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The latest on the deadly clashes in Kosovo in the Balkans today but first....
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
Multiple explosions reported tonight in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...At least one person wounded in the Russian attack with damage to port infrastructure...REUTERS
THERE'S A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT TO END THE WRITERS STRIKE AGAINST THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY...VARIETY
An apology from the speaker of Canada's House of Commons tonight following the honor he gave to a Ukrainian man who fought in a Nazi SS unit during World War II.
Jewish groups in Canada outraged by the round of applause offered to the 98-year old man during President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Parliament on Friday...CBC NEWS CANADA
FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL SAID TONIGHT THAT FRANCE'S AMBASSADOR AND FRENCH TROOPS IN THE AFRICAN NATION OF NIGER ARE PULLING OUT.
EARLIER THE NEW MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN NIGER ANNOUNCED A BAN ON FRENCH AIRCRAFT FLYING OVER THE COUNTRY...AFP FRANCE-DIGITAL JOURNAL
"The results are not what we were hoping for. This is certainly a very complex issue, but I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of it"
The words of Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni regarding illegal immigration.
Meloni interviewed on the anniversary of her "Brothers of Italy" party winning last year's Italian election.
Migrants registered with Italian authorities so far this year some 130,000 there were 70,000 at this time last year...BFM-TV FRANCE (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
A NASA capsule with asteroid samples returned to Earth today.
The capsule released from a spacecraft 63,000 miles from the earth...OUTLOOK INDIA
US POLITICS THE ABC NEWS/ WASHINGTON POST POLL SHOWING PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH A 51-42 PERCENT LEAD OVER JOE BIDEN IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST...REAL CLEAR POLITICS LATEST POLLS
A former FBI agent entering a guilty plea to one charge in US District Court in Washington DC with eight other charges dropped.
Charles McGonigal accused of taking 225-thousand dollars from a former Albanian intelligence officer.
That man, Agron Nezaj, turned informant for the FBI's probe of McGonigal...VOICE OF AMERICA
VIOLENT INCIDENT IN NORTHERN KOSOVO, AT LEAST FOUR DEAD
FIGHTING OVER AFTER HEAVY GUN BATTLES AT MONASTARY
SERBIAN PRESIDENT DENOUNCES BRUTAL ATTACK ON GROUP OF SERBS
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IN THE BALKANS A GROUP OF GUNMEN SURROUNDED IN NORTHERN KOSOVO AFTER A POLICE OFFICER WAS KILLED.
NATO TROOPS AND EUROPEAN UNION POLICE DEPLOYED IN THE AREA.
THE ALBANIAN PRESIDENT OF KOSOVO POINTING BLAME IN THE DIRECTION OF SERBIA WHICH SUPPORTS THE MINORITY SERB POPULATION IN KOSOVO...NEWS AGENCIES-TRT WORLD TURKEY (TURKIYE)...
THE KOSOVO POLICE SAY THAT THREE OF THE GROUP THAT ATTACKED THEM HAVE BEEN KILLED...N1 INFO SERBIA...
THE GROUP HOLED UP IN A MONESTARY IN NORTHERN KOSOVO.
THE LATEST REPORTING IS THAT THE SIEGE IS OVER AFTER SEVERAL FIERCE GUN BATTLES...BBC NEWS...
THE SERBIAN PRESIDENT ALEKSANDAR VUCIC SAYS TONIGHT THAT THREE SERBS WERE KILLED AND TWO WOUNDED.
HE DENOUNCED A BRUTAL ATTACK ON THE SERBS DONE BY KOSOVO POLICE SUPPORTED BY EU POLICE AND NATO SOLDIERS...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
The United States provided intelligence to Canada in connection with the killing of Sikh nationalist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
The New York Times report says Canada's own interception of communications proved more definitive in linking India's government to his killing....PRESS TRUST OF INDIA-HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russian media reporting that a German Leopard tank destroyed in Ukraine had a crew from Germany's military in it.
Members of the Russian armed forces telling this story to the RIA Novosti Agency which published a story Saturday speaking of the driver of a destroyed tank saying in German:
"Nicht schiessen"
"Don't shoot"
The man identifying himself as a member of the German armed forces not a mercenary fighting for Ukraine...RIA NOVOSTI
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that food and energy problems in the world today are squarely the fault of the Pro-Ukraine bloc of nations and their sanctions aimed at Russia...AL JAZEERA QATAR
Lavrov speaking at the United Nations this weekend.
Lavrov saying that Western nations are losing sight with their unrelenting effort to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia...TASS RUSSIA
34 killed in an explosion and fire at an illegal fuel depot in the African nation of Benin. Vehicles fueled up at the depot located in a warehouse...AFP FRANCE-VOICE OF AMERICA
13 KILLED, DOZENS MORE WOUNDED IN A SUICIDE BOMBING ATTACK IN CENTRAL SOMALIA. A TRUCK PACKED WITH EXPLOSIVES DRIVING INTO A SECURITY CHECKPOINT...AFP FRANCE-INDIA TODAY
US POLITICS ON FRIDAY NIGHT CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR DEMOCRAT GAVIN NEWSOM VETOED LEGISLATION THAT WOULD HAVE FORCED JUDGES TO CONSIDER 'GENDER AFFIRMATION' BY PARENTS IN CHILD CUSTODY CASES.
THE BILL PASSED CALIFORNIA'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY 57-16.
GOVERNOR NEWSOM ALSO VETOED ANOTHER BILL THAT WOULD HAVE BANNED AUTOMATED DRIVERLESS TRACTOR TAILERS.
NEWSOM SUGGESTED AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO JOE BIDEN FOR THE 2024 DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION...KCRA SACRAMENTO (VIDEO EMBED)
DURING A VISIT TO FRANCE POPE FRANCIS SAYING MIGRATION SHOULD NOT BE SEEN AS AN INVASION OR AN EMERGENCY BUT AS A GIVEN.
THE PONTIFF CALLING FOR A PAN-EUROPEAN PLAN TO BRING MIGRANTS IN AND INTEGRATE THEM INTO SOCIETY...NOS NETHERLANDS
Disturbances on Israel's borders Saturday in the north the Lebanese military says it fired tear gas to repel Israeli soldiers using smoke bombs and bulldozer to move earth on the border...SHAFAQ NEWS IRAQ...
On the southern border with Gaza a Palestinian riot aimed at Israeli soldiers was followed by an Israel strike at an outpost of the Hamas movement that rules Gaza...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
ONE KILLED, OTHERS WOUNDED IN UKRAINIAN ATTACK ON ZAPOROZHYE REGION
DRONE ATTACK IN RUSSIA'S BELGOROD REGION WOUNDS CIVILIAN
One civilian killed and 13 others wounded when Ukraine launched a missile attack in the Zaporozhye Region...TASS RUSSIA
The governor of Russia's Belgorod Region says that one civilian was wounded today in a Ukrainian drone attack...TASS RUSSIA
In other news...
Former US President Jimmy Carter appeared in public Saturday.
He and his wife Rosalynn traveled through his hometown of Plains, Georgia in the back of an SUV.
The SUV part of the Peanut Festival Parade.
Carter announced earlier this year that he was entering hospice care...NY POST
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