NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 7/6/2026*MILLIONS MOURN IRAN LEADER*TANKER HIT IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ*HAMAS GIVES UP POLITICAL POWER IN GAZA*RUSSIA WARNS LATVIA UKRAINIAN DRONES*OPPOSITION TO ISRAEL CRITIC UNIFIED IN DEM PRIMARY*
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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
MILLIONS OF MOURNERS ON THE STREETS OF TEHRAN FOR THE FUNERAL PROCESSION OF AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI ASSASSINATED BY ISRAEL AT THE START OF THE IRAN WAR ON FEBURARY 28TH.
THE MOURNERS DRESSED IN BLACK AND BEATING THEIR CHESTS DURING THE PROCESSION...
(UPDATED) TONIGHT A TANKER HIT BY A PROJECTILE IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ OFF THE COAST OF OMAN. A FIRE IGNITED BUT NO CASUALTIES REPORTED...UKMTO "X"...
AMPLIFYING THIS STORY ARE US SOURCES TELLING INSIDER JOURNALIST BARAK RAVID (AXIOS, CHANNEL 12 ISRAEL, CNN) OF TWO VESSELS BEING HIT AND DAMAGED IN THE STRAIT TONIGHT.
In Russia tonight heavy Ukrainian attacks on the city of Belgorod and the Belgorod Region near the Ukraine border. No casualties reported with an 'infrastructure facility' hit causing a fire...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)...
Ukrainian drones attacking Moscow have also been downed late tonight...(RIA Novosti Russia)
(This Story Is Being Updated)
IN MAINE DEMOCRAT US SENATE CANDIDATE GRAHAM PLATNER BEING FORCED OUT OF THE RACE.
HE DID NOT MAKE CAMPAIGN APPEARANCES IN RECENT DAYS.
A SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATION INVOLVING PLATNER PUBLISHED THIS AFTERNOON.
PLATNER DENIES THE ALLEGATION.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY PERSONALTIES, ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADERSHIP URGING MR. PLATNER TO WITHDRAW HIS CANDIDACY...POLITICO...ASSOCIATED PRESS-AL JAZEERA QATAR
(Updated-Corrected) In the last 24 hours a controversy surrounding the World Cup of soccer (football) underway in the US.
US President Donald Trump intervening with FIFA President Gianni Infantino to urge reversal of a one-game suspension for US star player Folarin Balogun.
Balogun's suspension lifted following Trump's intervention.
The "red card" given to Balogun after he stepped on the knee of a player for the team from Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Belgium is appealing the reversal of Balogun's suspension...The Hill USA...
Meanwhile FIFA deciding to fine Balogun 40,000 dollars with US Soccer to pay half of it...Tass Russia
AT LEAST 25 KILLED AND ALMOST 100 INJURED IN A PRISON RIOT IN SRI LANKA.
CASUALTIES AMONG PRISONERS AND PRISON STAFF.
In southern Lebanon four killed in an Israeli drone attack on a car.
A woman identified as a school principal along with her mother, a domestic worker and a Syrian national killed in the attack...Al Jazeera Qatar
HAMAS GIVES UP POLITICAL POWER IN GAZA TO NEW TECHNOCRATIC GROUP
(NEWS, COMMENT ANALYSIS)
IN GAZA HAMAS RELINQUISHING GOVERNING POWER WITH ITS LEADERSHIP SAYING THERE IS NO LONGER ANY EXCUSE FOR ISRAEL TO CONTINUE ATTACKING THE TERRITORY.
MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE KILLED BY ISRAELI ATTACKS IN GAZA SINCE THE 'CEASEFIRE' WAS PROCLAIMED LAST FALL BY US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
THE HAMAS MOVE LINKED TO THE WORK OF THE 'BOARD OF PEACE' WHICH ESTABLISHING A NEW COMMITTEE TO RUN GAZA DESCRIBED AS TECHNOCRATIC.
THE HAMAS GROUP SUDDENLY APPEARED IN GAZA BACK IN 2007 SEIZING CONTROL OF THE ENCLAVE BY FORCE FROM THE LEFTIST FATAH MOVEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY BASED IN RAMALLAH.
IT IS BELIEVED BY MANY THAT ISRAEL ENABLED THIS TO HAPPEN IN ORDER TO DIVIDE PALESTINIANS AND IMPEDE MOMENTUM TOWARDS A PALESTINIAN STATE...AL JAZEERA QATAR
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 155.84 points or .29 percent.
The NASDAQ up 288.49 points or 1.12 percent.
At 433 pm New York Time the price of oil 68 dollars 69 cents a barrel no change in price...Marketwatch
WEEKLONG CHINA-RUSSIA NAVAL DRILLS BEGINNING AT THE CHINESE NAVAL BASE IN QINGDAO.
RUSSIAN REAR ADMIRAL SERGEI SINKO SPEAKING OF THE DRILLS BEING DEFENSIVE IN NATURE AND NOT DIRECTED AGAINST ANY THIRD COUNTRY...TASS RUSSIA
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin warning Latvia about launching Ukrainian drones to attack Russia.
Galuzin noting Russia's SVR intelligence has warned about such a possibility and detected the presence of Ukrainian drone operators at Latvian military bases.
He said Latvia would be mistaken if it thinks it would get away with allowing Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia using its NATO membership as an umbrella.
Mr. Galuzin's comments come just ahead of the NATO summit in Turkey (Türkiye)...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)
THE DEMOCRAT US SENATE PRIMARY IN MICHIGAN NARROWED TO A 'MODERATE' VERSUS 'PROGRESSIVE' CONTEST.
CANDIDIATE MALLORY MCMORROW SUSPENDING HER CAMPAIGN SUNDAY.
THAT LEAVES THE CONTEST AS A TWO-WAY RACE BETWEEN HALEY STEVENS AND ABDUL EL-SAYED.
MR. EL-SAYED CONSIDRED THE 'EXTREME' CANDIDATE WITH HIS CRITICISM OF ISRAEL FIGURING PROMINENTLY IN THE CONTEST.
EL-SAYED ISSUING A STATEMENT FOLLOWING MCMORROW'S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE RACE.
HE NOTED HE IS IN A FIGHT AGAINST THE DEMOCRAT PARTY ESTABLISHMENT, LARGE CORPORATIONS AND THE AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE (AIPAC)...THE HILL USA
In the UK MP Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK Party, being accused of accepting undeclared gifts. A referral made to a parliamentary standards watchdog.
Those undeclared gifts linked to crypto investor George Cottrell.
There have been similar allegations involving crypto currency billionaire Christopher Harborne.
Now in both cases Mr. Farage saying the gifts were in a personal capacity not linked to political activities meaning no rules were broken.
Fellow Reform MP Robert Jenrick speaking of 'old cows being pulled out of the ditch by the media'...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
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