Thursday, October 10, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT 10/10/2024 NEWSDUMP THURSDAY*US INFLATION REMAINS HOT*US PUSHING GOV'T CHANGE IN LEBANON AMIDST ISRAELI ATTACKS*CHINA CRITICIZES ISRAELI "DEATH AND HUNGER" GAZA POLICY*

 



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                   LATE NEWS TONIGHT:





Israel's security cabinet met tonight regarding the planned attack on Iran.    


The cabinet said to have given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant discretion to carry out the attack...NHK World Japan





16 REPORTED DEAD DUE TO HURRICANE MILTON IN FLORIDA AS RELIEF EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY...BBC NEWS BLOG




In Colorado an accident at a gold mine tourist attraction one dead, four injured and 12 trapped on a trolley elevator.


It was caused by an 'equipment malfunction' at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek...9NEWS DENVER




(UPDATED) POLICE SHOOTING A MAN WHO SET FIRES AT MULTIPLE LOCATIONS IN THE GERMAN CITY OF KREFELD NEAR THE DUTCH BORDER.



THE SUSPECT IN SERIOUS CONDITION.   HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE OPERATED ALONE.   POLICE SAY ITS NOT CLEAR WHAT HIS MOTIVE WAS.


A VIDEO SAYING THE SUSPECT WAS STARTING TO ATTACK PEOPLE WITH A HAMMER WHEN HE WAS SHOT...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...VISEGRAD 24 "X" (Video Embed)




(Updated) 22 killed and 117 wounded in fresh Israeli airstrikes in Beirut tonight.


Israel said to be attempting an assassination of a Hezbollah intelligence official.


That attempt appears to have failed...Times of Israel...BBC News Blog




TORONTO DOMINION BANK COMMONLY CALLED 'TD BANK' PLEADING GUILTY TO US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CHARGES.



THE BANK ACCUSED OF VIOLATING MONEY LAUNDERING AND BANK TRANSPARENCY LAWS.




IT WILL PAY MORE THAN THREE BILLION DOLLARS IN FINES UNDER A DEAL WITH THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND WILL BE LIMITED IN ITS ABILITY TO EXPAND OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES...THE HILL



In the Netherlands an emergency shelter for overflow at an asylum seekers center won't open as planned following a bomb explosion.


The former school was to be used starting tomorrow for overnight migrant housing but it will only now be used in any extreme situations Saturday and Sunday...NOS Netherlands




US INFLATION MEASURED BY THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX REMAINS HOT.


THE ANNUAL RATE OF INFLATION AT 2.4 PERCENT LAST MONTH INSTEADY OF THE EXPECTED 2.3 PERCENT.



CORE INFLATION COMING IN AT 3.3 PERCENT INSTEAD OF THE 3.2 PERCENT EXPECTED.



TODAY'S 2.4 PERCENT ANNUAL CPI RATE DETERMINES THE RATE OF INCREASE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS IN THE COMING YEAR...BARRONS...




THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCING A 2.5 PERCENT INCREASE IN BENEFITS FOR THE COMING YEAR...(News Agencies)



The markets today.




The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 57.88 points.



The NASDAQ down 9.57 points.


At 424 pm New York Time the price of oil sharply higher 75 dollars 94 cents a barrel up two dollars 70 cents or 3.69 percent...Marketwatch



TWO UN PEACEKEEPERS WOUNDED BY ISRAELI TANK FIRE IN SOUTHERN LEBANON.


THE TANK OPENING FIRE ON AN OBSERVATION TOWER.


THE UN SAYS ISRAELI FORCES HAVE REPEATEDLY STRUCK THEIR POSITIONS IN RECENT DAYS...POLITICO EU...


ISRAEL URGING UN FORCES TO WITHDRAW FROM THEIR POSITIONS...(BBC NEWS)...TASS RUSSIA...


INDONESIAN PEACEKEEPERS HURT IN THAT INCIDENT THAT WAS CONDEMNED BY INDONESIA'S AMBASSADOR AT THE UNITED NATIONS.


ITALY'S DEFENSE MINISTER SEEKING AN EXPLANATION FROM ISRAEL SAYING THE FIRING ON THE UN PEACEKEEPERS WAS NOT A MISTAKE...TIMES OF ISRAEL


While Israel goes on the military offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon the United States is said to be talking with Arab countries about a new president in Lebanon.



Arrangements for a new Lebanese government also being promoted in which Hezbollah would have less power...Times Of Israel



IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER SEYED ABBAS ARAGHCHI HOLDING TALKS WITH SAUDI LEADERS INCLUDING CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN.



THE REGIONAL SITUATION DISCUSSED AMIDST EXPECTATIONS OF AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN FOLLOWING IRAN'S MISSILE BARRAGE AND ISRAEL'S ASSASSINATION ATTACKS IN THE REGION.



ARAGHCHI SAYING THAT ISRAEL IS TRYING TO DRAG THE MIDDLE EAST INTO A CATASTROPHE REQUIRING 'WISDOM, COURAGE AND COOPERATION'...IFP NEWS



In continuing verbal provocation of China Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te saying he will 'resist annexation'.



His speech on Taiwan's National Day today followed an earlier statement that China was not the motherland of Taiwan.



The Chinese government says that Mr. Lai has a 'malicious intent to escalate hostility and confrontation' by challenging the notion accepted by most foreign nations and even the United States at times during recent decades that Taiwan is part of China...AFP FRANCE-STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE (CLICK PAST AD)






CHINA'S UNITED NATIONS REPRESENTATIVE FU CONG SAYS ISRAEL NEEDS TO STOP 'WEAPONIZING HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE'.



SPEAKING AT AN EMERGENCY SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING, HE SAID THAT 'DEATH AND HUNGER HAVE BECOME THE NEW NORMAL IN GAZA'.



MR. FU SAYS THE CONFLICT ISRAEL IS INVOLVED IN CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO EXPAND WITH THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL'S ROLE BEING MARGINALIZED.



HE DEFENDED THE UN RELIEF AGENCY FOR PALESTINIANS AS ISRAEL MOVES LEGISLATION TO BAN ITS OPERATION...CHINA DAILY




A MERCHANT SHIP ATTACKED IN THE RED SEA OFF THE WEST COAST OF YEMEN.   ONE PROJECTILE STRIKING THE SHIP CAUSING DAMAGE BUT NO FIRE OR CASUALTIES...UK MARITIME TRADE OPERATIONS "X"...LATER TWO MORE PROJECTILES EXPLODED CLOSE TO THE VESSEL WITH NO FURTHER DAMAGE...UNITED KINGDOM MARITIME TRADE OPERATIONS "X"



   THE ISRAEL-HAMAS-HEZBOLLAH-IRAN CONFLICT

                                                          (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)




          THREE ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILLED IN GAZA 




     DEAD AND WOUNDED IN ISRAELI GAZA ATTACKS





                ISRAELI SOLDIER KILLED IN LEBANON




              MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



               LBCI LEBANON (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



                              ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



                                    AL JAZEERA QATAR



                                      TIMES OF ISRAEL





Three Israeli soldiers killed by a bomb (IED) in northern Gaza...OSINTdefender "X"





28 killed more than 50 wounded in an Israeli attack on a school in central Gaza...Tass Russia




One Israeli soldier killed, another seriously wounded in the fighting in Lebanon...Israel National News




In other news...



DUTCH PRIME MINISTER FORMER INTELLIGENCE CHIEF DICK SCHOOF DISTANCING HIMSELF FROM THE CALL BY PARTY OF FREEDOM (PVV) LEADER GEERT WILDERS TO FIRE AMSTERDAM MAYOR FEMKE HALSEMA.


WILDERS AND OTHER PVV POLITICIANS WANT HALSEMA OUT OVER ALLOWING A PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTEST IN THE CITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE OCTOBER 7TH ANNIVERARY OF THE HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL.



THE PVV IS THE LARGEST OF THE FOUR PARTIES ENDORSING THE GOVERNMENT LED BY MR. SCHOOF.



SCHOOF SAYING THAT IT IS NOT APPROPRIATE TO ASK MAYOR HALSEMA TO LEAVE FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




The Washington DC based Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) out with a new report linking forced labor from Uyghur Muslims in western China to the pharma industry.



The report is critical of the US Food and Drug Administration and the US Agency of International Development for continuing to do business with drug suppliers linked to forced labor.



This is being done in spite of laws requiring American companies to ensure there is no forced labor in their supply chains...RADIO FREE ASIA USA








    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                                 (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



                              TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS



            RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





In other news...





Han Kang of South Korea winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.


The 53-year-old fiction writer praised for her work that 'confronts historical traumas'...BBC NEWS




AND ETHEL KENNEDY DEAD AT THE AGE OF 96.


KENNEDY THE WIDOW OF ASSASSINATED SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND MOTHER OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR...BBC NEWS

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