NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 10/18/2026*NEWSDUMP WEEKEND*YEMEN WAR*LE PEN SEES GOV'T 'IMPOTENCE'*JANUARY 6TH, MACRON, THE LEFT, FRENCH PROTESTS*4 KILLED CANADA MILITARY BASE*EURO OFFICIALS ATTACKED WEST BANK CHRISTIAN VILLAGE*ISRAELI SETTLER ATTACKS*EURO ECONOMIC PROTESTS CLASHES*UKRAINE WAR*
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We are watching the latest developments in France, Canada and Israel as able but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
Nine days before Israel's election US President Donald Trump endorsing the re-election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Mr. Trump characterizing Netanyahu as 'Strong...Brave...Brilliant"...Al Jazeera Qatar
The European Union demanding 'full accountability' from Israel following yesterday's attack on diplomats from Belgium, France and Poland by Israeli nationalist settlers.
The EU foreign policy spokesperson also called for 'effective measures' to prevent nationalists from attacking Palestinians as has been the case in recent weeks during the olive harvest season...Times Of Israel
The Yemen War today the Houthis report nine killed in Saudi attacks with the Saudis saying six were wounded in a Houthi attack on Najran in southern Saudi Arabia...DAWN PAKISTAN MID-EAST WAR BLOG...
More Yemen War developments later in the summary.
FRANCE PROTEST TURMOIL
MACRON DECRIES VIOLENCE, SUPPORTS LOCAL OFFICIALS ACTING TO BAN PROTESTS AMID WIDESPREAD STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN RECENT WEEKS
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(NEWS, COMMENT, ANALYSIS)
FOLLOWING PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON'S SPEECH TONIGHT WIDESPREAD CONDEMNATION FROM OPPOSITION POLITICIANS.
SOME NOTED HE DID NOT ADDRESS CONCERNS OF THOSE PROTESTING YESTERDAY REGARDING THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.
MACRON DECRYING INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE SEEN ALONGSIDE MANY PEACEFUL PROTESTS THIS WEEKEND.
MR. MACRON SPEAKING OF 'FULL TRANSPARENCY' IN MAINTAINING ORDER SAYING THAT LOCAL OFFICIALS SHOULD MAKE DECISIONS TO BAN PROTESTS DEEMED DANGEROUS OR THREATENING.
THIS APPEARS TO GIVE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PRETEXT TO SHUT DOWN STUDENT-LED DEMONSTRATIONS OUTSIDE HIGH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES IN RECENT WEEKS.
"an exhausted disoriented Macronist power, which now seems incapable of doing anything other than commenting on its own impotence.
We are experiencing a deep crisis of confidence, of authority that poses a threat to democracy.
The observation should alert us: our country is trapped, even hostage, between violence and powerlessness."
LEADING 2027 FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MARINE LE PEN ON THIS WEEKEND'S EVENTS IN FRANCE
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN FRANCE FOLLOWING YESTERDAY'S PROTESTS WITH ISOLATED BUT DRAMATIC INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE AND LOOTING IN THE JANUARY 6TH VEIN.
THE CENTRIST GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON POINTING A FINGER AT LEFTISTS FOR THE VIOLENCE.
THE NUMBER OF THOSE ARRESTED REVISED ABOVE 2,000.
HIS CENTIST POLITICAL FACTION NOW IN THIRD PLACE FOR NEXT YEAR'S PRESIDENTIAL BEHIND MARINE LE PEN AND LEFTIST JEAN-LUC MELENCHON.
THE ONLY WAY FOR MACRON'S CENTRIST CANDIDATE LE HAVRE MAYOR EDOUARD PHILIPPE TO FACE MARINE LE PEN IN THE SECOND ROUND OF THE 2027 ELECTION IS TO DIMINISH SUPPORT FOR THE LEFT.
MR. PHILIPPE THIS AFTERNOON CALLED FOR A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE EVENTS OF OCTOBER 17TH.
PHILIPPE DECRYING 'THE DIVISION THAT IS HITTING THE COUNTRY'.
MEANWHILE THE PRESIDENT OF MARINE LE PEN'S POLITICAL PARTY THE NATIONAL RALLY (RN) JORDAN BARDELLA SAID:
"order no longer exists in France today"
MR. BARDELLA APPEARED BEFORE THE MEDIA OUTSIDE A POLICE STATION.
HE SPOKE OF THE NOTION OF PRESIDENT MACRON RESIGNING.
THIS AFTERNOON A PROTEST CALLED AT THE PLACE DE LA REPUBLIQUE IN PARIS A SCENE OF CONFRONTATION YESTERDAY.
POLICE DEPLOYED IN RESPONSE TO THE SUDDENLY ANNOUNCED DEMONSTRATION...
EARLIER DEVELOPMENTS LATER IN SUMMARY.
(UPDATED) IN THE UKRAINE WAR RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSES DOWNING 126 ATTACKING UKRAINIAN DRONES IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG.
AT LEAST ONE FATALITY NOW REPORTED IN THE ATTACK FIVE OTHERS WERE WOUNDED...(RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA)
THE UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK TARGETING AN OIL TERMINAL AND DATA CENTER.
A FIRE REPORTED AT THE ST. PETERSBURG OIL TERMINAL...TASS RUSSIA...
MORE UKRAINE WAR NEWS LATER IN THE SUMMARY.
A TUG STRUCK BY TWO PROJECTILES OFF THE EASTERN COAST OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES NEAR THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. NO INJURIES REPORTED...UKMTO 'X'
IN KOLKATA, INDIA 19 KILLED IN A STAMPEDE AT A FESTIVAL.
A MISLEADING ANNOUNCEMENT IS SAID TO HAVE LED TO THE STAMPEDE.
15 DEATHS REPORTED IN A TRUCK ACCIDENT IN MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA.
THE TRUCK RAN OVER DEVOTEES GATHERED NEAR A TEMPLE IN GWAILOR.
OTHERS INJURED IN THE ACCIDENT...NDTV INDIA
In the Yemen War an attack alert in the Saudi capital Riyadh Sunday morning.
Two Houthi missiles intercepted and destroyed by air defenses in southwestern Saudi Arabia...Dawn Pakistan Middle East War Blog...
More Yemen War news later in the summary.
(This Story Is Updated)
FOUR KILLED IN A FIERY DISASTER AT A CANADIAN MILITARY BASE IN ALBERTA.
PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY SAYS NEXT OF KIN HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED.
DOZENS OF OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
LAST NIGHT ALBERTA'S PREMIER DANIELLE SMITH SPOKE OF A 'SIGNIFICANT AND TRAGIC FIRE' AT CFB WAINWRIGHT.
HOSPITALS IN THE CITY OF EDMONTON WENT ON 'CODE ORANGE' TO ACCEPT MASS CASUALTIES.
A FIRE TRIGGERED BY THE DISASTER SPREAD BEYOND THE BOUDARIES OF THE MILITARY BASE BUT HAS BEEN CONTAINED.
A RESIDENT OF THE AREA SAID HE HEARD A BIG BANG, THEN LATER SAW SMOKE AND FIRE....
There is condemnation from Israeli officials following the attack on European diplomats and officials visiting the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh near Ramallah in the "West Bank".
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office expressed doubt about the authenticity of the attack.
Video of the attack has been posted online including French mayor Bernard Baudoux lying on the ground...Ynet News Israel (Translation Prompt) (Video Embed)...
Mayor Baudoux put on a French tricolor sash to identify himself as the attackers arrived but they beat him anyway...Associated Press-MSN USA...
French Foreign Minister Jean Noel Barrot demanding that Israel arrest those responsible for attacking the mayor and bring them to justice...AFP France-The Hindu India...
The group attacked included diplomats from European countries and representatives of the Roman Catholic Church.
Meanwhile six Palestinians injured in a nationalist settler attack on residents of the village of Ma'in south of Hebron.
There were other incidents including the wounding of two Palestinians by settler gunfire in a village west of Ramallah...Al Jazeera Qatar...
The tensions just days before Israelis vote on October 27th...
"I probably would have been dead"
Heidi Levine, a photojournalist for the "Washington Post", thanking Palestinians who intervened when she was attacked by Israeli nationalist settlers on Friday in the "West Bank".
Levine beaten for ten minutes by the settlers ending up with one finger almost severed.
She is being treated at a hospital in Israel saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's denial that she was attacked is 'such a lie and the biggest insult'...Times of Israel
A NATIONWIDE DAY OF PROTEST BRINGING MORE THAN HALF A MILLION PEOPLE ONTO THE STREETS OF FRANCE SATURDAY INCLUDING MORE THAN 100,000 IN PARIS.
THE STUDENT PROTEST MOVEMENT THAT SWEPT HIGH SCHOOLS AND SOME UNIVERSITIES MERGING WITH PROTESTERS OBJECTING TO THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.
LEFT-WING POLITICAL LEADERS IN FRANCE SUPPORTING THE PROTESTS WITH THE CENTRIST GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON AND PRIME MINISTER SEBASTIEN LECORNU DECRYING VIOLENT INCIDENTS ON THE FRINGES OF THE PROTEST.
THEY SUGGEST AN EXTREME THREAT TO THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
ON SATURDAY EVENING AN INCIDENT INVOLVING THE TORCHING OF THE TOWN HALL IN LIMOGES...
BESIDES THE DEMONSTRATIONS IN FRANCE, THERE WERE SIMILAR PROTESTS IN NEIGHBORING BELGIUM AS WELL AS ITALY AND PORTUGAL.
THEY ALL FOCUSED ON THE HIGH COST OF LIVING DRIVEN IN LARGE PART BY ENERGY PRICES DRIVEN UP BY THE UKRAINE, IRAN AND YEMEN WARS.
CLASHES WITH POLICE REPORTED AT THE DEMONSTRATIONS...AL JAZEERA QATAR...
Injuries reported as protesters took to the streets of Albania's capital city of Tirana for a fifth straight day.
Water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets used by police.
The demonstrators led by students demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama.
The Yemen War this weekend Saudi officials say four attacking Houthi drones were shot down over Saudi Arabia...(News Agencies)...
The Yemen government backed by the Saudis claiming more than 1,400 attacks on the Houthis.
Meanwhile Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaking of his country's willingness to defend Saudi Arabia if asked...News Agencies-Deutsche Welle Germany
IN THE UKRAINE WAR UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACKS ON MOSCOW FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY INCLUDING A 75-DRONE ATTACK SATURDAY MORNING.
THE ATTACKING DRONES DOWNED BY AIR DEFENSES.
EMERGENCY CREWS RESPONDED TO SITES WHERE DRONE DEBRIS FELL...TASS RUSSIA...
IN THE BLACK SEA NEAR UKRAINE ROMANIAN WARPLANES SHOT DOWN TWO DRONES.
THERE HAVE BEEN DRONE ATTACKS IN RECENT WEEKS ON MERCHANT SHIPPING OFF THE COASTS OF BULGARIA AND ROMANIA...NEWS AGENCIES-DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY...
MEANWHILE UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY WARNING THAT RUSSIA IS SEEKING TO TAKE DOWN HIS COUNTRY'S ENERGY GRID.
MR. ZELENSKY SAID THAT RUSSIA SEEKS TO KEEP RESIDENTS OF UKRAINE IN THE COLD THIS COMING WINTER.
REPORTS FROM UKRAINE OF INTENSIFIED RUSSIAN ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE...NEWS AGENCIES-DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY...
MEANWHILE THE 'FINANCIAL TIMES' IN THE UK SAYS THAT PRESIDENT ZELENSKY IS TELLING REPORTERS ON 'WHATS APP' THAT THE 'STARLINK' SATELLITE SYSTEMS ARE STILL OPERATING AT SLOW SPEED.
HE SPOKE OF A 'PLANNED OPERATION' TO KEEP STARLINK SLOWED DOWN IN UKRAINE.
THERE ARE MEDIA REPORTS THAT STARLINK OWNER ELON MUSK PROPOSED THE STARLINK SLOWDOWN TO US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP...OSINTdefender "X"
(Updated) Two killed, 11 injured when a black truck drove into a crowd in Wichita, Kansas.
It happened in a field at the Stryker Sports Complex during a soccer game.
The driver of the truck a 34-year-old woman taken into custody with two girls said to have been inside the truck.
The incident being called a 'tragedy'...
POPE LEO XIV DISCHARGED FROM THE GEMELLI HOSPITAL IN ROME SATURDAY FOLLOWING LUNG CANCER SURGERY.
HE SPOKE TO PEOPLE GATHERED OUTSIDE THE HOPSITAL AS HE LEFT.
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