Wednesday, October 29, 2025

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 10/29/2025*TRUMP TALKS NUKE WEAPONS TESTS AHEAD OF XI MEETING*DUTCH ELECTION*ISRAELI LEGISLATION TO BREAK POWER OF AG PROSECUTING NETANYHU*TALKS BREAK DOWN IN AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN CONFLICT*

 


                       (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING)


The election in the Netherlands but first....



                    LATE NEWS TONIGHT:


An air raid alert across Ukraine on Thursday morning local time...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)



ITS THURSDAY IN SOUTH KOREA WHERE US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS BEGUN A MEETING WITH CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING.


TRUMP TOUTING THE NOTION OF A 'VERY SUCCESSFUL MEETING' AS THE LEADERS APPEARED BEFORE THE CAMERAS AHEAD OF THEIR DISCUSSION...(NEWS AGENCIES)






US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announcing another deadly US attack on a boat linked to drug trafficking.    Four killed in the attack labeled as suspected members of a "Designated Terrorist Organization" (DTO)...OSINTdefender "X" (Video Embed) 



US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP MESSAGING ON SOCIAL MEDIA TONIGHT THAT THE US INTENDS TO CONDUCT NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS.


TRUMP CITING OTHER COUNTRIES NUCLEAR TESTS RUSSIA AND CHINA IN PARTICULAR.


THE SOCIAL MEDIA POST HOURS AHEAD OF HIS MEETING WITH CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING IN SOUTH KOREA...DONALD J. TRUMP TRUTH SOCIAL POST



The US intends a 'show of force' in the South China Sea.   President Trump is said to have issued the order.



The notion of Chinese aggression cited in connection with the plan.


The news leaking out as President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea in the coming hours...CBS News USA



IN SOUTHERN SYRIA ARAB TRIBES AND SYRIAN GOVERNMENT FORCES REPORTED ATTACKING DRUZE NEIGHBORHOODS.


THE ISRAELI MILITARY HAS INTERVENED ON BEHALF OF THE DRUZE IN THE PAST...TASS RUSSIA



The judges at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial rejecting a second request by his defense lawyers to limit court hearings.


Those lawyers argue the four days of hearings prevent them from defending other clients.



The court noting one of its three judges is headed for retirement.


Mr. Netanyahu's corruption trial now stretching out into its sixth year...Times of Israel




The death toll from the police operation against drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro is now 132.


Authorities still say that four police officers died but additional bodies were brought out by residents of the neighborhood where yesterday's firefight occurred...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)




THOUSANDS REPORTED KILLED IN SUDAN'S CIVIL WAR IN THE LAST 48 HOURS AS THE RAPID SUPPORT FORCES PARAMILITARY GROUP TOOK CONTROL OF THE CITY OF EL-FASHER.


ACCORDING TO THE SUDANESE MILITARY GOVERNMENT FIGHTING THE RSF THERE HAVE BEEN MASS KILLINGS AND MASS RAPES IN THE AREA...FRANCE 24



The US Federal Reserve Board lowering interest rates by .25 percent...(News Agencies)



                       THE DUTCH ELECTION

                                                      (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)





A SECOND ELECTION PROJECTION IN THE NETHERLANDS BROUGHT THE "D66" PARTY DOWN ONE SEAT AND THE "PVV" PARTY OF FREEDOM RAISED ONE SEAT.


BOTH PARTIES AT 26 SEATS...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




                   (THE EARLIER ELECTION NEWS)



IT'S ELECTION DAY IN THE NETHERLANDS.   


THE SNAP ELECTION CALLED TO RESOLVE POLICY CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE FOUR PARTIES IN THE OUTGOING GOVERNMENT LED BY FORMER DUTCH INTELLIGENCE CHIEF DICK SCHOOF.


THE DUTCH PARTY OF FREEDOM LED BY PRO-ISRAEL, ANTI-MASS IMMIGRATION GEERT WILDERS WON THE MOST SEATS IN THE PREVIOUS ELECTION.


BUT MR. WILDERS WAS NOT ALLOWED TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER.


THE EXIT POLL RELEASED TONIGHT SHOWING THE SOCIAL LIBERAL "D66" PARTY AT 27 SEATS WITH THE PARTY OF FREEDOM AT 25 SEATS.  


THE LIBERAL PARTY (CAPITALIST) VVD AT 23 SEATS. 


THE GREEN-LABOUR ALLIANCE AT 20 SEATS WITH THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS AT 19.



  NOS NETHERLANDS ELECTION NIGHT BLOG (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



       NOS NETHERLANDS EXIT POLL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



NOS NETHERLANDS ELECTION DAY VOTING BLOG (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





The markets today.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 74.37 points.


The NASDAQ rose 130.98 points or .55 percent.


At 420 pm New York Time the price of oil at 60 dollars 37 cents a barrel up 22 cents...Marketwatch



ISRAEL NOW SAYING IT WILL RETURN TO A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA AFTER ATTACKS THERE LAST NIGHT.


LOCAL AUTHORITIES CONTROLLED BY HAMAS SPEAK OF MORE THAN 100 DEATHS IN THOSE ATTACKS INCLUDING MANY CHILDREN...(NEWS AGENCIES)



Legislation passing an initial vote in Israel's parliament to gut the office of Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.


She is spearheading the prosecution of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption.


This prosecution playing out at a corruption trial often delayed by the Israeli military actions of the last two years in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria...Times Of Israel



                          (NEWS AND ANALYSIS)


TALKS TO RESOLVE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN HAVE BROKEN DOWN.



THEY WERE HELD IN QATAR AND ISTANBUL IN RECENT DAYS AFTER BOTH SIDES AGREED TO A CEASEFIRE TO END FIGHTING.


PAKISTAN EXPRESSING ITS ANGER OVER THE TALIBAN'S REFUSAL TO REIN IN MILITANT GROUPS.



DEFENSE MINISTER KHAWAJA MUHAMMAD ASIF SAYING PAKISTAN WOULD ONLY NEED TO USE A FRACTION OF ITS MILITARY POWER TO DESTROY THE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...



THE PAKISTANI MILITARY IS THE POWER BEHIND PAKISTAN'S CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT.  IT IS LED BY FIELD MARSHAL ASIM MUNIR.    


MUNIR HAS MADE SEVERAL VISITS TO THE UNITED STATES THIS YEAR INCLUDING LUNCH AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.



MR, TRUMP IS DEMANDING THAT THE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN ALLOW THE UNITED STATES USE THE BAGRAM AIR BASE IN AFGHANISTAN LIKELY FOR USE AGAINST IRAN.




President Trump has arrived in South Korea.   He is attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit alongside other leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping...OSINTdefender "X" (Video Embed)




THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FIRING MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS.


THE COMMISSION ADVISES ON ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENTS IN WASHINGTON DC INCLUDING THE NEW WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.


THE WHITE HOUSE SAYING NEW MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSSION WILL BE HIRED WHO ARE ALIGNED WITH 'PRESIDENT TRUMP'S AMERICA FIRST POLICIES'...THE HILL USA




  THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                     (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


       CASUALTIES IN UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK



                    TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS

     RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



A woman killed and a teenage girl wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Belgorod Region....Tass Russia




In other news....



THE US FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ISSUING A WARNING LETTER TO MEDICAL EQUIPMENT MAKER 'PHILLIPS'.


THIS FOLLOWS INSPECTIONS OF PHILLIPS PLANTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE NETHERLANDS.


FACILITIES PRODUCING PRODUCTS LIKE ULTRASOUND EQUIPMENT SAID TO BE FALLING SHORT OF PROPER PROCEDURES.



PHILLIPS SAYS IT TAKES THE WARNING SERIOUSLY AND IS TAKING ACTION BUT WILL NOT SHUT DOWN FACILITIES OR RECALL PRODUCTS...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

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