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North Korea firing artillery shells towards South Korea for a third day but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
A THREE-YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN CHILD IN A CAR KILLED BY ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES IN WHAT'S BEING CALLED AN ACCIDENT.
THE SHOOTING HAPPENED WHEN ANOTHER CAR RAMMED AN ISRAELI SECURITY CHECKPOINT IN EAST JERUSALEM.
A BORDER POLICE OFFICER WOUNDED IN THE INCIDENT WHERE THE OCCUPANTS OF THE RAMMING VEHICLE WERE SHOT DEAD...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Explosions reported in the Odessa Region of Ukraine late tonight...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
THE BRITISH NEWSPAPER 'THE TELEGRAPH" DESCRIBES HAMAS 'USING MASSIVE STOCKPILE OF CHINESE WEAPONRY'.
THE REPORT ATTRIBUTED TO ISRAELI SOURCES...THE TELEGRAPH UK
LIBYA REPORTS PRODUCTION AT ITS LARGEST OIL FIELD SUSPENDED.
PROTESTERS FORCING THE FACILITY TO CLOSE...ASSOCIATED PRESS
(Updated) In Washington DC the Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in agreement on a 'top line' for federal government spending through most of 2024.
This is the first step in keeping the US government spending more money in the 2024 fiscal year but with what are considered 'limits'.
The deal defined by the Mainstream Media as the first step in preventing a federal government shutdown...THE HILL...
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This "deal" opens up more support for Ukraine and its Nationalist-Nazi military machine.
FARMERS SET TO PROTEST IN GERMANY STARTING TOMORROW. MAINSTREAM MEDIA WARNING OF POSSIBLE CONVOYS AND BLOCKADES.
GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES CUT TO FARMERS FOLLOWING A FEDERAL COURT RULING AGAINST THE SPENDING METHODS OF THE GOVERNMENT...TAGESSCHAU ARD-TV NEWS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
Inside Israel's cabinet meeting today debate over fewer firearms being available for Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria ("The West Bank").
Settlements Minister Orit Strock raising the question backed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir over the reduction in firearms available to protect Jews in the settlements.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying:
"This is an issue that must be dealt with. We must arm more people."
An Israel Defense Forces representative at the cabinet meeting saying the reduction in firearms for Judea and Samaria is linked to demobilization which includes reservists turning in their weapons...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
THERE'S MESSAGING FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AGAINST ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU.
UNNAMED BIDEN OFFICIALS SAY NETANYAHU WANTS TO ESCALATE CONFLICT WITH THE IRANIAN-BACKED HEZBOLLAH MOVEMENT IN LEBANON IN ORDER TO REMAIN IN POWER...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...
MEANWHILE THE EUROPEAN UNION'S FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JOSEP BORRELL MET WITH A HEZBOLLAH POLITICAL LEADER IN BEIRUT THIS WEEKEND.
BORRELL SPOKE AT A NEWS CONFERENCE SAYING:
"It is absolutely necessary to avoid Lebanon being dragged into a regional conflict"...
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China set to impose sanctions on five US defense contractors.
They are being sanctioned for selling arms to Taiwan...TASS RUSSIA
US DEFENSE SECRETARY LLOYD AUSTIN REMAINED IN HOSPITAL THIS WEEKEND AFTER BEING ADMITTED ON NEW YEAR'S DAY.
AUSTIN SAID EXPECTING TO FULLY RESUME HIS DUTIES YESTERDAY.
ON SATURDAY HE SAID HE HOPES TO RETURN TO THE PENTAGON SOON.
ITS SAID THAT JOE BIDEN WAS NOT INFORMED OF AUSTIN'S HOSPITALIZATION UNTIL THURSDAY.
REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE UPSET WITH THE SITUATION THAT UNFOLDED THIS PAST WEEK WITH SECRETARY AUSTIN BEING INCAPACITATED...AXIOS
A US WARSHIP SHOOTING DOWN A YEMENI (HOUTHI) DRONE IN THE RED SEA SATURDAY NIGHT.
THE DRONE DETERMINED TO BE A THREAT BY DESTROYER USS LABOON...US CENTRAL COMMAND "X" SOCIAL MEDIA
The Federal Aviation Administration grounding 171 Boeing 737MAX900 airliners for safety inspection.
This follows Friday evening's blowout or the emergency exit of an Alaska Airlines flight that had just left Portland, Oregon.
The plane forced to make an emergency landing...BBC NEWS...
There's also word that the European Safety Agency has grounded Boeing 737MAX900 airliners for safety checks...RIA NOVOSTI AGENCY RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
THE US NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ALLOWING A LOWER COURT INJUNCTION AGAINST A CALIFORNIA GUN CONTROL LAW TO COME BACK INTO FORCE.
THE LAW BANNING FIREARMS IN MOST PUBLIC PLACES TOOK EFFECT ON NEW YEARS DAY...ASSOCIATED PRESS-CBS NEWS
(Updated) Today is Election Day in Bangladesh. The opposition boycotting what is seen as a rigged process.
Opposition leader former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is currently in jail.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina proclaimed the winner of the election for her fifth term...AL JAZEERA QATAR LIVE BLOG...ANI NEWS INDIA
US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN IN JORDAN AND QATAR TODAY CONTINUING TO TOUR MIDDLE EAST NATIONS.
BLINKEN ALSO VISITING SAUDI ARABIA, THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, ISRAEL INCLUDING A MEETING WITH PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP PLUS EGYPT...TIMES OF ISRAEL...
MR. BLINKEN WAS IN TURKEY (TURKIYE) AND GREECE ON SATURDAY.
HE MET TURKISH LEADERS DISCUSSING THE CONFLICTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND URKAINE.
THE TURKISH PARLIAMENT HAS NOT YET APPROVED SWEDEN JOINING NATO AND THE TURKS WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE F-16 WARPLANES FROM THE US...TASS RUSSIA...
IN GREECE BLINKEN TALKED CLOSER DEFENSE COOPERATION IN ADDITION TO THE ONGOING WORLD CONFLICTS.
HE MET GREEK PRIME MINISTER KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE...TASS RUSSIA
(UPDATED) FOR THE THIRD DAY IN A ROW NORTH KOREA AGAIN FIRING ARTILLERY SHELLS INTO THE WATERS OFF ITS WESTERN COAST.
90 SHELLS LANDING IN WATERS JUST NORTH OF THE MARITIME BORDER WITH THE SOUTH...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA
ON SATURDAY NORTH KOREA FIRED 60 ARTILLERY SHELLS INTO WATERS OFF ITS WEST COAST.
IT WAS THE SECOND SUCH INCIDENT IN RECENT DAYS...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA
THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
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HEZBOLLAH TARGETS ISRAELI BASE WITH ROCKET BARRAGE
MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
On Saturday Hezbollah launching dozens of rockets at Israel's Mount Meron military intelligence base near the Lebanese border.
Rockets later fired on other areas as Hezbollah responds to the recent assassination of a top Hamas official in Lebanon by Israel...TIMES OF ISRAEL STORY...ARYA-"X" SOCIAL MEDIA
In other news...
Federal authorities arresting three people in connection with their alleged activities at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
The three said to be hiding out in Florida...AL JAZEERA QATAR
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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