MACRON DEMONIZING THE NOTION OF PROTESTS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT ON TOMORROW'S ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEFEAT OF NAZI GERMANY IN WORLD WAR II.

ECONOMY MINISTER BRUNO LE MAIRE CLAIMING THAT THE DAY SHOULD BE ONE OF 'NATIONAL UNITY'...

(Information From BFM-TV France Used For This Story)

"Responsibility for this and other terrorist acts lies not only with the Ukrainian authorities, but with their Western patrons, in the first place, the United States..."

That is part of a statement from Russia's Foreign Ministry this weekend on the roadside bomb attack that killed a driver and wounded Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin.

A suspect taken into custody Russian authorities say he confessed to working for Ukraine...

TASS RUSSIA

RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...

The International Atomic Energy Agency expressing concern over the situation around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant as Russia stages a mass evacuation in the area due to Ukrainian shelling...AFP FRANCE-MALAY MAIL

AFTER SENDING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF US MILITARY WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION FROM EXISTING US STOCKPILES TO UKRAINE THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PREPARING TO DO THE SAME FOR TAIWAN.

"BLOOMBERG" REPORTING ABOUT PLANS TO DRAIN US MILITARY STOCKPILES OF 500 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION FOR TAIWAN...BLOOMBERG...

Meanwhile China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson decrying a delegation of US arms dealers who held a 'defense forum' in Taiwan.

Mao Ning saying that Taiwan is being turned into a "powder keg".

She adds that any arms sales to Taiwan violate the principle of One China the US has acknowledged in the past meaning the notion that Taiwan is part of China and the US would not have any defense relations with the Chinese province...

XINHUA NEWS AGENCY CHINA (USE ADVANCED SETTING TO GET STORY)

Mexico's President says there's proof that illegal shipments of the opioid fentanyl are arriving in Mexico from China.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he will ask China to help stop fentanyl shipments to Mexico.

Earlier this year at the urging of US lawmakers President Obrador wrote to President Xi Jinping regarding fentanyl which is leaving ports in eastern China enroute to Mexico...BBC NEWS

AN AUSTRALIAN MIGRATION AGENT SAYS REFUSALS OF TOURIST VISAS FOR CHINESE CITIZENS IS UP 30 TO 50 PERCENT SINCE AUSTRALIA'S POST COVID REOPENING.

STORIES ARE CIRCULATING IN CHINA OF VISA REFUSALS FROM AUSTRALIA CAUSING SOME TO SKIP APPLYING TO FOR A VISA TO VISIT AUSTRALIA AS TOURISTS.

SOME SAY THE REFUSALS ARE LINKED TO THE NOTION THAT PEOPLE USING TOURIST VISAS MAY STAY IN AUSTRALIA AND SEEK EMPLOYMENT...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA

A MASS MURDER ATTACK KILLED EIGHT PEOPLE AT AN OPEN AIR MALL IN ALLEN, TEXAS A SUBURB NORTHEAST OF DALLAS.

SEVEN WOUNDED IN THE ATTACK.

THE ATTACKER IS DEAD....

KDFW FOX 4 DALLAS (VIDEO EMBED)

In Alberta, Canada tens of thousands evacuated as wildfires rage. A provincial state of emergency declared by Premier Danielle Smith...GLOBAL NEWS CANADA (VIDEO EMBED)

Iran executed a Swedish-Iranian national for involvement in bomb attacks including a deadly blast at a military parade that killed 25 in the southern region of Khuzestan in 2018.

The Iranians say that Habib Chaab operated under the direction of foreign intelligence agencies including Israel's Mossad...TIMES OF ISRAEL

LATEST REPORTS FROM THE NORTHEASTERN INDIAN STATE OF MANIPUR SAY AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN VIOLENCE BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT LIVE THERE.

CHURCHES, TEMPLES AND VEHICLES ATTACKED THE GOVERNMENT SHUTTING DOWN THE INTERNET AND SENDING IN THOUSANDS OF TROOPS.

THERE ARE ALLEGATIONS THAT THE RULING HINDU NATIONALIST BJP PARTY IS DOING ENOUGH TO STOP THE VIOLENCE...BBC NEWS

THE UKRAINE WAR

NIGHTTIME UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK ON SEVASTOPOL

BALLISTIC MISSILES FROM UKRAINE SHOT DOWN OVER CRIMEA

TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED

A nighttime drone attack on Sevastopol in Crimea Russian defenses taking down or deflecting three drones...TASS RUSSIA...More than a dozen Ukrainian drones said to be involved in the attack...(RIA Novosti)

Earlier Russian air defenses took down two Ukrainian ballistic missiles over Crimea on Saturday...TASS RUSSIA

In other news...

A police crackdown in London accompanied the coronation of King Charles III this weekend.

52 arrests made some people including a leader of the opposition to the monarchy pre-emptively arrested by police before they began.

Authorities claiming they had advance word of plans to disrupt the coronation...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

Sunday, May 7, 2023

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 5/7/2023 NEWSDUMP WEEKEND TALK OF US CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OVER DEBT CEILING, UKRAINE, US BLAMED FOR TERRORIST ATTACK IN RUSSIA, BIDEN PUTTING WEAPONS FOR TAIWAN ON FAST TRACK, DOZENS ARRESTED PROTESTING KING CHARLES CORONATION

Eight dead in southern Texas after a car runs into pedestrians and the mass murder attack at an open air mall in suburban Dallas but first...

LATE NEWS TONIGHT:

IN THE VOTE ON CHILE'S NEW CONSTITUTION THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM WON THE MAJORITY IN THE ELECTION FOR A 50-MEMBER COMMISSION TO DRAFT A NEW CONSTITUTION.

THE VOTE CAME AT A TIME WHEN LEFTIST PRESIDENT GABRIEL BORIC HAS LOW APPROVAL RATINGS OF AROUND 30 PERCENT.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF JOSE ANTONIO KAST WON 35 PERCRNT OF THE VOTE IN TODAY'S ELECTION. IT IS FIRMLY OPPOSED TO CHANGING CHILE'S CURRENT CONSTITUTION WHICH ORIGINATED DURING THE RULE OF ANTI-COMMUNIST GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET...ASSOCIATED PRESS

Talks in Saudi Arabia between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.

They amidst tensions in US-Saudi relations.

Also involved National Security Advisers from India and the United Arab Emirates.

Israel may also be a player in the background of these talks which were designed to create a common ground for infrastructure development between India, Saudi Arabia and the UAE...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...TASS RUSSIA

AIR RAID ALERTS ACROSS SEVERAL REGIONS OF UKRAINE TONIGHT...(RIA Novosti Russia)

AT LEAST 27 KILLED IN A GOLD MINE FIRE IN PERU.

FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS ARE QUESTIONING THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO THE DISASTER.

AUTHORITIES SAY THE REMOTENESS OF THE LOCATION HAMPERED THEIR EFFORTS...BBC NEWS

A state of emergency in the Kurgan Region of southwestern Siberia because of raging wildfires...TASS RUSSIA

US TREASURY SECRETARY JANET YELLEN BROACHING THE NOTION OF A 'CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS' IN THE USA OVER THE DEBT CEILING.

YELLEN TELLING ABC NEWS TODAY THAT A 'BAD OPTION' IS JOE BIDEN INVOKING THE 14TH AMENDMENT OF US CONSTITITION TO CONTINUE BORROWING OF MONEY WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL...ABC NEWS USA

(UPDATED) EIGHT ARE DEAD AFTER A CAR RAN INTO PEDESTRIANS IN BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS THIS MORNING.

THE INCIDENT OUTSIDE A SHELTER FOR MIGRANTS.

10 OTHERS INJURED.

A SUSPECT IN CUSTODY.

ACCORDING TO POLICE THE INDIVIDUAL NOT CONSIDERED COOPERATIVE GIVING SEVERAL DIFFERENT NAMES.

THE LATEST IS THAT POLICE ARE NOT SURE IF THIS ACT WAS DELIBERATE.

A POLICE INVESTIGATOR TELLING LOCAL MEDIA THREE POSSIBILITIES.

ONE INTOXICATION, TWO ACCIDENTIAL, THREE DELIBERATE...VALLEY CENTRAL-KGBT 4

The Arab League bringing Syria back into its ranks. Syria was suspended during the civil war in the country that began in 2011.

The Arab League set to hold a summit on May 19th the hopes expressed of an "Arab-led" solution to the Syrian conflict...AL JAZEERA QATAR

A GOVERNMENT SHAKEUP IN THE EASTERN EUROPEAN NATION OF SLOVAKIA TODAY.

THE DEPUTY HEAD OF SLOVAKIA'S CENTRAL BANK LUDOVIT ODOR IS NOW PRIME MINISTER LEADING A 'TECHOCRATIC GOVERNMENT'.

THIS FOLLOWS THE COLLAPSE OF A CENTER-RIGHT GOVERNMENT LED BY EDUARD HEGER AMIDST SERIOUS ECONOMIC TURMOIL IN THE COUNTRY...BNE INTELLINEWS

IN THE NATION SANDWICHED BETWEEN ROMANIA AND UKRAINE WITH A LARGE RUSSIAN MINORITY POPULATION, PROTEST TODAY.

THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATNG IN CHISINAU THE CAPITAL CITY OF MOLDOVA OBJECTING TO THE GOVERNMENT EMPHASIZING ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS IN THE COUNTRY.

SOME HIGHWAYS REPORTED BLOCKED DURING THE DEMONSTRATIONS...VIDEO LINK...TASS RUSSIA

(Updated) Israeli politics and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of the "Jewish Strength" faction boycotting the cabinet meeting today.

Ben Gvir objecting to returning the bodies of terrorists killed by Israeli security forces...TIMES OF ISRAEL...

Mr. Ben Gvir tonight asking for inclusion in the sensitive discussions of Israel's security cabinet and a roundup of illegal firearms in Judea and Samaria...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

Politics here in the USA a poll from ABC News and the Washington Post shows Joe Biden losing to either President Donald Trump or Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Trump wins 45 to 39 percent and DeSantis wins 44 to 38 percent.

That poll also shows 56 percent disapproving of Joe Biden's performance and 39 percent supporting it...REAL CLEAR POLITICS LATEST POLLS

IN FRANCE THIS EVENING A PROTEST IN PARIS OUTSIDE THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE 'RENAISSANCE' PARTY OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON...

MEANWILE THE CGT LABOR UNION APPEALING A BAN ON PROTEST IN LYON TOMORROW WHERE PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON IS TO APPEAR.

THE GOVERNMENT OF MACRON DEMONIZING THE NOTION OF PROTESTS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT ON TOMORROW'S ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEFEAT OF NAZI GERMANY IN WORLD WAR II.

ECONOMY MINISTER BRUNO LE MAIRE CLAIMING THAT THE DAY SHOULD BE ONE OF 'NATIONAL UNITY'...

(Information From BFM-TV France Used For This Story)

"Responsibility for this and other terrorist acts lies not only with the Ukrainian authorities, but with their Western patrons, in the first place, the United States..."

That is part of a statement from Russia's Foreign Ministry this weekend on the roadside bomb attack that killed a driver and wounded Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin.

A suspect taken into custody Russian authorities say he confessed to working for Ukraine...

TASS RUSSIA

RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...

The International Atomic Energy Agency expressing concern over the situation around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant as Russia stages a mass evacuation in the area due to Ukrainian shelling...AFP FRANCE-MALAY MAIL

More on the Ukraine War later in the summary...

AFTER SENDING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF US MILITARY WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION FROM EXISTING US STOCKPILES TO UKRAINE THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PREPARING TO DO THE SAME FOR TAIWAN.

"BLOOMBERG" REPORTING ABOUT PLANS TO DRAIN US MILITARY STOCKPILES OF 500 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION FOR TAIWAN...BLOOMBERG...

Meanwhile China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson decrying a delegation of US arms dealers who held a 'defense forum' in Taiwan.

Mao Ning saying that Taiwan is being turned into a "powder keg".

She adds that any arms sales to Taiwan violate the principle of One China the US has acknowledged in the past meaning the notion that Taiwan is part of China and the US would not have any defense relations with the Chinese province...

XINHUA NEWS AGENCY CHINA (USE ADVANCED SETTING TO GET STORY)

Mexico's President says there's proof that illegal shipments of the opioid fentanyl are arriving in Mexico from China.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he will ask China to help stop fentanyl shipments to Mexico.

Earlier this year at the urging of US lawmakers President Obrador wrote to President Xi Jinping regarding fentanyl which is leaving ports in eastern China enroute to Mexico...BBC NEWS

AN AUSTRALIAN MIGRATION AGENT SAYS REFUSALS OF TOURIST VISAS FOR CHINESE CITIZENS IS UP 30 TO 50 PERCENT SINCE AUSTRALIA'S POST COVID REOPENING.

STORIES ARE CIRCULATING IN CHINA OF VISA REFUSALS FROM AUSTRALIA CAUSING SOME TO SKIP APPLYING TO FOR A VISA TO VISIT AUSTRALIA AS TOURISTS.

SOME SAY THE REFUSALS ARE LINKED TO THE NOTION THAT PEOPLE USING TOURIST VISAS MAY STAY IN AUSTRALIA AND SEEK EMPLOYMENT...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA

A MASS MURDER ATTACK KILLED EIGHT PEOPLE AT AN OPEN AIR MALL IN ALLEN, TEXAS A SUBURB NORTHEAST OF DALLAS.

SEVEN WOUNDED IN THE ATTACK.

THE ATTACKER IS DEAD....

KDFW FOX 4 DALLAS (VIDEO EMBED)

In Alberta, Canada tens of thousands evacuated as wildfires rage. A provincial state of emergency declared by Premier Danielle Smith...GLOBAL NEWS CANADA (VIDEO EMBED)

Iran executed a Swedish-Iranian national for involvement in bomb attacks including a deadly blast at a military parade that killed 25 in the southern region of Khuzestan in 2018.

The Iranians say that Habib Chaab operated under the direction of foreign intelligence agencies including Israel's Mossad...TIMES OF ISRAEL

LATEST REPORTS FROM THE NORTHEASTERN INDIAN STATE OF MANIPUR SAY AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN VIOLENCE BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT LIVE THERE.

CHURCHES, TEMPLES AND VEHICLES ATTACKED THE GOVERNMENT SHUTTING DOWN THE INTERNET AND SENDING IN THOUSANDS OF TROOPS.

THERE ARE ALLEGATIONS THAT THE RULING HINDU NATIONALIST BJP PARTY IS DOING ENOUGH TO STOP THE VIOLENCE...BBC NEWS

THE UKRAINE WAR

NIGHTTIME UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK ON SEVASTOPOL

BALLISTIC MISSILES FROM UKRAINE SHOT DOWN OVER CRIMEA

TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED

A nighttime drone attack on Sevastopol in Crimea Russian defenses taking down or deflecting three drones...TASS RUSSIA...More than a dozen Ukrainian drones said to be involved in the attack...(RIA Novosti)

Earlier Russian air defenses took down two Ukrainian ballistic missiles over Crimea on Saturday...TASS RUSSIA