Tuesday, June 18, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 6/18/2024*HUNDREDS ARRESTED OPPOSING TAX HIKES IN KENYA*PUTIN VISIT TO NORTH KOREA

 



                                    (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING)





                      LATE NEWS TONIGHT:





 Legendary baseball outfielder Willie Mays dead at the age of 93.


Mays played most of his 20 plus years in baseball with the San Francisco Giants.


During his career he won 12 Gold Gloves and hit 660 home runs ranking him sixth all time in the sport...ESPN





US Central Command reporting nine drones destroyed in and around Yemen today...US CENTRAL COMMAND "X"



TWO MAJOR BRUSHFIRES EXPANDING IN NEW MEXICO FORCING EVACUATIONS WITH HUNDREDS OF STRUCTURES REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED...KOB-TV NEW MEXICO




ISRAEL SIGNALING THE NOTION OF AN INVASION OF SOUTHERN LEBANON TO COMBAT HEZBOLLAH.


TOP MILITARY COMMANDERS IN ISRAEL'S NORTH APPROVING PLANS FOR AN ATTACK...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS





ON CAPITOL HILL TODAY A SENATE HEARING WITH MAJOR DEFENSE CONTRACTOR CEO DAVID CALHOUN OF BOEING SPEAKING.



CALHOUN MAKING A PUBLIC APOLOGY RELATED TO DEATHS IN ACCIDENTS LINKED TO BOEING AIRCRAFT.



FAMILY MEMBERS OF CRASH VICTIMS AT THE HEARING WITH PICTURES OF LOVED ONES AND THEIR HANDS PAINTED RED TO SYMBOLIZE THE NOTION OF BOEING HAVING BLOOD ON ITS HANDS...INDEPENDENT UK




Seven dead in a traffic accident near Chartres, France about 100 kilometers south of Paris.



A car with five young people colliding head on with a vehicle driven by an elderly couple.



All were killed.    Two others hurt when the car containing the young people collided with another car...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



More than 200 protesters arrested in Nairobi, Kenya as demonstrations against proposed tax hikes continue.


Black t-shirts and noise making from the demonstrator along with social media videos also used to express anger over the tax increase legislation.


Phone calls and text messages also sent to legislators.


The government of President William Ruto backing away from some of the proposed new taxes including those proposed for bread...ANI NEWS INDIA




The markets today.




The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 56.76 points.



The NASDAQ rose 5.21 points.


At 438 pm New York Time the price of oil higher at 81 dollars 54 cents a barrel up one dollar 19 cents or 1.48 percent...MARKETWATCH




         (WARNING: THIS STORY MAY BE DISTURBING)


IN FRANCE A 12-YEAR-OLD JEWISH GIRL SAYS SHE WAS RAPED IN A SUBURB OF PARIS LAST SATURDAY EVENING.


POLICE TOOK THREE SUSPECTS INTO CUSTODY AGES 12 AND 13.


THE GIRL SAYING HER ATTACKERS MADE ANTI-SEMETIC REMARKS...BFM-TV FRANCE (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS





It's now certain that outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will be the next Secretary General of NATO.



Mr. Rutte obtaining the support of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION







LEGISLATION PASSING THAILAND'S SENATE TO LEGALIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.


FINAL APPROVAL EXPECTED IN THE WEEKS AHEAD.



THAT WOULD MAKE THAILAND THE FIRST SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATION TO LEGALIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE...MOTHERSHIP SINGAPORE



An election year move by Joe Biden to give an estimated 500,000 immigrants a pathway to US citizenship.


The plan applying to spouses of US citizens living in the country for ten or more years.



The announcement seen as an attempt to appease those angered by Biden's toughened election year stance on illegal immigration via the southern US border...ASSOCIATED PRESS-IRISH EXAMINER



FOR THE SECOND TIME IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS A SMALL GROUP OF NORTH KOREAN SOLDIERS CROSSED THE BORDER INTO SOUTH KOREA.


THE INCIDENT THIS MORNING AT 830 AM LOCAL TIME LED TO WARNING SHOTS FROM SOUTH KOREA AS HAPPENED THE PREVIOUS TIME.



THE NORTH KOREAN SOLDIERS ALL CARRYING WORK TOOLS APPEARING TO STRENGTHEN THE BORDER BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA






VLADIMIR PUTIN VISITS NORTH KOREA

                                                                          (UPDATED)








              FULL VIDEO WITH PUTIN ARRIVAL AT 26:30




LATE TONIGHT RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN ARRIVED IN NORTH KOREA.


PUTIN MET AT THE AIRPORT BY NORTH KOREAN RULER KIM JONG-UN...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...PUTIN AND KIM HUGGING EACH OTHER...TASS RUSSIA



"Russia has incessantly supported and will support the DPRK and the heroic Korean people in their struggle against the treacherous dangerous and aggressive enemy"




Part of an article written by Russian President Vadimir Putin in North Korea's ruling party newspaper...TASS RUSSIA...



"Our people consider it an honor to fight shoulder to shoulder on a common front"


North Korea's ruling party newspaper editorializing about North Korea and Russia fighting together on the occasion of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA






RUSSIA'S PACIFIC FLEET CONDUCTING EXERCISES INOVOLVING DOZENS OF WARSHIPS AND WARPLANES DURING THE NEXT 10 DAYS.



THE DRILLS IN WATERS NEAR RUSSIA INCLUDING THE SEA OF JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA



CHINA LAUNCHING A PROBE INTO PORK IMPORTS FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION.


THE CHINESE MOVE RETALIATION FOR EU ECONOMIC WARFARE ADDING ADDITIONAL TARIFFS ON CHINESE-MADE ELECTRIC VEHICLES...AL JAZEERA QATAR



                THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

                                                              (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


              MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




                               ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




                                     TIMES OF ISRAEL




In other news...


Fiji's military launching a probe after a recently obtained 20-million-dollar Australian patrol ship went aground.



The RFNS Puamau was recently commissioned and was on a two-week exercise when it struck a reef a week ago today...RADIO NEW ZEALAND








    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                            (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)




                         TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS



     RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



In other news....



Singer Justin Timberlake arrested by police in New York accused of driving under the influence...BBC NEWS









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