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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
DARLINE GRAHAM NORDONE, THE SISTER OF THE LATE US SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM, APPOINTED TO COMPLETE HIS TERM...THE HILL USA
US President Donald Trump resuming the naval blockade of Iran.
Mr. Trump speaking of the US as the 'protector' of the Strait of Hormuz.
In accordance with the War Powers Act Mr. Trump notifying Congress that hostilities against Iran are underway...The Hill USA...OSINTdefender "X"
THE GOVERNMENT OF YEMEN, BACKED BY SAUDI ARABIA, ATTACKING AN AIRPORT IN THE HOUTHI CONTROLLED PART OF YEMEN TO GROUND AIRLINE TRAFFIC BETWEEN IRAN AND THE HOUTHI REGION.
A wildfire raging in the Fountainbleau forest near Paris. More than 1000 hectares (2471 acres) consumed by the inferno.
Hundreds of firefighters and firefighting planes deployed to combat the blaze amid record hot weather in many parts of France...BFM-TV France Blog
13 killed and 5 injured in an accident involving a pickup truck accident on the Indonesian island of Java.
When the pickup truck attempted to make a U-turn, it was struck by an oncoming truck and ended up being pushed into the path of another truck...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
Moroccan journalist Ali Lmrabet arrested upon arrival in Tangier accused of 'spreading false information'.
Lmrabet has been based in Barcelona in recent years.
The Reporters Without Borders organization expressing concern about his arrest.
Lmrabet was sentenced to prison in 2003 after being accused of 'insulting the king'. He received a royal pardon but was banned from journalism for 10 years...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
IRAN SAYS IT'S MAINTAINING CONTACT WITH NEARBY COUNTRIES AMID THE CONFLICT WITH THE US OVER THE WEEKEND.
FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN EMSMAEIL BAGHAEI SAYS CONTACTS WITH PAKISTAN, OMAN AND QATAR ARE DESIGNED TO PREVENT FURTHER ESCALATION IN THE REGION...TASS RUSSIA
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 138.37 points or .26 percent.
The NASDAQ down 408.43 points or 1.55 percent.
At 440 pm New York Time the price of oil 78 dollars 28 cents a barrel up six dollars 87 cents or 9.62 percent...Marketwatch
In South Korea today a 20-minute circuit breaker activated to stop KOSPI stock trading.
The KOSPI had plunged more than eight percent leading to the circuit breaking action.
Stocks tumbling following the rise in Middle East tensions between the US and Iran...Yonhap News Agency South Korea
THREE WERE KILLED AND OTHERS WOUNDED IN THE MOSCOW REGION OF RUSSIA WHEN AN ATTACKING UKRAINIAN DRONE CRASHED.
350 DRONES SAID TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN ENROUTE TO THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL OVERNIGHT INTO MONDAY BY RUSSIA'S AIR DEFENSES...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)
(News, Comment, Analysis)
Israel moving towards an expected October 27th election. It's the last possible date for the next election under Israeli law.
Parliament this week will rush to pass controversial pieces of legislation the government will run on as it seeks re-election.
Some of the laws likely to be torpedoed by Israel's courts but the controversy may be exactly what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies seek to fuel their supporters for the campaign.
Political polling suggests less support for Mr. Netanyahu's party and rapidly rising support for a party headed by former Chief of Staff General Gadi Eisenkot.
Eisenkot was a military secretary to former Prime Minister Ehud Barak elected in 1999 with the backing of then US President Bill Clinton's political consultants James Carville and Paul Begala.
Mr. Barak ensnared in controversy in recent years for his ties to financier-child sex offender-trafficker the late Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein victim the late Virginia Guiffre wrote of being sexually abused by a 'well-known former prime minister' in some versions of her autobiography published in countries with less stringent libel laws.
THE UNITED STATES DID NOT WANT THE VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION LEADER MARIA CORINA MACHADO TO RETURN TO VENEZUELA FOLLOWING LAST MONTH'S DOUBLE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.
MACHADO DID MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO RETURN TO VENEZUELA THROUGH THE DUTCH ISLAND OF CURACAO OFF VENEZUELA'S COAST.
WHEN IT BECAME CLEAR THE US DID NOT WANT MACHADO TO RETURN, THE NETHERLANDS AMBASSADOR TO THE US BIRGITTA TAZELAAR WITHDREW PERMISSION FOR MACHADO TO TRAVEL THROUGH CURACAO.
MACHADO'S PLANE THEN TURNED BACK TO THE US.
THE UNITED STATES SAID TO BELIEVE THAT VICE-PRESIDENT DELCY RODRIGUEZ OF THE CURRENT REGIME SHOULD GOVERN FOR THE MOMENT AND THAT MACHADO WOULD BE A DISRUPTIVE INFLUENCE...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
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