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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
FIVE PEOPLE WOUNDED IN A UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK ON THE WESTERN MOSCOW SUBURB OF KRASNOGORSK.
THE DRONE FLYING INTO A 14TH FLOOR APARTMENT ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE MOSCOW REGION...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT) (PHOTO EMBED)
LATE THIS EVENING US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ON SOCIAL MEDIA SAYING 'ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED'.
TRUMP'S MESSAGING CITING A 'FAKE' COMMERCIAL CANADA IS RUNNING USING PORTIONS OF A SPEECH BY FORMER US PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN CRITICIZING TARIFFS.
THE PRESIDENT SAYING THIS CONSTITUTES INTERFERENCE IN AN UPCOMING US SUPREME COURT DECISION ON THE LEGALITY OF HIS TARIFFS...OSINTdefender "X" (Includes Image Of Trump Post)
"Yes, of course, they're serious for us. That's clear and they will have certain consequences.
But overall, they won't seriously affect our economic well-being"
Russian President Vladimir Putin reacting to the new US sanctions crackdown on Russia's oil exports.
Putin downplaying major significance to the new sanctions but admitting they are 'clearly an attempt to put pressure on Russia'.
He said that any 'self-respecting country and self-respecting people' do not make decisions under such pressure...DD Geopolitics "X" (Video Embed)
President Trump reversing Biden Administration policy restricting oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
Trump deciding to approve projects that will open up 1.56 million acres of land.
One planned road will also enable cobalt and copper mining...The Hill USA
A political debate in the Netherlands tonight ahead of next Wednesday's election.
The leaders of the four parties polling best faced off.
Three of them slamming the fourth Dutch Party of Freedom leader Geert Wilders.
They said the PVV will be kept out of any new coalition government that emerges from the election...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
THE RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY DENYING AN ALLEGATION FROM LITHUANIA REGARDING RUSSIAN MILITARY PLANES OVER ITS TERRITORY.
LITHUANIA CLAIMING THAT AN SU-30 WARPLANE AND IL-78 REFUELING PLANE SPENT 18 SECONDS OVER ITS AIRSPACE.
THE PLANES FLYING OVER RUSSIA'S LANDLOCKED KALININGRAD TERRITORY IN THE BALTIC REGION...TASS RUSSIA
Democrats in the US Senate blocking legislation to pay the US military and other essential federal employees during the government shutdown.
The 54-45 vote short of the 60 votes needed to move the bill forward to final passage...The Hill USA
BRITISH POLICE ARRESTING THREE MEN ON CHARGES OF SPYING FOR RUSSIA. THE SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN THE WEST END AND CENTER OF LONDON.
OTHERS WERE ARRESTED IN THE UK EARLIER THIS YEAR ACCUSED OF SPYING FOR RUSSIA.
CHARGES RECENTLY DROPPED BY BRITISH AUTHORITIES AGAINST SUSPECTS ACCUSED OF SPYING FOR CHINA DUE TO A LACK OF EVIDENCE...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
"The US is our adversary, and its verbose 'peacemaker' is now firmly on the warpath against Russia"
THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF RUSSIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL REACTING TO THE LATEST ROUND OF US ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA, ALSO THE US DECISION TO ALLOW LONG-RANGE MISSILE ATTACKS ON RUSSIA.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV SAYING THOSE DECISIONS ARE AN 'ACT OF WAR'...Jerusalem Post Israel
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 144.20 points or .31 percent.
The NASDAQ up 201.40 points or .89 percent.
At 505 pm New York Time the price of oil rising sharply to 61 dollars 71 cents a barrel a rise of three dollars 21 cents or 5.47 percent...Marketwatch
President Trump pardoning Chinese born Canadian billionaire Changpeng Zhao founder and former CEO of Binance.
He served a prison sentence after pleading guilty to a money laundering charge in 2023...OSINTdefender "X"
AN NBA PLAYER AND COACH AMONG THOSE ARRESTED IN A FEDERAL BETTING PROBE.
MIAMI HEAT GUARD TERRY ROZIER AND PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS COACH CHAUNCEY BILLUPS AMONG 34 PEOPLE CHARGED ACROSS 11 STATES.
FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL SAYING TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND FOUR 'MAFIA FAMILIES' WERE INVOLVED IN THE ALLEGED SCHEME...ESPN USA...BBC NEWS BLOG
"I gave my word to the Arab countries. And you can't do that now...
It will not happen. Israel would lose all support from the United States if that happened."
Those words from US President Donald Trump. Trump questioned by "Time" magazine about the notion of Israel annexing Judea and Samaria ("The West Bank")...Times of Israel
US SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO SAYS THIS WEEK'S VOTE IN ISRAEL'S PARLIAMENT FOR LEGISLATION TO ANNEX JUDEA AND SAMARIA (THE WEST BANK) COULD THREATEN PRESIDENT TRUMP'S GAZA PLAN.
RUBIO SPEAKING AHEAD OF HIS VISIT TO ISRAEL ON THE HEELS OF VICE-PRESIDENT JD VANCE'S VISIT TO ISRAEL THIS WEEK. BOTH VISITS DESIGNED TO KEEP MOMENTUM MOVING FORWARD ON THE TRUMP PLAN...TIMES OF ISRAEL
A wave of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley today...Times of Israel
SOURCES TELL BBC NEWS THAT FRANCE IS BACKING AWAY FROM PLEDGES TO STOP MIGRANT BOATS FROM CROSSING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.
THIS IS LINKED TO POLITICAL TURMOIL IN FRANCE...(BBC NEWS)...
MEANWHILE A BRITISH GOVERNMENT MINISTER SAYS MIGRANTS WILL BE SENT BACK TO FRANCE 'AGAIN AND AGAIN'.
THIS AFTER AN IRANIAN MAN SENT BACK TO FRANCE CAME ACROSS THE CHANNEL FOR A SECOND TIME...THE INDEPENDENT UK
New restrictions on critical software exports to China under consideration by the Trump Administration.
The export restrictions mirror those imposed on Russia after the start of the Ukraine War.
The software export ban under consideration as retaliation for China's announced ban on rare earths exports...Bloomberg-The Japan Times
NORTH KOREA SAYS IT SUCCESSFULLY TESTED TWO HYPERSONIC MISSILES YESTERDAY.
STATE MEDIA SAYING THE MISSILES SUCCESSFULLY HIT A TARGET. SOUTH KOREA SAID THE PROJECTILES TRAVELED FOR A DISTANCE OF 350 KILOMETERS...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA
Three inmates at La Sante prison in Paris arrested for threatening fellow inmate former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Their threats followed Sarkozy's arrival at the lockup yesterday to serve a five-year sentence after a corruption conviction.
He is being isolated from other inmates and has two armed police officers with him at all times...UNN News Ukraine
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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