Sunday, January 19, 2025

NEWS SUMMARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 1/19/2025*NEWSDUMP WEEKEND*MORE BIDEN PARDONS*ISRAEL-HAMAS CEASFIRE-HOSTAGE RELEASE DEAL STARTS*TIKTOK SHUTS DOWN BUT REOPENS*J6 TYPE INCIDENT OVER PRESIDENTIAL ARREST IN SOUTH KOREA*

 


(SERVICE WHEN ABLE IMPACTED BY WEATHER CONDITIONS WITH LATE POST AROUND MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME SUNDAY)




                       LATE NEWS TONIGHT:



In Israel groups of nationalist settlers attacking Palestinian villages to protest the ceasefire hostage deal with Hamas.


Firebombs and stones used in the attacks...Times of Israel




SPEAKING AT A RALLY IN WASHINGTON DC ON THE EVE OF HIS INAUGURATION PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP PROMISING IMMEDIATE ACTION.    



MR. TRUMP EXPECTED TO SIGN MORE THAN 200 EXECUTIVE ORDERS ON HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE...BBC NEWS







Two women critically hurt in a ski lift accident in Spain.   Others less seriously hurt when a cable slackened and chairs dropped into the snow...BBC News



Seven more pardons from outgoing US President Joe Biden.   Five outright pardons and two commutations of sentences.


Democrat politician Don Scott the Speaker of Virginia's House of Delegates pardoned for a 'non-violent drug offense'.


Another pardon given posthumously to civil rights activist Marcus Garvey who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923...The Hill USA



THE NEW SYRIAN DEFENSE MINISTER REJECTING THE NOTION THAT US BACKED SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC FORCES (SDF) FIGHTERS SHOULD OPERATE INDEPENDENTLY.


MURHAF ABU QASRA SAYS THE SDF IS PROCRASTINATING ON INTEGRATION INTO A NEW SYRIAN ARMY...THE NEW ARAB




(Updated) 58 people reported dead in clashes between the leftist ELN rebel group in Colombia and former leftist FARC rebels.

Thousands of people displaced by the fighting in the Catatumbo Region near the border with Venezuela...RCN Colombia (Translation Prompt)...The conflict between the two factions linked to the drug trade involving cocaine...(News Agencies)




(Updated with intervention by incoming President Donald Trump)



TikTok shutting down in the USA before the Midnight Eastern US Time deadline.

The shut down started around 1030 pm Saturday night with a message expressing hope that President-Elect Trump will enable TikTok to resume operations once he takes office...OSINTdefender "X"...


Mr. Trump announced on social media today that he will issue an order tomorrow when he takes office.    


His ultimate goal is "50 percent US ownership" of TikTok with any other owners the current owner or new owners...Donald Trump Truth Social...


Trump cited the need for Americans to see his inauguration tomorrow and TikTok moved to restore service Sunday afternoon...BBC News




(UPDATED) THE CEASEFIRE-HOSTAGE RELEASE DEAL BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS BEGINNING AT 130 AM EASTERN US TIME (830 AM IN GAZA).



HAMAS RELEASED THREE HOSTAGES SUNDAY AFTERNOON.



ISRAEL IN TURN RELEASING 90 PALESTINIAN PRISONERS HELD ON TERRORISM RELATED CHARGES.



MORE THAN 630 AID TRUCKS ENTERING GAZA.




ISRAEL'S NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER ITAMAR BEN GVIR OF THE OTZMA YEHUDIT (JEWISH POWER) PARTY RESIGNING OVER THE DEAL.  


THE MEMBERS OF HIS PARTY IN PARLIAMENT LEAVING THE GOVERNING COALITION...



..Times Of Israel Liveblog 1-19-2025...Al Jazeera Qatar...BBC News Blog



The outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was often contradictory.


Blinken saying Mr. Netanyahu would say one thing in private to the Biden Administration then say something different in public to maintain political power in Israel...Times of Israel





TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ASSASSINATED IN IRAN.


THE ASSASSIN COMMITTING SUICIDE.   A BODYGUARD WOUNDED.



THE MURDERED JUIDGES HANDLED CASES OF SPYING AND TERRORISM...REUTERS-BANGKOK POST




At least 70 people killed in northern Nigeria in the explosion of a fuel truck.


The stranded truck leaking fuel with a crowd gathering to steal it.


A power generator became involved in the fuel theft prior to the explosion...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)




A NATIONWIDE NIGHTTIME CURFEW IN SOUTH SUDAN AFTER DEADLY RIOTING IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF JUBA.


THREE KILLED, SEVEN WOUNDED IN PROTESTS THAT LED TO PILLAGING OF SHOPS.



THE VIOLENCE STEMMING FROM THE DEATHS OF SOUTH SUDANESE NATIONALS IN SUDAN'S CIVIL WAR...NEWS AGENCIES-AFRICA NEWS




    (UPDATED WITH COURT BUILDING ATTACK STORY)


A SOUTH KOREAN COURT THIS WEEKEND EXTENDED THE DETENTION OF IMPEACHED PRESIDENT YOON SUK YEOL...UPI...THIS MEANS THAT YOON IS NOW FORMALLY UNDER ARREST.


A HUGE CROWD OF PROTESTERS SUPPORTING PRESIDENT YOON OUTSIDE THE COURT ESTIMATED TO BE AS MANY AS 44-THOUSAND PEOPLE...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA...



IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN INCIDENT SIMILAR TO THE EVENTS OF JANUARY 6TH AT THE US CAPITOL, A GROUP OF PEOPLE ENTERED THE COURT BUILDING WHERE YOON'S HEARING WAS HELD.



THERE WERE ACTS OF VANDALISM RECORDED ON CAMERA AND 86 ARRESTS.



AUTHORITIES SETTING UP A SPECIAL TASK FORCE TO INVESTIGATE THE MATTER...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY






   THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                        (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


URKAINIAN DRONES DOWNED IN BRYANSK REGION OF RUSSIA



     RUSSIA CLAIMS ADVANCES IN DONETSK REGION



     DEADLY ATTACK ON KIEV SATURDAY MORNING



                          TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS


          RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



Seven Ukrainian drones shot down in Russia's Bryansk Region Sunday evening...RIA Novosti Russia



Russia says its forces are advancing in the Donetsk Region (Donetsk People's Republic) with two villages captured...Tass Russia



Three people killed in a Russian attack on Kiev Saturday morning.  The attack targeting an armaments factory in the city...BBC News




In other news...




An arrest warrant out for Bolivia's former Leftist President Evo Morales.


He failed to appear before a judge on charges of rape involving a 16-year-old girl Morales accused of fathering a child with her.



This is alleged to have happened when Morales was president in 2016.


Supporters of Morales say the accusation is political in nature coming from current President Luis Arce.


Mr. Morales is barricaded with armed security-supporters at an estate in rural Bolivia...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)



A JUDGE IS SET TO SENTENCE THE MAN CONVICTED OF RAPING AND MURDERING A TRAINEE DOCTOR IN INDIA.


VOLUNTEER HOSPITAL WORKER SANJAY ROY CONVICTED.  ROY MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE.



THE CASE SPARKED MASS PROTESTS AND OUTRAGE ACROSS INDIA.



THE JUDGE SAYING THE SENTENCE WILL EITHER BE LIFE IN PRISON OR THE DEATH PENALTY...BBC NEWS




Last week an incident British and French fishing vessels in the English Channel.


The French crew felt their vessel shake with the British vessel said to have cut fishing nets.


The British vessel then sailed to a Dutch port it reportedly had a Dutch crew on board...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)













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