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In the Red Sea late tonight a merchant vessel reporting slight damage after being struck on its port side by an unknown object...UK Maritime Trade Operations "X"
CHAOS IN TAIWAN'S PARLIAMENT TODAY. PUSHING AND SHOVING FILES SNATCHED FROM MP'S.
THE CONFLICT OVER PROPOSALS TO INCREASE LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT.
THE DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE PARTY THAT WON THE PRESIDENCY IN TAIWANS ELECTION EARLIER THIS YEAR LACKS A PARLIAMENTARY MAJORUTY WITH THE OPPOSITION KUOMINTANG PARTY HAVING MORE SEATS JUST SHORT OF A MAJORITY...INDIA TODAY
THE US AND IRAN HELD INDIRECT TALKS IN OMAN THIS WEEK TO PREVENT ESCALATION OF MIDDLE EAST TENSIONS.
THIS REPORTED BY MEDIA OUTLET 'AXIOS'...TASS RUSSIA
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan travelling to Saudi Arabia and Israel this weekend.
Sullivan meeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tomorrow...(News Agencies)...INVESTING.COM INDIA
IN A LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE OF FRANCE'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AN 'ASSISTED DYING' BILL APPROVED TONIGHT.
THE LEGISLATION COMING UP FOR DEBATE STARTING ON MAY 27TH.
THE LEGISLATION SPEAKS OF 'ADVANCED OR TERMINAL ILLNESS' TRIGGERING THE USE OF A LETHAL SUBSTANCE...BFM-TV FRANCE (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
The US State Department issuing a security alert claiming an increased threat to LGBTQ+ people and events inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.
This alert comes two weeks before the state of LGBTQ+ Pride Month in the US...REUTERS-MALAY MAIL
IN ISRAEL THE POPULARITY OF TOP POLITICIANS MEASURED IN A CHANNEL 12 POLL.
PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AT 32 PERCENT. HIS PRIMARY POLITICAL RIVAL AT 35 PERCENT.
AT 43 PERCENT APPROVAL DEFENSE MINISTER YOAV GALLANT WHO EXPRESSED DISAGREEMENT WITH MR. NETANYAHU THIS WEEK OVER POST-WAR GOVERNANCE OF GAZA.
AND NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER ITAMAR BEN GVIR MEASURING AT 28 PERCENT POPULARITY BEN GVIR DUBBED 'FAR-RIGHT' BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA...TIMES OF ISRAEL
The Pentagon spin on sexual assaults in the US military for the 2023 fiscal year is that fewer occurred than in 2021.
But there are more incidents of sexual assault being reported in the US military.
8,515 official reports submitted in the 2023 fiscal year...TASK AND PURPOSE
AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE, THREE OF THEM TOURISTS, KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN.
SEVEN WOUNDED IN THE ATTACK.
SEVERAL GUNMEN OPENING FIRE IN BAMIYAN PROVINCE.
SUSPICION OF ISLAMIC STATE BEING BEHIND THE ATTACK. WHEN THE US LED MILITARY COALITION MOVED OUT OF AFGHANISTAN IN 2021 ISIS MOVED IN...SKY NEWS UK
Dutch medical entrepreneur and former Labor Party politician Ronald Plasterk apologizing to New Social Contract party leader Pieter Omtzigt.
Today both men meeting with Mr. Plasterk considered the leading candidate to be the next Dutch Prime Minister in the four-party arrangement including Geert Wilders Party of Freedom...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
VISITING HARBIN, CHINA RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS A 'SANITARY ZONE' IS NEEDED NEAR KHARKOV (KHARKIV) IN UKRAINE.
THIS BECAUSE OF UKRAINIAN SHELLING OF RUSSIA'S BELGOROD REGION.
RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE BEEN ADVANCING INTO UKRAINE'S KHARKOV REGION IN THE LAST WEEK...TASS RUSSIA...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
The US touting the arrival of a trickle of humanitarian aid in Gaza. This follows construction of a pier off the coast of Gaza by the US military...US CENTRAL COMMAND "X"
THE EUROPEAN UNION MOVING TO SHUT DOWN FOUR RUSSIAN MEDIA OUTLETS.
THE FOUR OUTLETS INCLUDE THE RIA NOVOSTI NEWS AGENCY AND IZVESTIA.
THE RUSSIA MEDIA BANNED IN THE EU FOR 'SPREADING RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA' AND BECAUSE THEY 'SUPPORT THE WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE'...UPI
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 134.21 points.
The NASDAQ down 12.35 points.
At 448 pm New York Time the price of oil rising to 79 dollars 98 cents a barrel up 75 cents...MARKETWATCH
More surgery today for Slovak Premier Robert Fico wounded in an assassination attempt Wednesday.
Fico's condition described as 'still very serious'...NEWS AGENCIES-TRT WORLD TURKEY (TURKIYE)
"This gives me the willies"
HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR ORBAN TYING TOGETHER THIS WEEK'S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SLOVAK PRIME MINISTER ROBERT FICO AND THE PUSH BY WESTERN NATIONS FOR DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN THE UKRAINE WAR.
ORBAN NOTING THAT MR. FICO SOUGHT PEACE IN UKRAINE.
HE ALSO SAID THAT NATO CHIEF JENS STOTENBERG IS PRESSURING HUNGARY TO CHANGE ITS STANCE ON NATO AND ITS INVOLVEMENT IN UKRAINE...TASS RUSSIA
THE ISRAELI MILITARY PICKING UP THE PACE OF CENSORSHIP LAST YEAR.
ACCORDING TO A WEBSITE IN ISRAEL 613 ARTICLES WERE PREVENTE FROM PUBLICATION IN 2023.
ALSO 2,703 OTHER NEWS ITEMS DELETED LAST YEAR...THE NEW ARAB
A man shot dead by French police as he was trying to set fire to a synagogue.
In the city of Rouen there was a call reporting a fire near the synagogue.
Police found a man armed with a knife and an iron bar approaching them.
He was shot and killed...AFP FRANCE-VOICE OF AMERICA
NORTH KOREA FIRING SEVERAL SHORT RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILES EASTWARDS INTO THE SEA TODAY...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA...
THE SISTER OF NORTH KOREAN RULER KIM JONG-UN DISMISSING WESTERN INSINUATIONS REGARDING WEAPONS BEING SENT TO RUSSIA.
KIM YO-JONG SAYING THAT NORTH KOREA'S WEAPONS ARE MEANT FOR DOMESTIC USE ALONE...KOREA JOONGANG DAILY
Political polling in Canada showing the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bleeding support from Jewish and Muslim voters.
The New Democrat Party now has the most Muslim support in Canada at 41 percent while Jewish support for the Conservatives tops the Liberals at 42 percent.
Overall, the Liberals trail the Conservatives in national political polls around 20 percent right now the NDP close behind in third place.
Observers saying that Mr. Trudeau's efforts to appease both Muslim and Jewish voters since the October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas are failing...CBC NEWS CANADA
THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
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BODIES OF ISRAELI HOSTAGES RECOVERED IN GAZA
MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
TIMES OF ISRAEL
The Israel Defense Forces announcing that the bodies of three hostages have been recovered in Gaza...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
In other news....
The man convicted in the attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband given a 30-year jail sentence.
David DePape convicted of assault and attempted kidnapping...BBC NEWS
A TURKISH COURT JAILING A KURDISH LEADER FOR 42 YEARS.
SELHATTIN DEMIRTAS LED A PRO-KURDISH POLITICAL PARTY AND RAN FOR PRESIDENT OF TURKEY TWICE.
DEMITRAS CONVICTED OF DOZENS OF CRIMES INCLUDING SOME LABELED 'UNDERMINING STATE UNITY AND THE COUNTRY'S INTEGRITY'...AFP FRANCE-MALAY MAIL
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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