Sunday, August 17, 2025

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 8/17/2025*NEWSDUMP WEEKEND*NETANYAHU ADVISERS LINKED TO QATARI $$$"SECURITY GUARANTEES" TOUTED BY US, UKRAINE*STRIKE, PROTESTS OVER HOSTAGES IN ISRAEL*MORE NATIONAL GUARD TO DC*

 


(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING FINAL POSTING 1130 PM-12 MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME)



                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN UKRAINE TONIGHT IN MULTIPLE CITIES INCLUDING SUMY AND KHARKIV (KHARKOV) IN THE EAST AND ODESSA ON THE BLACK SEA COAST...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA...OSINTdefender "X" (Video Embed)




A 'CENTRIST' AND A 'RIGHT-WING' CANDIDATE ADVANCING TO THE SECOND ROUND OF BOLIVIA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.


THE CURRENTLY RULING LEFTIST PARTY WITH LOWER POPULARLITY.


FORMER LEFTIST PRESIDENT EVO MORALES TOLD HIS SUPPORTERS TO INVALIDATE THEIR BALLOTS TODAY...TASS RUSSIA...


A PRE-ELECTION STORY FEATURED LATER IN THIS SUMMARY.




In Nigeria a search underway for 40 missing people after a boat capsized.


Ten survivors pulled from the Sokoto River in the northwestern part of the country...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)



ISRAELI PUBLIC MEDIA OUTLET 'KAN' REPORTING THAT THREE ADVISERS TO PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU RECEIVED 10 MILLION DOLLARS FROM QATAR OVER A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS.



THE MONEY LINKED TO CREATING A POSITIVE IMAGE FOR THE NATION THAT WAS A PRIME BACKER OF THE HAMAS MOVEMENT IN GAZA.


A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE MATTER NOW UNDERWAY IN ISRAEL...TIMES OF ISRAEL




300,000 demonstrators at a rally in Tel Aviv this evening demanding a deal to release the hostages held in Gaza.


Former hostages from Gaza urging US President Donald Trump's intervention to secure such a deal that would also end the Gaza War.


This was the culmination of protests held across Israel today reported on later in the summary...Times Of Israel



THREE DEAD, NINE WOUNDED IN A SHOOTING ATTACK AT A BAR IN THE CROWN HEIGHTS SECTION OF BROOKLYN.


POLICE BELIEVE THE EARLY SUNDAY ATTACK WAS GANG-RELATED...ABC 7 NEW YORK




Striking Air Canada flight attendants will not comply with a government order to return to work.


The Canada Industrial Relations Board submitting the labor dispute to binding arbitration.



The Canadian Union of Public Employees saying the Liberal Party government had caved into Air Canada instead of forcing the airline into fair negotiations with workers...CBC News



THE ISRAELI NAVY ATTACKED A POWER PLANT IN YEMEN LAST NIGHT.  


MISSILE BOATS USED IN THE ATTACK ON WHAT WAS CALLED  AN 'ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SITE THAT SERVED THE HOUTHI TERRORIST REGIME'.


THE HOUTHIS IN YEMEN HAVE LAUNCHED NUMBEROUS DRONES AND MISSILES AT ISRAEL WITH ALMOST ALL OF THEM BEING TAKEN DOWN BY ISRAELI AIR DEFENSES...OSINTdefender "X"




ISRAEL'S ECONOMY SHRANK 3.5 PERCENT IN THE LAST QUARTER DUE TO THE 12-DAY-WAR WITH IRAN.


PRIVATE SPENDING DECLINED 4.1 PERCENT EXPORTS FELL 3.5 PERCENT AND BUSINESS OUTPUT EXPERIENCED A 6.2 PERCENT DECLINE...TIMES OF ISRAEL




Leaders of the UK, France and Germany joining Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House tomorrow.


A pushback against US President Donald Trump's effort for what he calls a 'peace agreement' in the Ukraine War appears to be underway.


Mr. Zelensky holding a new conference alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen laying out his position stressing the notion of a 'ceasefire' in the conflict.

But Mr. Zelensky is praising the notion of US 'security guarantees'.


White House envoy Steve Witkoff saying Russia has agreed to such guarantees on condition of Ukraine not joining NATO...BBC News Blog






 HOSTAGE FAMILIES NATIONAL STRIKE PROTESTS IN ISRAEL LEAD TO ARRESTS


                            (Story Updated When Able)


TODAY IN ISRAEL A NATIONAL STRIKE CALLED OVER THE CONDUCT OF THE GAZA WAR IN RELATION TO THE HOSTAGES HELD IN GAZA.


MAJOR EXPRESSWAYS IN ISRAEL WERE BLOCKED THIS MORNING AS PART OF THE PROTEST.


FIRES WERE LIT ON HIGHWAYS AND THERE WERE DOZENS OF ARRESTS.



A WATER CANNON WAS USED ON PROTESTERS IN A HIGHWAY TUNNEL IN JERUSALEM.



DEMONSTRATIONS OUTSIDE THE HOMES OF TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS INCLIDING STRATEGIC AFFAIRS MINISTER RON DERMER WHO MAINTAINS CLOSE CONTACT WITH TOP US OFFICIALS AND IS A MAJOR DRIVER OF ISRAEL'S WAR POLICIES INCLUDING THE GAZA WAR.



                   Times of Israel News Story (Video Embed)



                                 ...Times Of Israel Blog...




ON SATURDAY NIGHT HOSTAGE FAMILIES LEADING THE CALL FOR A COMPREHENSIVE DEAL WITH HAMAS THAT WILL RELEASE HOSTAGES HELD IN GAZA.


MASS DEMONSTRATIONS HELD AMID FEARS THAT THE ESCALATION OF ISRAELI MILITARY ACTION IN GAZA ENDANGERS THE LIVES OF THE HOSTAGES...TIMES OF ISRAEL






An Israel National Cyber Directorate employee now on leave after being arrested in the United States accused of online sexual exploitation of minors.


Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was one of eight people arrested by Las Vegas police accused of enticing minors to commit sexual acts online.



Alexandrovich returned to Israel after questioning by authorities...Jerusalem Post





PRESIDENT TRUMP REPORTED SEEKING A SUMMIT NEXT FRIDAY AUGUST 22ND BRINGING TOGETHER RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AND UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY TO WORK ON A PEACE DEAL IN THE UKRAINE WAR...TASS RUSSIA




A VIDEO CONFERENCE TODAY INVOLVING BRITISH PRIME MINISTER KEIR STARMER, FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON AND GERMAN CHANCELLOR FRIEDRICH MERZ.


THE THREE LEADERS CRAFTING THEIR RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PUSH FOR PEACE IN UKRAINE.




It's election day in Bolivia today with the incumbent Leftist Party and two parties on the right contesting the vote for president.


Not on the ballot former Leftist President Evo Morales ruled to not be eligible because he already served as President from 2006 to 2019.


Morales is holed up in a remote part of the country with his supporters resisting efforts to arrest him.  The former president accused of raping an underage girl and impregnating her.


He urges his supporters to cast an invalid vote by writing "Nulo (Null)" on the ballot...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)




IN SERBIA A FIFTH NIGHT OF VIOLENT PROTESTS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OVER ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION.


DEMONSTRATORS AND POLICE CLASHED WITH POLICE HURT AND PROTESTERS ARRESTED.



THE SERBIAN GOVERNMENT OF PRIME MINISTER ALEKSANDAR VUCIC SAYS OUTSIDE FORCES ARE BEHIND THE PROTESTS AGAINST HIS GOVERNMENT CONSIDERED FRIENDLY TO RUSSIA AND CHINA...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                               (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


RUSSIAN CLAIM OF FRENCH MERCENARIES 'WIPED OUT'



                          TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS


        RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




A Russian drone operator describing the destruction of a group of French mercenaries on right bank of the Dniepr River in Ukraine...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)



In other news...



NATIONAL GUARD FORCES FROM OHIO, SOUTH CAROLINA AND WEST VIRGINIA DEPLOYING TO WASHINGTON D.C.


THE 650-750 SOLDIERS WILL OPERATE ALONGSIDE THE 800 WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIERS IN THE CITY.


FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS ALSO BEEN DEPLOYED IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL AS PART OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 'SAFE AND BEAUTIFUL TASK FORCE'...OSINTdefender X" Post



US warships and thousands of Marines deploying to the southern Caribbean Sea on a mission to deal with drug cartels.


This will bring US military power close to Venezuela.


The US recently announced a 50-million-dollar bounty for Venezuela's Leftist ruler President Nicolas Maduro.


Maduro and other top officials in Venezuela indicted and accused by the United States of being drug kingpins and narco terrorists...OSINTdefender "X"

















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