Wednesday, June 26, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 6/26/2024*NORTH KOREA CLAIMS MISSILE TEST SUCCESS*COUP ATTEMPT IN BOLIVIA*SUPREME COURT ALLOWS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO PUSH SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP*KENYAN PRESIDENT WITHDRAWS TAX HIKE PLAN*

 



                       (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING)


                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:



US CENTRAL COMMAND REPORTING DESTRUCTION OF A RADAR SITE OPERATED BY HOUTHI FORCES IN YEMEN...US CENTRAL COMMAND "X"




North Korea claiming a successful test of multiple warhead missile capability.


The North Korean missile firing yesterday was determined as a failed hypersonic missile launch by South Korea...Yonhap News Agency South Korea




TWO KILLED A SOLDIER WOUNDED IN AN ISRAELI ATTACK IN THE DAMASCUS AREA OF SYRIA TONIGHT.


SYRIA REPORTING SOME MATERIAL DAMAGE WAS CAUSED BY THE ISRAELI STRIKE...SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




The former president of Honduras given a 45-year jail sentence in US federal court in New York.  


Juan Orlando Hernandez convicted of taking bribes from drug smugglers of the Sinaloa Cartel...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




THE US ARMY ISSUING NEW RULES REGARDING 'EXTREMISM' IN THE RANKS.


THEY ARE DESIGNED TO GIVE THE CHAIN OF COMMAND GUIDANCE AS TO HOW TO DEAL WITH 'EXTREMIST' AND GANG-RELATED ACTIVTIES AMONG SOLDIERS...TASK AND PURPOSE




TROOPS MOVE ON PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN BOLIVIA, THEN PULL BACK

                                                           (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


MILITARY UNITS STORMING THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN BOLIVIA.


BOLIVIA IS A LEFTIST RULED COUNTRY IN SOUTH AMERICA.


CURRENT PRESIDENT LUIS ARCE CALLING FOR DEMOCRACY TO BE RESPECTED WITH FORMER PRESIDENT EVO MORALES ACCUSING A GENERAL OF ATTEMPTING TO SEIZE POWER...BBC NEWS...


GENERAL JUAN JOSE ZUNIGA SPEAKING OUTSIDE THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN LA PAZ OF A RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY.



LATER GENERAL ZUNIGA SAYING HE RESPECTED THE RULE OF PRESIDENT ARCE BUT THAT THERE SHOULD BE A CHANGE OF CABINET MINISTERS.



EVENTUALLY THE GENERAL WAS ARRESTED.


THE ONLY IRREGULAR MILITARY MOVEMENTS SEEN IN BOLIVIA SO FAR ARE IN THE PLAZA MURILLO A CENTER OF GOVERNMENT IN LA PAZ.


PRESIDENT ARCE DEMANDING THAT GENERAL ZUNIGA BACK DOWN.


A CEREMONY HELD LATE THIS AFTERNOON BY PRESIDENT ARCE CHANGING THE HIGH COMMAND OF THE MILITARY.


MR. ARCE APPEARING IN PUBLIC WITH A LARGE CROWD SUPPORTING HIM.


TROOPS PULLING BACK FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE THIS EVENING...UNITEL BOLIVIA (LIVE VIDEO FEED IN SPANISH AVAILABLE AT LINK)



BRITISH POLITICS A NEW POLL SHOWING A MASSIVE LABOR LANDSLIDE IN THE JULY  4TH ELECTION FOR THE 650 HOUSE OF COMMONS SEATS.


THE LEADING OPPOSITION PARTY IN THE HOUSE WOULD BECOME THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS AT 71 SEATS, THE CONSERVATIVES REDUCED TO 60 SEATS AND THE REFORM UK EXPECTED TO WIN 18 SEATS...MIRROR UK


The US Supreme Court describing the publishing of an opinion supporting 'emergency abortions' in Idaho as a mistake.


It's part of a case that's in an appeals court regarding Idaho's new abortion laws.


The court said an opinion will be published in due course.   


A lower court ruling in favor of those 'emergency abortions' with an appeals court keeping the Idaho abortion law intact...BBC NEWS


The US Supreme Court with a 6-3 ruling against a claim of White House coercion of social media censorship surrounding COVID and the 2020 election.


The majority saying that the plaintiffs, five social media users and two state attorney generals, did not have legal standing in the case.


Three conservative justices in the minority with Justice Samuel Alito expressing the opinion that this case was:



"one of the most important free speech cases to reach this court in years"



The ruling a win for Joe Biden taking down a lower court injunction limiting Biden Administration communications with social media companies.


The FBI and other federal agencies now unleashed to pressure social media companies over posts-accounts on social media.


Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene saying the decision means:



"A very dangerous precedent has been set today"...MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE "X" (VIDEO EMBED)...



                                             ...BBC NEWS




IN THE NETHERLANDS A SUSPECT BEING HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE ATTACK ON SPANISH POPULIST 'FAR-RIGHT' POLITICIAN ALEJO VIDAL-QADRAS ALSO SUPECTED IN PLANNING AN ATTACK ON AN IRANIAN ACTIVIST-JOURNALIST.


THE 38-YEAR OLD TUNISIAN NATIONAL ARRESTED ON JUNE 6TH WITH A SUSPECT OF COLOMBIAN NATIONALITY ALSO SUSPECTED IN THE ATTACK PLOT AIMED AT A THAT UNNAMED IRANIAN IN THE NETHERLANDS.



A DUTCH WOMAN ALSO BEING HELD IN CONNECTION WITH FINANCING THE PLOT TO ATTACK THE SPANISH POLITICIAN...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



The markets today.



The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 15.64 points.



The NASDAQ rose 87.50 points.


At 443 pm New York Time the price of oil at 80 dollars 65 cents a barrel down 18 cents...MARKETWATCH




 OUTGOING DUTCH PRIME MINISTER MARK RUTTE FORMALLY APPROVED AS THE NEW SECRETARY-GENERAL OF NATO...TASS RUSSIA




Kenyan President William Ruto formally backing down on legislation that would have raised taxes by billions of dollars a year...BBC NEWS...




....At least 13 killed in yesterday's protests in Kenya's capital of Nairobi.


A doctors group expects the death toll to rise.


Demonstrators opposing planned tax increases in clashes with police.    Parts of the parliament building were burned...BBC NEWS






20 soldiers killed in the African nation of Niger in a terrorist attack.   Nine others wounded.   A military operation launched after the attack with dozens of terrorists reported killed...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY (TURKIYE)




South Korea's military saying North Korea's launch of a missile early today appears to have failed.

 

Japan's Defense Ministry saying the missile made it 62 miles high and went 124 miles before going down.


The Yonhap News Agency cited a source saying the launch was a failed test of a hypersonic missile...REUTERS-VOICE OF AMERICA



US SAFETY INVESTIGATORS SAYING THE BURNING AND RELEASE OF TOXIC CHEMICALS AFTER LAST YEAR'S DRAIN DERAILMENT IN EAST PALESTINE, OHIO WAS NOT NECESSARY...THE INDEPENDENT UK




             THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

                                                        (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



UN FOOD WATCHDOG WARNS OF CATASTROPHIC FOOD SITUATION IN GAZA



          MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



                              ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



                                     TIMES OF ISRAEL



A UN food watchdog warning of the high risk of famine in the months ahead in Gaza.


The overall situation in the territory described at catastrophic...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)











   THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                         (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


                        TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS



      RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

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