Monday, October 19, 2026

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 10/19/2026*CURFEWS IN FRANCE*PAK MILITARY CHIEF VISITING IRAN MEDIATION WITH US*FLORIDA MURDER CHARGES RAUL CASTRO*ISRAELI POLICE DETAIN ATTACK SUSPECTS*YEMEN WAR*RUSSIAN FM MEETS IRAN PRES*

 


                           (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH MONDAY EVENING)




                    LATE NEWS TONIGHT:



CURFEWS IN SOME FRENCH CITIES TONIGHT INCLUDING A GENERAL CURFEW IN CERTAIN PARTS OF PARIS BETWEEN 11 PM AND 6 AM.


BUT IN THE NORTHERN CITY OF LILLE AND THE SOUTHERN CITY OF NICE CURFEWS INVOLVING MINORS HAVE BEEN IMPOSED.


THIS FOLLOWS ISOLATED ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND LOOTING ON THE SIDELINES OF RECENT STUDENT PROTESTS OVER SCHOOL CONDITIONS AND GENERAL PROTESTS OVER THE COST OF LIVING.


DURING THE DAY A BAN ON PROTESTS AND GATHERINGS IN THE SOUTHERN CITY OF MARSEILLE...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




            "hundreds of thousands of shekels"


Those words from Jonatan Urich an aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describing the money he received from Qatar between 2021 and 2024.


Mr. Urich speaking those words under interrogation by Israeli police probing the "Qatargate" scandal in which aides to Mr. Netanyahu received cash to help improve the image of Qatar.


Urich's work continued even after the Hamas attack on Israel in October of 2023 by the Qatari-financed Hamas organization based in Gaza.


Mr. Urich has been indicted in another scandal involving the leaking of classified information to the German newsmagazine "Bild".


The revelation of Mr. Urich's interrogation in Israeli media coming days before Israel's election...Times Of Israel






PAKISTAN'S MILITARY CHIEF VISITING IRAN TOMORROW.    THIS ACCORDING TO IRANIAN MEDIA.  


FIELD MARSHAL ASIM MUNIR IS THE POWER BEHIND PAKISTAN'S CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT AND CONNECTED TO US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.


MUNIR'S VISIT LINKED TO MEDIATION OF THE IRAN WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES...TASNIM NEWS AGENCY IRAN (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




IRAN'S NAVY SAYS THE US ATTACKED A BASE ON THE SOUTHEASTRN COAST OF IRAN THIS MORNING.

TWO WOUNDED IN THE ATTACK...AL-JAZEERA-DAWN PAKISTAN





A Florida state court issuing an arrest warrant for former Cuban President and Defense Minister Raul Castro.


Florida's Attorney General James Uthmeier says that Castro is charged with conspiracy to commit first degree murder.


Mr. Castro already facing a federal indictment in the US for the 1996 shoot down of two aircraft that killed four men in waters between Cuba and the United States.


The "Brothers to the Rescue" aircraft were seeking to assist Cubans in boats trying to reach the United States...NBC Miami




UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY SAYS THERE WAS NO EARLY WARNING FROM NATIONS SUPPORTING UKRAINE WHEN 16 RUSSIAN MISSILES HIT KIEV THIS MORNING.


ONE PERSON KILLED IN THE ATTACK WITH POWER KNOCKED OUT TO MORE THAN HALF A MILLION PEOPLE.


RUSSIA CHARACTERIZING ITS ATTACKS ON UKRAINE EARLY TODAY AS 'MASSIVE' AND VERY SUCCESSFUL...NEWS AGENCIES-DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY




In Israel police detained 10 suspects in the nationalist attacks on a Washington Post photojournalist and European Union officials in the "West Bank".


Evidence linking them to the attacks was found.    Police also seized vehicles...Times Of Israel




At least 12 migrants have died in two separate incidents in the Aegean Sea.


Greek authorities speak of one incident where six people were killed when a migrant speedboat collided with a police patrol boat.


Six others died when their boat capsized.



22 people rescued from both incidents.   A 37-year-old Turkish man arrested as a suspected migrant smuggler...News Agencies-Deutsche Welle Germany




(UPDATED) IN THE YEMEN WAR 50 KILLED IN A HOUTHI ATTACK ON A GOVERNMENT MILITARY CAMP.

THERE WAS AN ATTACK ALERT IN SAUDI ARABIA THIS AFTERNOON.

SAUDI AUTHORITIES WARNING THE PUBLIC NOT TO POST VIDEOS RELATED TO THE ALERT...DAWN PAKISTAN MIDDLE EAST WAR BLOG



The markets today.

The Dow Jones Industrial  Average down 36.38 points.

The NASDAQ rising 290.85 points or 1.11 percent.

At 443 pm New York Time the price of oil 103 dollars 89 cents a barrel up two dollars 48 cents or 2.45 percent...Marketwatch



IN TEHRAN TODAY IRAN'S PRESIDENT RECEIVING RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER.   

MASOUD PEZESHKIAN MEETING SERGEI LAVROV AMID THE US-IRAN WAR STALEMATE.

THE MEETING ALSO TAKING PLACE IN THE CONTEXT OF APPARENT US OVERTURES TO RUSSIA RELATED TO THE UKRAINE WAR.

PRESIDENT TRUMP DEFERRING HARSH SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA AND THIRD COUNTRIES WHILE STARLINK SATELLITE SERVICES ASSISTING UKRAINE'S WAR EFFORT WERE SLOWED DOWN FOR A WHILE LAST WEEK...TASS RUSSIA

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