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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
A missile fired from Yemen intercepted by Israeli air defenses early Thursday morning...Israel National News
A SERIES OF POWERFUL EXPLOSIONS GOING OFF LATE TONIGHT IN KIEV AMIDST A RUSSIAN ATTACK ON THE CITY...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WRITING A LETTER CONDEMNING CENSORSHIP OF THE INTERNET IN BRAZIL AND THE PROSECUTION OF FORMER PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO ON JANUARY 6TH-TYPE CHARGES.
IN THE LETTER TO CURRENT BRAILIAN PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA MR. TRUMP ANNOUNCING A 50 PERCENT TARIFF ON BRAZILIAN GOODS EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1ST.
HE WARNS ANY RETALIATION BY BRAZIL WILL TRIGGER EVEN HIGHER TARIFFS...GLENN GREENWALD "X"...
EARLIER TODAY THE US AMBASSADOR WAS SUMMONED BY BRAZIL'S GOVERNMENT AND TOLD PRESIDENT'S TRUMP'S POST CONDEMNING MR. BOLSONARO'S PROSECUTION WAS AN 'UNACCEPTABLE INTRUSTION'.
The US sanctioning the UN human rights investigator for Palestinians in Israel Italian lawyer Francesca Albanese.
Albanese has detailed Israeli actions in Judea, Samaria and Gaza describing them as 'genocide' and other violations of human rights.
Prior to sanctioning her the US pressured the UN to remove Albanese from her post.
This latest US move against Albanese comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on a four-day visit to Washington DC...Associated Press USA
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV MEETING US SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO IN MALAYSIA TOMORROW.
THEIR MEETING ON THE SIDELINES OF A FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS...DEVDISCOURSE...
AFTER THAT MEETING MR. LAVROV HEADED TO NORTH KOREA FOR A VISIT SET TO LAST UNTIL SUNDAY...(TASS RUSSIA)
Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissing Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. Bogdanov also held the title of Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa.
Mr. Bogdanov telling the media his age 73 led him to seek retirement...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)
The US Embassy in Yemen says crew members of a merchant ship that sank in Red Sea have been taken captive by the Houthi forces.
The US calling for the 'immediate and unconditional safe release" of crew members of the "Eternity C" attacked and sunk by the Houthis in the Red Sea...Anadolu Agency Turkey (Türkiye)
HAMAS SAYS IT WANTS TO RELEASE SOME OF THE HOSTAGES IT'S HOLDING IN GAZA.
WORD THAT HAMAS WILL RELEASE 10 HOSTAGES AS A GOOD WILL GESTURE TO ADVANCE THE CEASEFIRE TALKS WITH ISRAEL NOW GOING ON THROUGH INTERMEDIARIES IN QATAR...TASS RUSSIA
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP MEETING WITH THE LEADERS OF FIVE WEST AFRICAN NATIONS AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY ISSUES AMONG THOSE ON THE TABLE.
THE GROUP OF NATIONS HAVE VARIOUS RESOURCES THAT MAY BE USEFUL TO THE UNTED STATES AND THEY ARE CLOSE TO A GROUP OF AFRICAN NATIONS WITH INCREASINGLY CLOSE TIES TO RUSSIA...AL JAZEERA QATAR
CALIFORNIA IS BEING SUED BY THE US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FOR ALLOWING BIOLOGICAL MALES TO PARTICIPATE IN FEMALE SCHOOL ATHLETICS.
CALIFORNIA ACCUSED OF VIOLATING THE FEDERAL TITLE IX LAW PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST FEMALE ATHLETES...THE HILL USA
French police in tactical gear raided the headquarters of the opposition National Rally (RN) this morning accompanied by two investigating judges.
All emails, documents and accounting records of the party seized by the authorities.
Authorities looking at financial records of the nationalistic political party leading political polls in France.
Suspicions aroused about the party's sources of financing.
RN President Jordan Bardella saying on social media:
"This display of force has only one purpose: to provide a spectacle for news channels, to rummage through the correspondence of the leading opposition party, to seize all our internal documents.
Nothing to do with justice, everything to do with politics"...Jordan Bardella "X" (In French, Translation Available)...
Other party officials denouncing the police raid as harassment of the party...BFM-TV France (Translation Prompt)...
Meanwhile the European Court of Human Rights rejecting a request from National Rally leader in France's National Assembly Marine Le Pen.
Le Pen had asked for her suspension from politics to be nullified.
That suspension part of a sentence involving her conviction for alleged corruption. Le Pen still appealing in the French court system as she remains the most popular candidate in the first round of France's 2027 presidential election...BFM-TV France
ALSO, TODAY THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS DETERMINED RUSSIAN RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DEADLY SHOOT DOWN OF A MALAYSIAN AIRLINER IN 2014.
THE INCIDENT HAPPENING IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN URKAINE AND ITS RUSSIAN SPEAKING POPULATION IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.
THAT EIGHT-YEAR CONFLICT CULMINATED WITH RUSSIAN MILITARY INTERVENTION IN MARCH OF 2022...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 217.54 points or .49 percent.
The NASDAQ rose 192.87 points or .94 percent.
At 432 pm New York Time the price of oil at 68 dollars 30 cents a barrel up three cents...Marketwatch
Linda Yaccarino stepping down as the CEO of social media giant "X". Yaccarino expressing her thanks to "X" owner Elon Musk...The Hill
A TURKISH COURT BANNING THE 'GROK' AI CHATBOT OF ELON MUSK'S 'X' SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM.
THE CHATBOT ACCUSED OF OFFENSIVE CONTENT CRITICAL OF TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, HIS FAMILY AND OTHERS...NEWS AGENCIES-TIMES OF ISRAEL
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova calling on the 'reasonable part of the world community' to condemn last night's deadly Ukrainian attack on a beach in the Kursk Region of Russia.
Three killed and seven wounded in the attack...Tass Russia
THE GOVERNMENT OF EASTERN LIBYA IN BENGHAZI EXPELLING A EUROPEAN UNION DELEGATION.
THE EU DELEGATION HAD HELD TALKS WITH THE WESTERN LIBYAN GOVERNMENT IN TRIPOLI PRIOR TO ARRIVING IN BENGHAZI.
IT WAS LED BY THE EUROPEAN MINISTER OF MIGRATION WHO WAS HOPING TO MEET THE EASTERN LIBYAN LEADER GENERAL KHALIFA HAFTAR,
STOPPING MIGRATION FROM LIBYA TOWARDS EUROPE A MAJOR CONCERN OF THE EUROPEAN UNION.
BUT UPON ARRIVAL THE EASTERN LIBYAN GOVERNMENT DECLARING THE GROUP 'PERSONA NON GRATA' SPEAKING OF 'FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL NORMS AND DIPLOMATIC CONVENTIONS'...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
The BBC out with a report about the former leader of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina and the violence that led to her overthrow last year.
An audio recording of Hasina at the center of the story in which she is heard authorizing the use of 'lethal weapons'.
1,400 killed in the protests last year leading to installation of a new government more friendly to Western nations.
Sheikh Hasina alleged the US was pressuring her to use an island off the western coast of civil war torn Myanmar. She is now in exile in India.
The new government putting Hasina on trial in absentia...BBC News
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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