Sunday, June 30, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 6/30/2024 NEWSDUMP WEEKEND*INCREASED ALERT AT US EUROPEAN BASES*NATIONAL RALLY WINS FIRST ROUND OF FRENCH VOTE, MAY GAIN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MAJORITY IN SECOND ROUND*FAKE COUP IN BOLIVIA LAST WEDNESDAY?*CORRUPTION PROBE INVOLVING MULTINATIONAL ARMS MAKER*

 


(UPDATED WHEN ABLE WITH FINAL POSTINGS 1130 PM-12 MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME)




                   LATE NEWS TONIGHT:






Tonight Hurricane Beryl with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour is approaching the Windward Islands expected to enter the Caribbean Sea tomorrow....National Hurricane Center Latest Advisory





US CENTRAL COMMAND REPORTING DESTRUCTION OF THREE HOUTHI DRONE BOATS IN THE RED SEA...US CENTRAL COMMAND "X"





NORTH KOREA FIRING TWO MISSILES EASTWARDS EARLY MONDAY MORNING.


THE TWO MISSILE FIRINGS 10 MINUTES APART.


NORTH KOREA HAD WARNED OF 'COUNTERMEASURES' DURING THE RECENT JOINT MANEUVERS INVOLVING US, JAPANESE AND SOUTH KOREAN FORCES...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA



Police and Orthodox Jewish men clashing in Jerusalem at an anti-draft protest.


Rocks and stones thrown at an Orthodox cabinet minister's car.


At least one injured with five arrests made...TIMES OF ISRAEL...ASSOCIATED PRESS-VOICE OF AMERICA



(Updated) ISRAEL STRIKING TARGETS IN LEBANON AFTER 18 ISRAELI SOLIDERS (Israel National News)...WERE HURT IN A HEZBOLLAH DRONE ATTACK EARLIER TODAY...OSINTdefender "X"...


...HEZBOLLAH SAYING IT ATTACKED AN ISRAELI TANK BASE...Tass Russia



THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION: ROUND ONE



NATIONAL RALLY PROJECTED WINNER OF ROUND ONE WITH POTENTIAL FOR MAJORITY FOLLOWING SECOND ROUND VOTE

                                                        (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



"Democracy has spoken and the French have put the RN and its allies at the top, practically wiping out the Macron camp"

MARINE LE PEN SPEAKS FOLLOWING PROJECTIONS OF A NATIONAL RALLY VICTORY IN THE LEGISLATIVE ELECTION'S FIRST ROUND



It's being called the highest turnout since 1986 for a legislative election in France.


The early projection 33 percent for the National Rally, 28.5 percent for the New Popular Front and 22 percent for ENSEMBLE the parties aligned with President Emmanuel Macron.


Projecting to the second round vote next week the potential for 260-310 seats for the RN in the 577 seat National Assembly...(Elabe-BFM-TV France)



The Projection from Government Media (France Televisions-Radio France) more favorable to the RN with 34 percent of the popular vote to 28.1 percent for the New Popular Front and 20.3 percent for ENSEMBLE.


Tonight President Emmanuel Macron calling on third place candidates to drop out of next week's final round to defeat the "Far-Right".


60 of his ENSEMBLE candidates dropping out of next Sunday's vote...



            BFM-TV France (Translation Prompt)



                             BBC News Blog



(UPDATED) THE US INCREASING COMBAT READINESS AT MILITARY BASES IN EUROPE OVER A 'TERRORIST ATTACK' THREAT...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA...THIS IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SECURITY AT US BASES IN TEN YEARS...TASS RUSSIA



Heavy rains in India's capital city New Delhi with at least 11 reported dead.   


A major downpour Friday the largest in decades...REUTERS-GULF TODAY UAE



US politics and polling in state of Michigan showing Donald Trump at 49 percent to Joe Biden's 45 percent.    The EPIC-MRA poll gives Trump 41 percent, Biden 38 percent and Kennedy 10 percent in a multi-candidate field...Real Clear Polling Latest Polls


BRITISH POLITICS REFORM UK LEADER NIGEL FARAGE ADDRESSING A MASS RALLY IN BIRMINGHAM TODAY JUST FIVE DAYS BEFORE ELECTION DAY.


FOCUSING HIS ATTACK ON LABOR PARTY LEADER SIR KEIR STARMER FARAGE SAYING STARMER LACKS THE CHARISMA NEEDED TO LEAD IN DIFFICULT TIMES...




"We need someone leading our country in difficult times when the world is perhaps in a more perilous place than its been in our lifetime you do need a degree of charisma...


Keir Starmer has the charisma of a...



he has the charisma of a damp rag.


And what does he stand for he can't even define what a woman is.


He blips and blops and changes his mind..."


NIGEL FARAGE SPEAKS STARTING AT 1:18:27 INTO THE LINKED VIDEO BELOW...




     (FULL RALLY VIDEO EVENT STARTS 3:15 NIGEL FARAGE AT 1:11:30)




The first round of France's legislative election today early turnout was reported higher than the 2022 National Assembly vote...(Information from BFM-TV France)



HUNGARY'S PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR ORBAN SPEARHEADING FORMATION OF A NEWS 'FAR-RIGHT' POLITICAL ALLIANCE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.


ORBAN ALIGNING WITH AUSTRIA'S FREEDOM PARTY AND A CZECH NATIONALIST PARTY UNDER THE BANNER 'PATRIOTS FOR EUROPE'...NEWS AGENCIES-FRANCE 24



In the coming week Chinese President Xi Jinping visiting Central Asian countries bordering China.   Starting on Tuesday Xi will be in Kazakhstan and on Thursday he will be in Tajikistan...Tass Russia...Tass Russia Story Two



AN ACCUSATION OF A STAGED COUP EVENT IN BOLIVIA LAST WEDNESDAY.



GENERAL JUAN ZUNIGA, THE ARMY COMMANDER INVOLVED IN THE EVENTS AT THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE THAT AFTERNOON, TOLD REPORTERS BEFORE HIS ARREST THAT LEFTIST PRESIDENT LUIS ARCE PUT HIM UP TO HIS ACTIONS:




"Arce ordered me to stage a fake coup to increase his popularity"...



            ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS






An incident in the Red Sea off Yemen this morning.   12 small craft some of them drones approaching a merchant vessel.   They later moved away...United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations




Searches carried out at facilities of the aerospace-defense conglomerate Thales Group in France, Spain and the Netherlands.



Authorities and courts in all three countries involved in a probe that focuses on corruption and influence peddling involving public officials...BFM-TV France (Translation Prompt)



THE FIRST ROUND OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN IRAN LEAVING A 'REFORMIST' FACING A 'HARD-LINER' IN NEXT FRIDAY'S FINAL ROUND.


MASOUD PEZESHKIAN AND SAEED JALILI WERE THE TOP TWO FINISHERS IN FRIDAY'S VOTE...ASSOCIATED PRESS-PBS ONLINE



(UPDATED) SUICIDE BOMBING ATTACKS IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA KILLING AND WOUNDING DOZENS.


A WEDDING, A FUNERAL AND A HOSPITAL AMONG THE TARGETS ATTACKED.


THE BORNO REGION HAS BEEN THE SCENE OF BOKO HARAM TERRORIST ACTIVITY FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS...BBC NEWS...FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS SAID TO BE INVOLVED IN THE ATTACKS.




Sonic booms across Lebanon Saturday night as Israeli warplanes flew low...TASS RUSSIA



A SERBIAN POLICE OFFICER ATTACKED WITH A CROSSBOW OUTSIDE ISRAEL'S EMBASSY IN BELGRADE, SERBIA SATURDAY.


THE ATTACKER SHOT DEAD.


THE POLICE OFFICER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN THE NECK.


THE ATTACKED IDENTIFIED AS A SERBIAN WHO CONVERTED TO ISLAM WITH A PROBE UNDERWAY CONCERNING ANY TIES TO SPECIFIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)









               THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

                                                           (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


   HEAVY SHELLING IN GAZA, FIGHTING CONTINUES



            MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



                             ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




                                     TIMES OF ISRAEL




Today heavy bombardment of the Shujaiya district of Gaza by Israel.   Fighting also reported in the central and southern parts of Gaza...AFP FRANCE-THE PENINSULA QATAR



In other news...




European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen in Cairo for a two-day investment conference.


20 deals worth over 40 million Euros (42 billion USD) being signed.



The European Union already providing 7.4 billion dollars worth of funding to help support Egypt's debt.


The European investment and debt support for Egypt part of an effort to support North African countries in exchange for assistance in stemming migration in the direction of Europe...News Agencies-The New Arab






    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                               (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



       TWO WOUNDED IN UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK




36 DRONES DESTROYED BY RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSES



RUSSIA REPORTS 'TERRORIST ATTACK' AFTER DEADLY UKRAINIAN SHELLING OF RUSSIAN VILLAGE




                          TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS




         RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




Two wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on a home in Russia's Belgorod Region...TASS RUSSIA




Russia's Ministry of Defense reporting destruction of 36 drones overnight into Sunday...RIA NOVOSTI (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




A terrorism investigation opened up by Russian authorities this weekend after a Friday night Ukrainian drone attack that killed five members of one family.


The attack in the village of Gorodishche in the Kursk Region....RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




In other news...



A judge in Panama acquitting 28 people charged with money laundering in connection with the Panama Papers scandal.



Secret financial documents leaked to Mainstream Media in 2016 revealing the use of Panama as a tax haven by rich and powerful people.


Panamania judge Baloisa Marquinez saying the evidence considered by the court was ultimately 'not sufficient' to determine the defendants responsible for breaking laws...BBC NEWS

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