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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
Eight people have been killed in separate car bombing incidents in northern Syria. One blast in the Turkish controlled sector of the northwest killing five and wounding 10 others.
The other blast killed three fighters of the US backed Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces in the city of Manbij...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
UN SECRETARY GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES WARNING THAT SUDAN IS DESCENDING INTO A FULL-SCALE CIVIL WAR.
HIS COMMENTS AFTER NEARLY TWO DOZEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN AN AIRSTRIKE...UPI
A search underway in waters off the Canary Islands in the Eastern Atlantic. A ship carrying some 200 migrants has been missing for more than a week...BBC NEWS
JOE BIDEN PUSHING FOR SWEDISH MEMBERSHIP IN NATO AHEAD OF THE TUESDAY NATO SUMMIT IN LITHUANIA.
BIDEN SPEAKING WITH TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN TODAY.
THEY ALSO DISCUSSED THE GRAIN EXPORT DEAL LINKED TO THE UKRAINE WAR THAT EXPIRES A WEEK FROM MONDAY...TASS RUSSIA
In the southern African nation of Zimbabwe the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change Party banned from holding a pre-election rally.
The opposition says that the ruling ZANU-PF party continues repressive measures that existed in the past under longtime Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe...ASSOCIATED PRESS-VOICE OF AMERICA
IN FRANCE A FIREWORKS BAN IMPOSED FOR THE WEEK OF BASTILLE DAY.
THE SALE, POSESSION AND TRANSPORT OF FIREWORKS BANNED UNTIL NEXT SATURDAY.
THE MOVE IN RESPONSE TO RECENT VIOLENT INCIDENTS IN FRANCE FOLLOWING THE POLICE KILLING OF A 17-YEAR-OLD MOTORIST AT A TRAFFIC STOP...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
In spite of the recent US economic measures against China US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says that relations with China are on a "surer footing".
Yellen commenting at the end of her visit to China where she met with Chinese officials for 10 hours.
Talks on Saturday with China's top economic official He Lifeng called "candid, constructive and comprehensive" by the US side and "in-depth, candid and pragmatic" by the Chinses side...VOICE OF AMERICA
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH FAREED ZAKHARIA ON CNN, JOE BIDEN TAKING AIM AT ISRAEL'S GOVERNMENT.
BIDEN SLAMMING THOSE CABINET MINISTERS WHO SUPPORT JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA (THE WEST BANK)...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...
IN ISRAEL TODAY AN INTENSE CABINET MEETING WITH MINISTERS SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE JUDICIAL REFORM PLAN AND OPPOSING THOSE WHO STAND IN THE WAY OF IT.
FACE TO FACE CONFRONTATION WITH ISRAEL'S ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO OPPOSES THE REFORMS.
SOME DEMANDED THE REMOVAL OF GALI BAHARAV-MIARA.
PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ATTACKED HER SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW IN REGARDS TO THE RECENT MASS PROTESTS AGAINST JUDICIAL REFORM CALLING IT A:
"fatal wound to democracy"....
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SUGGESTED SHE WAS BEING SUBJECT TO POLITICAL INTERFERENCE AND OPPOSITION LEADER YAIR LAPID DESCRIBED THE CABINET'S CRITICISM OF HER AT TODAY'S MEETING A:
"violent hazing"
AND AN EFFORT TO:
"forcibly take out our democracy"
(COMMENT)
WHEN PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU PUT A FOUR-WEEK HOLD ON THE WIND FARM PROJECT IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS OPPOSED BY DRUZE FARMERS, IT BECAME OBVIOUS TO ME THAT NETANYAHU WAS 'CLEARING THE DECK' FOR ACTION...
More news from Israel later in the summary....
A mass protest in the nation of Georgia this weekend opposing an LGBT Pride Festival.
After thousands of protesters appeared near the capital city of Tbilisi the organizers decided to cancel the Tbilisi Pride Festival.
Protesters came to an events venue where the festival was taking place.
They said that the police and government failed to protect the festival from "far-right groups"...
In Israel leaders of protests against judicial reform warning that leaders like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
"will learn what happens when we're angry"
The government plans to advance legislation gutting the power of Israel's bar association over the country's judges in the coming days one of several reform bills planned in the coming weeks.
140-thousand protested in Tel Aviv Saturday night and an all-night protest was held outside the home of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that both Türkiye (Turkey) and Ukraine violated agreements when commanders of a siege early in the war returned to Ukraine this weekend.
The Nazi Ukrainian nationalist commanders sent home from Türkiye with the visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
LITHUANIA INSTITUTING A BLOCKADE ON ITS BORDER WITH BELARUS THIS WEEKEND.
THE MEDININKAI BORDER CROSSING CLOSED TO VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS...TASS RUSSIA...
THE NATO SUMMIT IN LITHUANIA JUST DAYS AWAY.
An attack on a police station in southeastern Iran this weekend.
At least two police officers killed in the attack in Baluchistan Province...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKIYE (TURKEY)
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
CRIMEAN AIR DEFENSE TAKES DOWN CRUISE MISSILE
RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSE ACTIVATED IN ROSTOV REGION
SHELLING ATTACKS ON CITY OF DONETSK
UKRAINIAN ROCKETS HIT RUSSIAN TOWN
A cruise missile brought down by Russian air defenses in Crimea today. The incident happened near Kerch with no casualties or damage reported.
Kerch is the area where the bridge connecting Crimea with other parts of Russia is located...TASS RUSSIA
Russian air defenses activated in the Rostov Region today with fragments dispersed on the city of Donetsk....TASS RUSSIA
Two shelling attacks early Sunday morning on the Russian city of Donetsk...TASS RUSSIA
Ukrainian Grad rockets hitting the Russian town of Shebekino. A market hit by the rockets but there were no casualties...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
In other news....
THE BBC SUSPENDING A PRESENTER ACCUSED OF PAYING A TEENAGER FOR EXPLICIT PHOTOS.
THE NAME OF THE INDIVIDUAL REMAINS UNDISCLOSED FOR NOW...BBC NEWS BLOG
Sikhs in Canada protesting this weekend after the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in the Vancouver area last month.
Nijjar an advocate for an independent Sikh nation in India (Khalistan).
Protesters see the hand of the Indian government in the assassination but Canadian authorities are not even discussing the notion...NEWS AGENCIES TRT WORLD TURKIYE (TURKEY)
The largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands Albert Heijn discontinuing the sale of knives in its stores.
"Increasing aggression in society"
cited as a reason for removing knives from the shelves.
Two weeks ago a Albert Heijn employee was stabbed to death in a store in The Hague...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
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