>https://twitter.com/ToscaAusten/status/1439598614771236864
That's hot.
>death of Michel Trudeau, on Friday the 13th, in November 1998
Nicknamed Miche by Fidel Castro (of all people) during a visit with his grandparents to Cuba in 1976, Michel Trudeau was born only four months before on October 2, 1975, in Ottawa, Ontario. Upon retiring from politics, Michel's father Pierre moved the family to Montreal, Quebec, where the 9-year-old Michel would spend the rest of his childhood.
>Nicknamed Miche by Fidel Castro (of all people)
>make it up out of thin air to get the story they want
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-fakhrizadeh-assassination-israel.html
Iranian nuclear scientist slain with Israeli remote-control gun
Iran's top nuclear scientist was assassinated by Israel's national intelligence agency using a high-tech remote-controlled machine gun, according to a report published Saturday in The New York Times.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was shot on Nov. 27, 2020, while driving his Nissan Teana between a vacation home on the Caspian Sea and a country house and the town of Absard, where he planned to spend the weekend with his wife, according to the report.
Iranian agents working for Israel had parked a blue Nissan Zamyad pickup truck on the side of the road with a 7.62-mm sniper machine gun hidden among decoy construction materials.
An assassin with the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, fired the gun at Fakhrizadeh. The assassin was more than 1,000 miles away using an advanced robot to operate the weapon that was smuggled into the country in small pieces.
However, explosives planted on the gun and robot left them intact, allowing Iranians to piece together what happened.
Israel has long been concerned about Iran developing nuclear weapons. Iran's leaders blamed Israel for the assassination saying it was carried out using high-tech means.
"Unfortunately, the operation was very complicated and was done using electronic equipment and no [perpetrators] were at the scene," Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said at a burial ceremony for Fakhrizdeh.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2021/09/19/Biden-Macron-discuss-Australia-submarine-deal-coming-days/8181632063641/
Biden, Macron to discuss Australia submarine deal in coming days
U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron will speak about the United States' recent nuclear submarine deal with Australia in the coming days, a French government spokesman said Sunday.
Spokesman Gabriel Attal said that Biden had requested the phone call as Macron seeks "clarification" about the trilateral partnership between the United States, Australia and Britain which saw France lose a multibillion-dollar contract to provide submarine technology to Australia.
"What's at stake in this crisis is the strategy (in the Pacific), which is more important than the commercial considerations," Attal said. "This is what we'll be discussing."
The United States, Australia and Britain announced Wednesday the formation of a trilateral security partnership known as AUKUS, stating its first major initiative will be to deliver a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the submarines, which won't feature nuclear weapons, will be built in Adelaide, Australia, "in close cooperation with the United Kingdom and the United States"
France responded on Friday by recalling its ambassador to the United States Philippe Etienne and Australian Ambassador Jean-Pierre Thébault.
While announcing the removal of the ambassadors, Jean-Yves Le Drian, France's minister for Europe and foreign affairs, described the cancellation of the deal as "unacceptable behavior between allies and partners" as France accused of Australia of failing to provide adequate warning.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2021/09/18/algeria-Algeria-President-Abdelaziz-Bouteflika/6811631972757/
Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika dies at 84