News Summary-Intelligence Report Monday 5/20/2024*International Court Seeks Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu, Hamas Leaders*Assange Wins British Court Ruling*Iranian President, Foreign Minister Dead In Helicopter Crash
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Nextrush Free ^
| 5/20/2024 | Nextrush/Self
Explosions late tonight in the Ukrainian cities of... Two drones flying towards Israel from Iraq intercepted... The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Martin Gruenberg saying he will step down... Russia allowing export of gasoline for the next six weeks... Haiti's main international airport reopened today after being closed... The South
African Constitutional Court disqualifying former President Jacob Zuma... US politics a Harvard-Harris poll offering Donald Trump and Joe Biden as the only presidential choices... Mass protest outside Israel's parliament in Jerusalem... In the Netherlands medical businessman and former Labor Party politician Ronald Plasterk taking himself out of consideration......
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Brian Mulroney, one of Canada's most consequential prime ministers, is dead at 84
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CBC News ^
| February 29, 2024 | John Paul Tasker
Brian Mulroney — who, as Canada's 18th prime minister, steered the country through a tumultuous period in national and world affairs — has died. He
was 84. His daughter Caroline Mulroney shared the news Thursday afternoon on social media. "On behalf of my mother and our family, it is with great sadness we announce the passing of my father, The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Canada's 18th Prime Minister. He died peacefully, surrounded by family," she said on X, formerly Twitter.
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Israeli Prime Minister Announces In Berlin: Iran Nuclear Talks “Dead”
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Money Central ^
| 09/12/2022
A senior Israeli official representing Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Monday declared that Iran talks are “dead”.The official called on Europe and the US on Monday to begin talking about demands for a “longer, stronger” nuclear agreement with Iran, saying current talks aimed at reviving a 2015 pact were dead after Jerusalem
provided proof that Tehran had not been forthright during negotiations.Lapid and his top aides were in Berlin Monday, where the Israeli Prime Minister says he passed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz “sensitive and relevant intelligence information” on Iran’s nuclear program.The day prior, Germany, France, and the UK issued a...
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Military rescues Sri Lanka's Prime Minister in pre-dawn operation as violent clashes leave seven dead
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cnn ^
| May 10, 2022 | y Iqbal Athas, Hannah Ritchie and Rhea Mogul
Sri Lanka's outgoing Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was rescued in a pre-dawn military operation Tuesday, hours after his resignation, as violent clashes between pro and anti-government protesters left several dead and 217 injured. The
military were called to the Prime Minister's 'Temple Trees' compound after protesters tried to breach his private residence twice overnight, a senior security source told CNN. The attackers managed to "enter the outer perimeter" of the residence where they hurled petrol bombs, but their attempts to enter the building were thwarted when the military fired tear gas, according to the source. One police officer involved in...
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Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says
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Reuters ^
| March 25, 2022 | Paresh Dave
Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says By Paresh Dave March 25, 2022 12:32 AM GMT+9 Last Updated 10 hours ago OAKLAND, Calif., March 23 (Reuters) - Ukraine is using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and to trace their families
to inform them of their deaths, Ukraine's vice prime minister told Reuters. Reuters exclusively reported that Ukraine's Ministry of Defense this month began using technology from Clearview AI, a New York-based facial recognition provider that finds images on the web that match faces from uploaded photos. It was...
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Germans will be 'vaccinated, cured or dead' in a few months, health minister warns as country mulls compulsory jabs and Austria wakes up to life in lockdown amid Europe's Covid crisis
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Daily Mail ^
| 22 November 2021 | RACHAEL BUNYAN FOR MAILONLINE
..The dire warning comes as Germany is racing to contain a record rise in coronavirus infections, with the country reporting 49,206 cases on Sunday - the highest number of new coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic. ...In
Germany, the fourth wave is overwhelming hospitals, with health chiefs warning that the situation is 'extremely critical' in intensive care units across the country. ... Anger is mounting across Europe over the anti-Covid measures, which has seen thousands of people demonstrate in Austria, Switzerland, Croatia, Italy, Northern Ireland, Austria and North Macedonia on Saturday, ... The frustration is extending to as...
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'Dead woman walking': UK Prime Minister Theresa May clings to power
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edition.cnn.com ^
| June 11, 2017 | Hilary Clarke and Angela Dewan
UK Prime Minister Theresa May was clinging to power by her fingernails on Sunday after losing her parliamentary majority in last Thursday's election, as an agreement with the minority Democratic Unionist Party that would keep the Conservatives in power was still not finalized. May's
co-chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, handed in their resignations on Saturday following the disastrous election, called by May to strengthen her position ahead of talks to leave the European Union, but which in the end left her weakened.
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Somalia’s youngest cabinet minister has been shot dead [Islamophobia in Africa!]
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Quartz ^
| 5/4/17 | Abdi Latif Dahir
Somalia’s government is investigating the killing of Abass Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji, a rising young politician in the country, who was shot dead in an apparent accident by the bodyguards of another government official on Wednesday night.... .... the security team of the country’s auditor general, Nur Farah, opened fire on the car
he was travelling in. Farah has said that his guards thought the vehicle was transporting a suicide bomber. At 31 years old, Siraji, the minister of public works and reconstruction, was Somalia’s youngest member of cabinet.
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Hungarian Prime Minister declares 'deadly' Hillary Clinton's election defeat 'great news'
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Daily Mail (UK) ^
| 9 November 2016 | JAY AKBAR
The Hungarian Prime Minister has congratulated Donald Trump on his victory over 'deadly' Hillary Clinton. 'What a great news. Democracy
is still alive,' Viktor Orban wrote on his Facebook page following Donald Trump's unprecedented election victory. Orban, the first European leader to favour one candidate over the other, has said Trump's foreign policies were 'vital' for his nation and branded Clinton's plans 'deadly'.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Declares 'Deadly' Hillary Clinton's Election Defeat 'Great News'
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The Daily Mail (UK) ^
| 11/9/16 | Jay Akbar
* Prime Minister Viktor Orban congratulated Donald Trump on his victory*'What a great news. Democracy
is still alive,' he wrote on Facebook page * Orban was the first European leader to favour one candidate over the other*In July, he claimed Trump's foreign policies were 'vital' to his nation's plansThe Hungarian Prime Minister has congratulated Donald Trump on his victory over 'deadly' Hillary Clinton. 'What a great news. Democracy is still alive,' Viktor Orban wrote on his Facebook page following Donald Trump's unprecedented election victory. Orban, the first European leader to favour one candidate over the other, has said Trump's foreign...
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First female external affairs minister, Flora MacDonald, dead at age 89
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National Post ^
| July 26, 2015
OTTAWA — Flora MacDonald, who served as a senior cabinet member in two Conservative federal governments and made a run for the party’s leadership in 1976, has died. She
was 89. MacDonald’s long-time executive assistant Margit Herrman says MacDonald died in Ottawa this morning — the cause of death was not immediately available. MacDonald was the first woman to hold the foreign affairs portfolio in Joe Clark’s government from 1979 to 1980. She was heading the department during the Iranian hostage crisis when Canadian diplomats gave shelter to six Americans who escaped capture when their embassy was overrun.
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Nuke talks to miss target; Iran foreign minister heads home (June 30 deadline missed)
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AP ^
| Jun. 28, 2015 9:07 AM EDT | MATTHEW LEE and GEORGE JAHN
VIENNA (AP) — A senior U.S. official acknowledged Sunday that Iran nuclear talks will go past their June 30 target date, as Iran's foreign minister prepared to head home Sunday for consultations before returning to push for a breakthrough. Iranian
media said Mohammed Javad Zarif's trip was planned in advance. Still, the fact that he was leaving the talks so close to the Tuesday deadline reflected his need to get instructions on how to proceed on issues where the sides remain apart — among them how much access Tehran should give to U.N. experts monitoring his country's compliance to any...
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Pakistan minister: 84 dead in Taliban attack
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AP via Yahoo News ^
| December 16, 2014 | Riaz Khan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A top Pakistani official says that 84 students have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Pervez Khattak, the chief minister of the province where the attack is underway, says that roughly the same number of students have been
wounded. According to Khattak, the 84 killed in the Tuesday attack were all "children" but hospital officials earlier said at least one of the fatalities was a teacher and one security official were also among the dead. Khattak says the fighting is still unfolding at the school.
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Israel to Ease Gun Laws in Wake of Deadly Attack, Says Security Minister
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Wall Street Journal ^
| 18 Nov 2014 | Jacob Gershman
srael is temporarily easing its guns laws in the wake of one of the worst Palestinian attacks in the city in years, according to media reports. “In
the coming hours, I will ease restrictions on carrying weapons,” Israel’s public security minister, Yitzhak Aharonovich, said Tuesday in remarks broadcast on public radio, the AFP reported.
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