NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 7/26/2023 REPUBLICAN SENATE LEADER FREEZES DURING NEWS CONFERENCE, US, FRANCE PUSH AGAINST CHINA IN SOUTH PACIFIC, BANK BOSS RESIGNS AFTER ADMITTING FALSE REPORT ON NIGEL FARAGE ACCOUNT CANCELLATION

 

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A coup in the African nation of Niger and a hike in the US interest rate but first...

                LATE NEWS TONIGHT:

THE US MILITARY SAYS THERE'S BEEN ANOTHER INCIDENT IN SYRIA WHERE A RUSSIAN WARPLANE DAMAGED AN AMERICAN DRONE...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND

Full Special Report: Leading Idaho Business Conglomerate Ends Up With 50 Million Dollar Judgement Against Ammon Bundy, Bundy Gives Four Reasons He Refused Court Fight

"So the court is saying that I owe St. Luke's 50 million dollars for speaking out against them over the Baby Cyrus"

Ammon Bundy speaking out today about the civil lawsuit involving himself and Diego Rodriguez grandfather of Baby Cyrus Anderson.

The 10-month old boy seized last year by police and taken to St. Luke's Hospital for alleged child neglect under a Child Protective Services order.

The child later returned to his parents found to have had a rare medical condition by the parents through their own research.

St. Luke's suing Bundy and Rodriguez and presenting evidence at trial to a jury saying Ammon Bundy was an extremist, domestic terrorist and seeking to make money.

Bundy chose not to contest the trial with his own defense and he explained why in a video late this afternoon...

TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN BRINGING TOGETHER THE TWO PALESTINIAN LEADERS WHO ARE ODDS WITH EACH OTHER.

THE ERDOGAN MEETING WITH PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY HEAD MAHMOUD ABBAS AND THE RULER OF GAZA HAMAS LEADER ISMAIL HANIYEH.

THIS MEETING COMES TWO DAYS BEFORE MR. ERDOGAN'S MEETING WITH ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IN TURKIYE (TURKEY)...THE MEDIA LINE (VIDEO EMBED)

A Saudi F-15 fighter jet crashing on a training mission near Yemen.    The crew members killed...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

Republican US Senate Leader Mitch McConnell left a news conference at the US Capitol today when he froze as he spoke to the media.

He was taken away to his office for a while, then returned to speak to reporters and answer questions...ASSOCIATED PRESS-THE GLOBE AND MAIL CANADA

RUSSIA HOSTING A SUMMIT WITH AFRICAN NATIONS TOMORROW AND FRIDAY IN ST. PETERSBURG.

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN MEETING ARRIVING AFRICAN LEADERS INCLUDING EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ABDEL FATTAH EL-SISI...TASS RUSSIA

A cabinet shakeup in Canada today.    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau adjusting his Liberal Party lineup of cabinet ministers.

The new Defense Minister is Bill Blair, a former Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minster and at one time the Police Chief of Toronto.

Marco Mendicino out as Public Safety Minister replaced by Dominic LeBlanc.   

Mendocino embroiled in gun control and foreign interference controversies among other matters...CBC NEWS CANADA

ACTIVITY IN A FEDERAL COURTROOM IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE RELATED TO HUNTER BIDEN THE SON OF JOE BIDEN.

A PLEA DEAL SAID TO HAVE FALLEN THROUGH...(Mainstream Media Reports)

THE US FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD RAISING THE PRIME LENDING RATE BY .25 PERCENT TODAY.

THIS PUTS THE RATE IN THE 5.25 TO 5.50 PERCENT RANGE.

The markets today.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 82.05 points.

The NASDAQ down 17.27 points.

At 513 pm New York Time the price of oil 78 dollars and 92 cents a barrel down 71 cents...MARKETWATCH

GASOLINE PUMP PRICES HERE IN THE YORK, PENNSYLVANIA AREA JUMPING WITH THE COMMON 375.9 PRICE NOW 389.9 THAT 14 CENTS A GALLON MORE THAN BEFORE.

Russia says it will retaliate after the nation of Moldova between Romania and Ukraine ordered a reduction in the Russian embassy staff...TASS RUSSIA

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the South Pacific nation of Tonga.   

Blinken dedicating a new US Embassy the US deciding to build there to counter Chinese influence.

He warned about Chinese aid which has been given widely in the region calling it "predatory"...AL JAZEERA QATAR...

Also in the South Pacific French President Emmanuel Macron visiting New Caledonia urging the territory to remain part of France.

There is strong sentiment for independence among the local Kanak people.

Macron suggesting independence would mean a "Chinese naval base tomorrow"...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA

In the UK Dame Alison Rose resigning at CEO of the NatWest Group after she admitted being the source of a false report about the cancellation of Nigel Farage's bank account with the Coutts bank owned by NatWest.

Just hours before her resignation Mr. Farage said that Rose:

"broke client confidentiality and is unfit to be CEO of NatWest Group"

...BBC NEWS LIVE BLOG...NIGEL FARAGE TWITTER

IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN CLAIMS THAT ISRAEL IS BEHIND THE RECENT QURAN BURNING INCIDENTS IN DENMARK AND SWEDEN.

IRAN'S INTELLIGENCE MINISTRY HAS SAID THAT A MAN WHO BURNT THE QURAN IN STOCKHOLM WAS AN OPERATIVE OF ISRAEL'S MOSSAD SPY AGENCY.

BUT IRAN ALSO HOLDS THE SCANDANAVIAN COUNTRIES RESPONSIBLE FOR ALLOWING THE DESECRATION...PRESS TV IRAN

(UPDATED) IN THE AFRICAN NATION OF NIGER A COUP. 

THE COUP ANNOUNCED BY THE MILITARY IN A TELEVISION BROADCAST TONIGHT.

THE COUNTRY'S BORDERS CLOSED.

   PRESIDENTIAL GUARDS SEIZING PRESIDENT MOHAMED BAZOUM.

MILITARY FORCES RUSHING INTO THE CAPITAL CITY OF NAIMEY SURROUNDING KEY BUILDINGS AND ...BBC NEWS

15 people including civilians and soldiers killed in explosions in Yemen.   The civilians died when an unexploded bomb from Yemen's civil war detonated.

The soldiers killed in bombing attacks...AL ARABIYA SAUDI ARABIA

  THE URKAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

UKRAINIAN SHELLING OF SOUTHWESTERN RUSSIA 90+ ROUNDS IN 24 HOUR PERIOD

               TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED

    RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

In a 24-hour period more than 90 rounds of munitions fired into southwestern Russia's Belgorod Region from Ukraine...TASS RUSSIA

In other news...

ACTOR KEVIN SPACEY ACQUITTED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES BY A JURY IN LONDON...

More than 100 government agencies and 40,000 government employees have been moved out of Cairo to Egypt's "New Administrative Capital".

It's part of a project that began in 2015 to relieve congestion in Cairo by relocating government facilities to a new location 45 miles east of the city...AL AHRAM EGYPT

Irish singer Sinead O'Connor dead at the age of 56.

She had a tumultuous career that included numerous controversies.

O'Connor converted to Islam in 2018.   He 17-year-old son Shane went missing last year and found dead...BBC NEWS