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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
ISRAEL AIR ATTACKS IN SYRIA TONIGHT. THE ATTACKS IN THE PORT CITY OF LATAKIA.
THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES SAY THEY HIT WEAPONS DEPOTS HOLDING ANTI-SHIP MISSILES...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel barring a visit by Arab foreign ministers to the Palestinian capital of Ramallah.
The visit of the ministers from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE called 'provocative' and aimed at promoting a 'terrorist state'...Israel National News
TEN PEOPLE HURT IN A UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK IN RUSSIA'S KURSK REGION.
APARTMENT BUILDINGS STRUCK BY THE DRONES, OTHER BUILDINGS AND A GARAGE ALSO DAMAGED...TASS RUSSIA
"We are not going to sugarcoat it--the threat China poses is real. And it could be imminent."
SPEAKING AT THE SHANGRI-LA SECURITY CONFERENCE IN SINGAPORE US DEFENSE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH WARNING ABOUT A THREAT FROM CHINA.
HEGSETH STRESSING A US BUILDUP IN WHAT IS BEING CALLED THE 'INDO-PACIFIC REGION' AND SAYING ALLIES NEED TO SPEND MORE TO COUNTER CHINA.
HIS DEFINITION OF ALLIES INCLUDES TAIWAN WHICH THE US DECLARED PART OF CHINA BACK IN THE 1970'S WHEN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WERE ESTABLISHED...ASSOCIATED PRESS USA-IRISH NEWS
At a rally in Pittsburgh to promote the Nippon Steel-US Steel alliance President Trump announced a doubling of aluminum and steel tariffs.
Next Wednesday Trump saying the tariffs will go from 25 percent to 50 percent...BBC NEWS
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYING THAT DEALS ARE CLOSE ON A CEASEFIRE-HOSTAGE RELEASE IN GAZA AND ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
TRUMP SUGGESTING THAT IN THE DEEP NEWSDUMP PERIOD THIS WEEKEND WHILE THE SABBATH IS UNDERWAY IN ISRAEL A GAZA DEAL MAY EMERGE...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina in Ukraine alongside him Democrat US Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
Senator Graham says he expects a Russia sanctions bill to be moving in the Senate next week.
The bill would tariff goods from countries buying Russian oil at 500 percent.
Prominent among countries buying Russian oil China and India...Bloomberg
THE US SUPREME COURT RULING IN FAVOR OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S REPEAL OF A BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PAROLE FOR MIGRANTS FROM LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES.
TWO LIBERAL JUSTICES ON THE HIGH COURT DISSENTING...THE HILL USA
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP APPEARING BEFORE THE MEDIA ALONGSIDE ELON MUSK IN THE OVAL OFFICE.
MUSK LEAVING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TODAY.
THEIR JOINT APPEARANCE SIGNALS UNITY AMID MAINSTREAM MEDIA REPORTING ABOUT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND THE BILLIONAIRE TYCOON...
ASSOCIATED PRESS LIVE VIDEO
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 54.34 points.
The NASDAQ down 62.11 points.
Tonight in New York the price of oil slightly at 60 dollars 79 cents a barrel down 15 cents...Marketwatch
The former leader of the Irish Nationalist Sinn Fein party Gerry Adams awarded 100,000 euros (113,000 US dollars) in a libel case against the BBC.
A British court found a claim that Adams was involved in the 2005 murder of a spy inside the party to be false.
The Sinn Fein party long considered the political wing of the militant leftist Irish Republican Army which is in and of itself widely considered to be a terrorist organization...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
IN SINGAPORE THE SHANGRI-LA SECURITY FORUM WITH THE US, CHINA AND OTHER NATIONS REPRESENTED.
FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON TOLD THE GATHERING ABOUT A VISION FOR EUROPEAN UNITY WITH INDIA AND ASIAN NATIONS ON MATTERS OF SECURITY AND TRADE...TASS RUSSIA...
"instead of pressuring jihadist terrorists, Macron wants to reward them with a Palestinian state"
A SHARP REBUKE OF THE FRENCH PRESIDENT FROM ISRAEL'S FOREIGN MINISTRY ON SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY.
EARLIER IN THE DAY MR. MACRON CALLED FOR MORE HUMANITARIAN AID IN GAZA AND AN EVENTUAL TWO-STATE SOLUTION AS REPORTED ON LATER IN THIS SUMMARY...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
"totally violated its agreement with us"
President Trump on social media slamming China over its failure to adhere to an interim understanding.
The US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer saying Chinese barriers to trade were still up after talks in Geneva earlier this month reached agreement on their removal.
China responding saying that the US:
"cease discriminatory restrictions against China"..
BBC NEWS
TRUTH SOCIAL
Energy bills in the Netherlands on the rise. That's due to construction of giant wind farms in the North Sea.
This wind farm energy scheme has already curtailed the Dutch fishing industry.
The 88 billion euros (99.704 billion US dollars) spent in the next 15 years will continue to feed higher energy costs for consumers in the Netherlands...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
US ENVOY KEITH KELLOGG SUGGESTING THE US MAY STOP EASTWARDS EXPANSION OF NATO IN ANY UKRAINE WAR DEAL WITH RUSSIA.
KELLOGG NOTING NATO'S EASTWARD EXPANSION OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES HAS BECOME A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE FOR RUSSIA.
KELLOGG ACKNOWLEDGING THAT UKRAINE WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO JOIN NATO AND THAT MAY END UP EXTENDING TO OTHER NATIONS NEAR RUSSIA LIKE GEORGIA AND MOLDOVA...TASS RUSSIA
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar briefly stood in today for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Mr. Netanyahu underwent a colonoscopy. Around two and a half year ago another colonoscopy found benign polyps that were removed...Israel National News
"The humanitarian blockade is creating a situation that is untenable on the ground...
If there is no response that meets the humanitarian situation in the coming hours and days, obviously we will have to toughen our collective position"
FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON SPEAKING ABOUT THE SITUATION IN GAZA TODAY.
HE SUGGESTED SANCTIONS ON ISRAEL RELATED TO JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA (THE WEST BANK).
MACRON SAYING THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION IS A TWO-STATE SOLUTION THAT INCLUDES A PALESTINIAN STATE...INDIA TODAY
The Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team involving the US and ten other nations making accusations against North Korea and Russia.
A 29-page report saying military cooperation between Russia and North Korea involves flagrant violations of UN sanctions.
North Korea and Russia have shipped arms to each other, and Russia has trained North Korean soldiers who fought in the Ukraine War.
North Korean support has helped Russia in its war effort in Ukraine according to the report...ASSOCIATED PRESS USA-ASAHI SHIMBUN JAPAN
AN OFFICIAL OF HAMAS SAYING THE PROPOSAL OF THE UNITED STATES REGARDING A CEASFIRE WOULD ONLY RESULT IN 'THE CONTINUATON OF THE KILLING AND FAMINE' IN GAZA.
HAMAS SAYING THE PROPOSAL IS STILL UNDER DISCUSSION.
THE FINAL DECISION EXPECTED TO EMERGE LATER TODAY ON NEWSDUMP FRIDAY...AL JAZEERA QATAR
In Washington DC controversy as a Conservative Christian was fired from his position as Vice-President of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Floyd Brown was contacted by CNN regarding his views on traditional marriage and gay influence over the Republican Party.
Firing Brown Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell a key gay player in the Trump Administration...Floyd Brown "X" Post
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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