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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
More clashes reported in Tripoli. Libya tonight. This follows clashes last night that came in the wake of the assassination of a top central government security official...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)
FLOODING IN ALLEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND AND NEARBY PARTS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA.
RESCUE CREWS BROUGHT IN TO EVACUATE STUDENTS AND STAFF FROM TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS SURROUNDED BY FLOOD WATERS...WBOY-TV
IN LOS ANGELES A JUDGE RESENTENCING BROTHERS ERIK AND LYLE MENENDEZ IN THE MURDERS OF THEIR PARENTS.
THE NEW SENTENCE OF 50 YEARS TO LIFE MAKES BOTH ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE...ABC 7 LOS ANGELES
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake off the southern coast of Greece late tonight. It was felt in central and northern Israel. Also felt in Turkey and Greece as well as Egypt and Lebanon.
The quake centered east of the island of Crete and southwest of the island of Rhodes...US Geological Survey
US DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TULSI GABBARD FIRING TWO TOP OFFICIALS OF THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL.
ACTING DIRECTOR MIKE COLLINS AND HIS DEPUTY MARIA LANGAN-RIEKHOF TERMINATED.
GABBARD ALSO MOVING THE NIC'S OFFICES FROM THE CIA TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
HER OFFICE TALKING ABOUT EFFORTS TO END WEAPONIZATION AND POLITICIZATION OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY...THE HILL USA
Here in the United States Major League Baseball deciding to reinstate former players linked to gambling.
Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson now officially back in the game.
The move will allow Rose to be considered for baseball's Hall of Fame...CNN USA
THE UNITED STATES IMPOSING MORE SANCTIONS ON IRAN. 20 COMPANIES TARGETED OVER THE SUPPLY OF IRANIAN OIL TO CHINA.
IRAN SAYS ITS OIL SHIPMENTS TO CHINA HAVE SKYROCKETED SINCE US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP TOOK OFFICE EARLIER THIS YEAR...MEHR NEWS AGENCY IRAN
"What the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is doing is unacceptable...What he is doing is shameful"
FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON DESRCRIBING THE TEN WEEK CUTOFF OF HUMANITARIAN AID IN GAZA BY ISRAEL'S GOVERNMENT.
MACRON SAYING THE ONUS IS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP TO CHANGE MR. NETANYAHU'S MIND SINCE ISRAEL DEPENDS ON AMERICAN WEAPONS.
THE FRENCH PRESIDENT DOING A PRIME-TIME TELEVISION APPEARANCE TO PROMOTE THE LAST TWO YEARS OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL TERM TAKING QUESTIONS FROM POLITICAL OPPONENTS AND AVERAGE CITIZENS...LE MONDE FRANCE
IN THE DUTCH HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A DEBATE OVER THE WAR IN GAZA.
OPPOSITION PARTIES CHALLENGING THE MODERATE PARTIES OF THE GOVERNMENT THE LIBERALS AND THE NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT TO TAKE A HARDER LINE AGAINST ISRAEL.
GEERT WILDERS PARTY OF FREEDOM THE LARGEST GOVERNMENT PARTY ALREADY FIRMLY BEHIND ISRAEL...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
ISRAELI ATTACK SEEKS TO KILL HAMAS LEADER AS TRUMP PUSHES FOR END TO WAR IN GAZA
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"no way"
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU INSISTING THAT THE WAR IN GAZA WILL CONTINUE REGARDLESS OF ANY DEAL TO RELEASE HOSTAGES AND ESTABLISH A CEASE-FIRE WITH HAMAS.
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP APPEARS TO BE MOVING TOWARDS SUCH A DEAL DURING HIS MIDDLE EAST VISIT CURRENTLY UNDERWAY...ASSOCIATED PRESS-IRISH EXAMINER...
ISRAEL CONDUCTING AN AIR ATTACK IN GAZA SAID TO HAVE TARGETED HAMAS LEADER MOHAMMED SINWAR...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...
PALESTINIAN SOURCES SAYING 28 WERE KILLED IN THE ATTACK. A SECOND ATTACK IN THE SAME AREA REPORTED LATER IN THE EVENING.
ROCKET SIRENS WENT OFF IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL AFTER THE TWO ATTACKS. TWO ROCKETS DOWNED ANOTHER LANDING IN AN OPEN AREA.
ISRAEL TAKING DOWN A MISSILE FIRED FROM YEMEN BY HOUTHI FORCES. NO IMMEDIATE REPORTS OF INJURIES OR DAMAGE...TIMES OF ISRAEL...A LATER REPORT OF A MISSILE FIRED FROM YEMEN FAILING TO REACH ISRAEL.
At least 17 people have died in India after drinking toxic alcohol. Others are hospitalized in critical condition after drinking the illegally distilled liquor.
Authorities fear there will be more deaths...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
SPEAKING TO A RUSSIAN BUSINESS GROUP PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYING WESTERN NATIONS ARE READY TO SABOTAGE THEIR OWN ECONOMIES IN ORDER TO HARM RUSSIA'S.
HE SAID 'OF COURSE, WE MUST AT LEAST MINIMIZE THE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES'.
MR. PUTIN APPARENTLY BRACING FOR NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST HIS COUNTRY.
THEY HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED BY US PRESIDENT TRUMP AND EUROPEAN LEADERS DEPENDENT ON THE OUTCOME OF TALKS SET TO BE HELD IN TURKEY ON THURSDAY...TASS RUSSIA
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 269.67 points or .64 percent.
The NASDAQ rose 301.74 points or 1.61 percent.
At 453 pm New York Time the price of oil at 63 dollars 65 cents a barrel up one dollar 70 cents of 2.74 percent...Marketwatch
In Bangladesh the Awami League political party instrumental in founding the country in the early 1970's has been banned.
There are accusations of crimes against humanity in the former government's crackdown on student protests last year.
The current government led by Businessman-Economist Muhammad Yunus has been delaying new elections in the country...PIME ASIA NEWS ITALY
TRUMP IN SAUDI ARABIA
ANNOUNCES END TO SANCTIONS ON SYRIA
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US President Donald Trump has arrived in Saudi Arabia beginning his Middle East visit.
Trump meeting members of the Saudi royal family.
Elon Musk joining Mr. Trump and the Saudi leaders at a luncheon.
A 142-billion-dollar defense sales agreement signed with the Saudis.
In a speech President Trump praising the Saudi leadership and expressing his hope they would join the "Abraham Accords" establishing ties with Israel.
He also announced an end to US sanctions imposed on Syria during the Syrian Civil War when the US and other nations backed jihadist forces that now rule the country...BBC News...
In an apparent reference to post 9/11 US foreign and defense policy Mr. Trump said:
"so-called 'nation builders' wrecked far more nations than they built--and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies they did not understand"
Mr. Trump contrasting nation building failures in Iraq and Afghanistan with the economic success of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
He linked such nation building failures to "Neocons" and "liberal non-profits"...Lucas Tomlinson Fox News "X"...
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15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were citizens of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
An 18-month suspended sentence handed to French actor Gerard Depardieu. The 76-year-old film star convicted of sexual assault in groping incidents involving two women on film sets.
The accusations revolved around touching two women's breasts and buttocks while making sexually explicit remarks.
A three-year probation is also part of the sentence.
He was ordered to pay compensation to the victims and to undergo psychological treatment as well as registering himself as a sex offender...Anadolu Agency Turkey (Turkiye)
IN AUSTRALIA A NEW LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION. SUSSAN LEY SELECTED TO LEAD THE LIBERAL PARTY.
LEY NARROWLY DEFEATING HER MORE CONSERVATIVE CHALLENGER ANGUS TAYLOR.
SHE WILL LEAD THE LIBERAL-NATIONAL COALITION THAT SUFFERED SERIOUS LOSSES IN THE MAY 3RD ELECTION.
ONE OF THE CHALLENGES FOR THE LIBERAL-NATIONAL COALITION IN THE LAST TWO ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN 'MODERATE' WOMEN RUNNING AND BEING ELECTED IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTTIVES SEATS NORMALLY WON BY THE LIBERAL PARTY.
THE NATIONAL PARTY RE-ELECTING DAVID LITTLEPROUND AT THEIR LEADER...BBC NEWS
Activist Greta Thunberg says that Israel attacked an aid ship bound for Gaza recently.
The vessel had just left Malta when it was attacked by drones and put out of operation.
The attack occurred just before Thunberg was set to board the vessel.
Thunberg describing it as "another crystal-clear example of how human rights and international law are being completely disrespected".
Israel cut humanitarian aid to Gaza on March 2nd with UN officials speaking of an emerging famine crisis there...REUTERS-JERUSALEM POST
THE UNITED STATES HAS IMPOSED SANCTIONS ON THREE PEOPLE AND ONE ENTITY IN IRAN.
THE US STATE DEPARTMENT NEWS RELEASE SUGGESTS THEY ARE INVOLVED IN ACTIVITIES RELATED TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS...TASS RUSSIA
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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