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LATE NEWS TODAY:
Iran is touting its latest satellite launch saying the Nour-3 will be used for military intelligence purposes.
Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, General Hossein Salami, speaking about the new imaging satellite in Tehran today...PRESS TV IRAN
THE UNITED STATES IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON WHAT IT SAYS IS A NETWORK OF ENTITIES IN IRAN, HONG KONG, TURKEY AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES HELPING TO GET PARTS FOR IRAN'S PRODUCTION OF DRONES.
THE US SAYING THAT IRANIAN DRONES ARE BEING SUPPLIED FOR USE BY RUSSIA IN THE UKRAINE WAR...RADIO FREE EUROPE-RADIO LIBERTY
The African nation of Burkina Faso says it stopped a coup attempt yesterday.
Burkina Faso part of a group of African nations with closer ties to Russia than Europe and the United States...TASS RUSSIA
France's ambassador to Niger has returned home.
Niger's new military government wanted Sylvain Itte to leave the country.
On Sunday French President Emmanuel Macron announced with withdrawal of its ambassador and military forces from Niger...AL JAZEERA QATAR
CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU OFFERING AN APOLOGY OVER THE APPEARANCE OF A UKRAINIAN VETERAN OF A WORLD WAR II WHO WAS HONORED IN PARLIAMENT LAST FRIDAY...REUTERS-INDIA TODAY...
MEANWHILE KREMLIN SPOKESMAN DMITRY PESKOV SAYS THAT CANADA SHOULD BRING UKRAINIAN-CANADIAN YARSOLAV HUNKA TO JUSTICE.
THE 98-YEAR OLD HUNKA AT THE CENTER OF A CONTROVERSY WHEN HE WAS APPLAUDED IN CANADA'S PARLIAMENT DURING AN APPEARANCE BY VISITING UKRAINIAN PRRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY.
HUNKA FOUGHT IN A NAZI SS UNIT DURING WORLD WAR II.
PESKOV NOTING INTEREST IN POLAND ABOUT EXTRADITING HIM...TASS RUSSIA...
POLAND'S EDUCATION MINISTER SAID TUESDAY THAT HE WAS TAKING STEPS TO 'JUMPSTART' THE EXTRADITION OF HUNKA TO POLAND...DAILY BEAST
Canadian politics the EKOS poll released today showing the Conservative Party at 42 percent.
The Liberal Party of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is at 23 percent with the New Democratic Party at 18 percent.
THREE OUT OF FOUR PEOPLE POLLED IN FRANCE WANT FUEL TAXES CUT.
THE ELABE POLL FOR FRANCE'S BFM-TV SHOWING 76 PERCENT WANTING THE GOVERNMENT TO CUT FUEL TAXES TO LOWER GASOLINE PRICES.
THE PUBLIC ALSO SAYING THAT FRENCH GOVERNMENT MOVES TO ALLOW GASOLINE RETAILERS TO SELL GASOLINE AT COST OR AT A LOSS WILL NOT DO WHAT IS NEEDED TO LOWER PRICES...BFM-TV FRANCE (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
Israelis will be allowed to enter the US without a visa. Israel has been admitted into the Visa Waiver Program.
Part of the deal with Israel includes lifting restrictions on Palestinian-Americans...TIMES OF ISRAEL
ARGENTINA'S PESO SHEDDING VALUE TODAY THE UNOFFICIAL 'BLUE DOLLAR' PEGGED AT 773 PESOS TO THE DOLLAR THIS AFTERNOON, 15 PESOS MORE THAN YESTERDAY...TODO NOTICIAS ARGENTINA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 68.61 points.
The NASDAQ went up 29.24 points.
The price of oil closed today at 93 dollars and 68 cents a barrel a rise of more than three dollars.
Since then a slight rise at 655 pm New York Time the price of oil 93 dollars and 86 cents a barrel.
At 235 pm New York the Dow is falling, the NASDAQ is slightly lower and the price of oil is surging over 94 dollars a barrel up more than four percent...MARKETWATCH
NORTH KOREA EXPELLING US SOLDIER TRAVIS KING.
KING RAN ACROSS THE BORDER FROM SOUTH KOREA TWO MONTHS AGO.
The Russian Foreign Ministry says that last Friday's attack on Russia's Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol by Ukraine was closely coordinated with UK and US intelligence services.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stating in part:
"There is not the slightest doubt that this attack was pre-planned with the use of Western intelligence means and NATO satellite and spy planes.."
Zakharova saying that Ukraine acted at the request of American and British spy agencies...TASS RUSSIA
IN THE UK DEVEOPMENT OF AN OIL FIELD OFF THE SHETLAND ISLANDS HAS BEEN APPROVED.
PRIME MINISTER RISHI SUNAK CALLING IT THE BEST LONG-TERM DECISION.
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS OPPOSING THE IDEA...BBC NEWS...
(COMMENT) THIS DECISION COMES AMIDST RESTRICTIONS ON RUSSIAN OIL OVER THE UKRAINE WAR ALMOST BEGGING ONE TO CONSIDER WHAT WAS THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE UKRAINE WAR SO PASSIONATELY SUPPORTED BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
DID THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY SEE THE WAR AS A WAY TO DEVELOP 'DOMESTIC PRODUCTION' BY CUTTING OFF RUSSIAN OIL?
"working towards establishing a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital"
The words of Saudi Arabia's new envoy to the Palestinians Nayef al-Sudairi.
He visited with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for the first time in Ramallah after being appointed as Saudi Arabia's first representative to the Palestinians.
His arrival comes amid much speculation and strong hints from leaders like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a deal establishing relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel is near.
Such a deal would involve concessions regarding a Palestinian state...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
TESLA STARTING PRODUCTION OF 'MODEL Y' VEHICLES AT ITS SHANGHAI PLANT IN CHINA.
THE MODEL Y PRODUCTION INVOLVES NEW COST CUTTING MEASURES...REUTERS
THE URKAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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