Sunday, June 25, 2023

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 6/25/2023 NEWSDUMP WEEKEND ANTI-UKRAINE WAR PARTY WINS GERMAN RUNOFF ELECTION, RUSSIA HITS JIHADISTS IN NORTHWESTERN SYRIA, NETANYAHU ATTACKS 'FAR-RIGHT' CABINET MINISTER, JEWISH RETALIATION ATTACKS FOR TERRORISM CALLED TERRORISM BY ISRAELI LEADERS

 



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Russia says it's repelling repeated Ukrainian attacks this weekend and the winner of the second Greek election in a month but first...






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GERMAN POLITICS AND A RUNOFF ELECTION VICTORY FOR THE ANTI-UKRAINE WAR ALTERNATIVE FOR GERMANY (AfD).



ROBERT SESSELMAN THE WINNER OF AN ELECTION FOR A DISTRICT ADMINSTRATOR IN THE TOWN OF SONNEBERG IN THE EASTERN GERMAN STATE OF THURINGIA.



THE PARTY IS COMMONLY LABELED 'FAR-RIGHT' BUT THE UNPOPULARITY OF THE UKRAINE WAR AND TROUBLES IN GERMANY'S ECONOMY INCLUDING INFLATION ARE DRIVING MORE VOTERS TO SUPPORT THE AfD WHICH IS SURGING IN PUBLIC OPINION POLLS...(News Agencies)





"hiding behind their verbal demagoguery about their neutrality...actively forges relations with the Russian Federation"



That criticism of Israel from Ukraine's Embassy there drawing a rebuke from Israel's Foreign Ministry.




The Ukrainian criticism follows a Jerusalem Post interview where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Western anti-tank weapons sent to Ukraine are now in the hands of Iranian forces on Israel's border...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




JIHADISTS IN SYRIA LAUNCHING A ROCKET STRIKE NEAR A RUSSIAN MILITARY BASE.    


THIS FOLLOWS RUSSIAN AIRSTRIKES ON JIHADIST FORCES IN THE IDLIB REGION OF NORTHEWESTERN SYRIA MENTIONED LATER IN THIS SUMMARY...TASS RUSSIA




More than 50 detained in Istanbul following an LGBT Pride March.  


Hundreds participated as police blocked access to a main street and square in the city.



One of those detained by police said to have suffered head injuries.



Organizers say the LGBT community is being targeted by the recently re-elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...REUTERS-GLOBE AND MAIL CANADA





TODAY RUSSIAN AIR STRIKES IN THE JIHADIST ENCLAVE OF IDLIB IN NORTHWESTERN SYRIA.



MILITANT SYRIAN OPPOSITION SOURCES (WHITE HELMETS) SAY AT LEAST NINE CIVILIANS KILLED AND 34 OTHERS WOUNDED.


LATER REPORTING IS THAT 13 WERE KILLED...AL JAZEERA QATAR





Afghanistan's Supreme Leader defending his country's policies towards women.



In a statement for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha this week Hibatullah Akhundzada says policies removing women from public life including workplaces saves women from "traditional oppressions" and restores their status as "free and dignified human beings".



He said that a six point decree issued by the ruling Taliban in December of 2021 guarantees women's rights by making forced marriages illegal and allowing the right to inheritance and divorce.



Western nations and the United Nations have criticized the Taliban saying their policies discriminate against women by denying them access to education and jobs...AFP FRANCE-THE RAW STORY




IN SWEDEN ONE KILLED AND NINE INJURED IN A ROLLER COASTER ACCIDENT.    IT HAPPENED AT THE GRONA LUND AMUSEMENT PARK IN STOCKHOLM.


THE PARK WILL BE CLOSED FOR AT LEAST A WEEK AS INVESTIGATIONS ARE UNDERWAY...SVT NEWS SWEDEN (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




"I gave the Netanyahus cigars, champagne"



Testimony at the corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from star witness Arnon Milchan...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS








TODAY ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ATTACKED HIS 'FAR-RIGHT' NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER ITAMAR BEN GVIR.


SPEAKING AT THE CABINET MEETING NETANYAHU DISCUSSED THE CALL BY MR. BEN GVIR FOR JEWS TO MOVE ONTO LAND IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA (THE WEST BANK).



HE SAID:




   "Such statements undermine law and order...we will not condone such actions and our government will act firmly against them"...



                     ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



In Israel the military Chief of Staff, the head of the domestic security agency Shin Bet and the police commissioner all condemning Jewish attacks on Palestinians in retaliation for the gasoline station terrorist attack that killed four and wounded others.


The called the attacks of the Jews "terrorism"...TIMES OF ISRAEL...


Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also joining the chorus of condemnation.



Not joining them National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.



On Friday Ben Gvir called on Jews to take to the hills to establish new settlements and called for a full scale military offensive against terrorism in Judea and Samaria (The West Bank)...


On Saturday night both Mr. Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionism Party rejected any notion of equivalency between Palestinian acts of terrorism and Jewish retaliation for them...TIMES OF ISRAEL




US JOINT CHIEFS' CHAIRMAN GENERAL MARK MILLEY CANCELLING A PLANNED VISIT TO ISRAEL THIS WEEK.


HIS PLANNED MEETING SAID TO HAVE BEEN ONE DEALING WITH IRAN...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS





ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU'S OFFICE SAYS THERE'S A ONE-WEEK HALT IN THE CONTROVERSIAL WIND FARM PROJECT IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.




THE AREA IS POPULATED BY DRUZE WHO HAVE TRADITIONALLY CULTIVATED OLIVE TREES WHERE THE WIND TURBINES ARE NOW BEING ERECTED.



JUST DAYS AGO MORE THAN A DOZEN HURT IN CLASHES BETWEEN THE DRUZE AND ISRAELI POLICE.


 THE DRUZE SPIRITUAL LEADER PLEDGING A MAJOR RESPONSE 'THAT ISRAEL HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE' UNLESS THE PROJECT STOPS...TIMES OF ISRAEL...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS





A calm situation in Russia now following the negotiated end to the mutiny of Wagner Private Military Contractor fighters.



A Wagner convoy leaving the southern Russian city of Rostov late Saturday night....TASS RUSSIA...



A chronicle of Saturday's events from the RIA Novosti News Agency in Russia...RIA NOVOSTI AGENCY RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





IT'S ELECTION DAY IN GREECE A NEW ELECTION CALLED FOLLOWING LAST MONTH'S VOTE.


 THE NEW DEMOCRACY PARTY OF THE RIGHT HOPING A QUICK SECOND ELECTION WILL PUT IT OVER THE TOP WITH A MAJORITY OF THE 300 SEATS IN PARLIAMENT.


THE RESULTS TONIGHT GIVING PRIME MINISTER KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS A MAJORITY.


WITH NEARLY 100 PERCENT OF THE VOTE COUNTED NEW DEMOCRACY AT 158 SEATS.


A NEW NATIONALIST PARTY 'SPARTANS' GETTING 12 SEATS...WIKIPEDIA JUNE 2023 GREEK ELECTION



A US intelligence report put out on Friday saying there's no "direct evidence" of COVID-19 originating at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology.


But the report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says it has not been ruled out that COVID originated in a laboratory.



It is also said the origins of COVID have not yet been determined...INDIA TODAY







  THE URKAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA





    NUMEROUS UKRAINIAN ATTACKS REPULSED





RUSSIA DOWNS DRONE IN SOUTHWESTERN REGION




RUSSIAN ATTACK HELICOPTERS STRIKE UKRAINIAN BRIGADES





                TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED




The Russian Defense Ministry says that numerous Ukrainian attacks have been repulsed this weekend on various sectors of the front.



Ten of those attacks in the Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) area...TASS RUSSIA




Russian air defenses took down a drone in the southwestern Belgorod Region today...TASS RUSSIA




Russian attack helicopters hit two Ukrainian brigades with 11 missiles strikes in some of the latest action on the battle front...TASS RUSSIA




In other news...




SARAH FERGUSON, THE DUCHESS OF YORK AND FORMER WIFE OF BRITAIN'S PRINCE ANDREW, RECOVERING AFTER SURGERY.



FERGUSON UNDERWENT SURGERY AFTER SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER...BBC NEWS






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