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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
NORTH KOREA FIRED SEVERAL CRUISE MISSILES NORTHEASTWARDS WEDNESDAY MORNING...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA
THE US HOUSE VOTING TO IMPEACH US HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS.
THE VOTE 214-213. THREE REPUBLICANS JOINED DEMOCRATS IN OPPOSITION...FREE REPUBLIC POST-NPR STORY-DISCUSSION
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin released from hospital and now performing his duties from home.
The Pentagon saying that Austin "is recovering well" after being hospitalized in intensive care for bladder issues following prostate cancer treatment...NEWS AGENCIES-FRANCE 24
LAYOFFS AT PARAMOUNT GLOBAL THE COMPANY THAT OWNS CBS. 800 JOBS CUT INCLUDING 20 AT CBS NEWS.
SOME ATTENTION FOCUSED ON INTERNAL CONFLICTS WITHIN CBS NEWS RELATED TO THE LAYOFFS OF CORRESPONDENTS CATHERINE HERRIDGE AND JEFF PEGUES AT THE WASHINGTON BUREAU.
HERRIDGE IS STILL INVOLVED IN A FIRST AMENDMENT CASE FROM HER DAYS AT FOX NEWS.
SHE IS BEING ASKED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE TO DISCLOSE THE SOURCE FOR HER STORY ABOUT A FEDERAL PROBE INVOLVING A CHINESE-AMERICAN SCIENTIST...NEW YORK POST
The European Union loosening a rule for farmers following protests in numerous European countries.
An EU rule forcing four percent of arable land to be kept fallow (unused) lifted retroactive to January 1st.
The rule had been relaxed in recent years since the Ukraine War began.
Even though the rules are now eased Germany's Green Party Environment Minister Steffi Lemke is critical and has no intention of implementing them in Germany...TAGESSSCHAU GERMANY (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
NEW UK-US AIRSTRIKES REPORTED IN YEMEN TONIGHT...TASS RUSSIA
Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announcing a 13-point plan to combat 'right-wing extremism'.
A wide range of measures proposed including laws making it easier to freeze bank accounts and cut off donations and funding to 'extremists'.
Also on the table legislation to ban 'extremist' events, prevent 'extremists' from entering Germany and fire 'extremist' government employees.
Stricter gun legislation also proposed.
Her move follows a month of mass-protests spearheaded by parties in the present government.
Those protests followed a mainstream media report about a 'far-right' meeting plotting mass deportations from Germany...BBC NEWS
(Updated) In Pakistan the two major political parties most supported by the military will unite to help form a new government.
The PPP party of the outgoing government will join the PML-N party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in forming a PML-N led.
The slate of independents associated with the PTI party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan aligning themselves with religious parties nationally and in the provinces seeking to form new governments...AL JAZEERA QATAR...
Tonight word that former Pakistani Prime Minister Shebhaz Sharif nominated to be the next Prime Minister...HINDUSTAN TIMES
AIR STRIKES IN EASTERN SYRIA SAID TO HAVE TARGETED A SUPPLY CONVOY AND BUILDING USED BY IRANIAN-AFFILIATED MILITIA...OSINT DEFENDER "X"
WATCHING ANOTHER SHARP RISE IN GAS PUMP PRICES HERE IN THE YORK, PENNSYLVANIA AREA.
$369.9 THE NEW PRICE RISING FROM $355.9 A GALLON.
PRICES JUST FIVE DAYS AGO $339.9.
Big drops on Wall Street today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 524.63 or 1.35 percent.
The NASDAQ fell 286.95 points or 1.8 percent.
The price of oil sharply rising in New York more than one percentage point closing at 77 dollars 77 cents a barrel...MARKETWATCH
INFLATION IN THE UNITED STATES STILL ABOVE THREE PERCENT.
ANNUAL INFLATION 3.1 PERCENT IN JANUARY DOWN FROM 3.4 PERCENT IN DECEMBER BUT EXPECTATIONS WERE THAT IT WOULD DROP TO 2.9 PERCENT...BBC NEWS
(Updated) Russian diplomats at the Canadian Ministry of External Affairs asking questions after their request for the extradition of a wanted Nazi war criminal was rejected.
98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka honored in Canada's parliament last year as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed it.
The Russians asking Canadian authorities about their knowledge of Hunka's Nazi SS past.
Failure to disclose such a background is grounds for revocation of Canadian citizenship...TASS RUSSIA...
Russia's ambassador in Ottawa saying that Canadian officials asked for 'additional time' to respond to their queries regarding Hunka...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
SOUTH AFRICA WITH AN URGENT REQUEST TO THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE REGARDING ISRAEL'S PLANS FOR MILITARY OPERATIONS IN SOUTHERN GAZA.
THE ICJ ASKED TO DECIDE IF ADDITIONAL EMERGENCY MEASURES ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS...AFRICA NEWS
RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES DECLARING CABINET MINISTERS IN THE GOVERNMENTS OF BALTIC COUNTRIES WANTED PERSONS.
CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED AGAINST OFFICIALS OF LATVIA, LITHUANIA AND ESTONIA OVER DESTRUCTION OF WORLD WAR II MONUMENTS TO SOVIET SOLDIERS...TASS RUSSIA STORY ONE...TASS RUSSIA NEWS STORY TWO
Four Armenian soldiers killed and another soldier wounded in shelling from Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan says Armenian forces fired on their positions...NEWS AGENCIES-CGTN CHINA
Police in India firing tear gas on farmers protesting farmers.
The farmers say the government did not follow through on a 2021 promise to pay them more for crops.
The police are breaking up the protests so they cannot reach the capital city of New Delhi...THE NEW DAILY AUSTRALIA
CHINA SAYS THAT ISRAEL SHOULD END MILITARY OPERATIONS IN GAZA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYING CIVILIAN CASUALTIES SHOULD BE AVOIDED AND THAT A 'MORE DEVASTATING HUMANITARIAN DISASTER' SHOULD BE PREVENTED IN THE SOUTHERN GAZA CITY OF RAFAH...AHARQ AL AWSAT UK
THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
(UPDATED WHEN ABLE)
TWO WOUNDED IN SHELLING OF NORTHERN ISRAEL
MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
TIMES OF ISRAEL
Two wounded in a rocket attack on northern Israel today...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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