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Trump mocks Al Franken for resigning quickly amid sexual harassment allegations   President Trump makes his way to the stage for a rally at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester By gowidenews Report reaching us on October 4 at 10:17 PM says ROCHESTER, Minn. — President Trump mocked former senator Al Franken Thursday night for resigning from Congress so quickly after he was accused of sexual harassment and groping women, marking the president’s most recent contentious comments about the #MeToo movement. “Boy, did he fold up like a wet rag, huh? Man. Man. He was gone so fast. I don’t want to mention Al Franken’s name, okay? So I won’t mention it. He was gone so fast. It was like, oh, he did something. ‘Oh, oh, oh, I resign. I quit, I quit.’ Wow. He was gone and he was replaced by somebody that nobody ever heard of. Her name is Tina Smith,” Trump told the Minnesota crowd to cheers. Franken resigned in January amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. A photo that emerged last No...

Trump says Democrats treatment of Kavanaugh will backfire in Novembe r  By gowidenews Oct 4, 2018, 10:14 PM  President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at the Mayo Civic Center, Oct. 4, 2018, in Rochester, Minn. Evan Vucci/AP President Trump rallied Republican voters in Rochester, Minnesota, on Thursday night and predicted that Democratic treatment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh would backfire in the November elections. "Democrats have been trying to destroy Judge Brett Kavanaugh the very first second he was announced," Trump said. "Because they know that Judge Kavanaugh will protect, uphold and defend the constitution." "All you have to do is look at the polls over the last three or four days, and it shows that their rage-fueled resistance is starting to backfire at a level that nobody has ever seen before before," he added. The #MeToo movement loomed over the rally in Minnesota as Capitol Hill is on the verge of deciding the fate of Judge Brett Kav...

GOP Sen Going to Daughter's Wedding, Kavanaugh Vote or Not Montana GOP Sen. Steve Daines speaks into a mic before a Senate hearingSen. Steve Daines, R-Mont. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) By gowidenews Thursday, 04 Oct 2018 9:48 PM Report reaching us says Montana's Republican Sen. Steve Daines could miss a Senate confirmation vote this weekend for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — his daughter is getting married Saturday. And, according to Fox News, Daines will walk his daughter down the aisle no matter what. Though Daines is expected to support Kavanaugh's confirmation, his absence could gum up the works for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as he aims to push through nomination to the high court, Fox News reported. Republicans currently hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate and can only afford one defection if Democrats unanimously vote against Kavanaugh. Three GOP Republicans — Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-M...

Israel in fresh ATTACK on 'Iranian BEAST'  As they demand more countries quit nuclear deal ISRAEL launched a fresh verbal attack on Iran yesterday when its President called on Germany to join the US in starving “the Iranian beast” and added that it “is the only way to guarantee stability in the world”. By gowidenews 01:26, Fri, Oct 5, 2018 Report reaching us says... Iran: USA 'must stop bullying' says President Rouhani During German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Israel, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin received her in the disputed city of Jerusalem in the hopes of discussing Iran. Mr Rivlin hoped to convince the Chancellor to end German business with Iran and to stop circumventing economic restrictions put in place by US President Donald Trump. While Israel and the US have accused Iran of attempting to destabilise the Middle East by supporting hostile movements, developing ballistic weapons and secretly pursuing nuclear weapons, Germany has been one of the pa...

    Ban Likud’s Tel Aviv Campaign By gowidenews  On oct 4, 2018 04:19 The hatred and incitement emanating from the ruling party has not passed over the municipal elections. Signs were put up in Tel Aviv streets this week advertising the Likud’s municipal roster, headed by Arnon Giladi. An “us or them” message comes through all the campaign slogans, extending to social media as well. “The Hebrew city or the PLO city”; “the Hebrew city or the infiltrators’ city”; “Zionist education or Breaking the Silence in the schools.” Back in 2013, the Giladi-led Likud roster’s campaign slogan calling for “silencing the muezzin in Jaffa” was banned. The chairman of the Central Elections Committee, former Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran, said at the time that its message “will almost certainly lead to severe disturbance of the peace and hurt the feelings of the Arab-Muslim population in Israel.” But past experience did not deter Likud and Giladi from revisiting the same tactics....

Report: Qatar to purchase fuel for Gaza power plant Under UN-brokered arrangement, Qatar will finance the purchase of fuel for Gaza’s power plant. By gowidenews 05/10/18 04:02 Gaza City power plant Gaza City power plantAbed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90 Qatar will finance the purchase of fuel for Gaza’s power plant, bringing an expected relief in the electricity shortage in Gaza, Haaretz reported on Thursday. The arrangement, which is supposed to go into effect in the coming days, will allow a significant increase in the supply of power to Gaza residents, according to the report. Israel hopes that this development, which should provide an immediate improvement to residents’ daily lives, will reduce the risk of a military confrontation with Hamas. Gaza now receives around four hours of electricity a day. The Qatari aid, estimated to be tens of millions of dollars, aims to raise the average to eight hours a day. According to Haaretz, talks on this issue have been taking place over the past few m...

NASA to participate in first Israeli moon mission  By gowidenews 2018-10-03 23:53:53|  Report reaching us says, JERUSALEM, Israeli Space Agency (ISA) announced Wednesday that it had signed an agreement with NASA to engage the American space agency in the first Israeli moon mission. SpaceIL is an Israeli nonprofit organization, established in 2011, aiming to land a spacecraft on the moon by 2019. As part of the agreement, the unmanned spacecraft will be fitted with a NASA laser reflector designed to help locate the exact position of the spaceship after landing. NASA will enable SpaceIL to receive communications services with the spacecraft and conduct deep space exploration through NASA's huge antenna network, which will help communicate with earth. It was also agreed that NASA would have access to the data generated by the magnetometer device installed on the spacecraft. The device, developed in cooperation with the Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, will conduct meas...

US preparing Israel for war  The colossal military aid package ‘reflects the enduring and unshakable commitment of the President, this Administration, and the American people to Israel's security’ Report reaching us on 04 OCTOBER 2018, 11:58 By gowidenews      A 2016 military aid package agreed upon between the U.S. and Israel went into force on Tuesday. The deal, signed under the Obama administration, will provide Israel with $38 billion in U.S. military financing from 2019 to 2028. It is the largest such aid package in U.S. history. The move also expands a stockpile of U.S. weapons kept in Israel. “The United States will set funding for Israel at levels of $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing and $500 million for cooperative programs for missile defense over each of the next 10 years,” State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a written statement. “Israel is a valuable and capable ally to the United States that today faces dangerously escalat...

Ohanaeze youths threaten to ‘sink’ PDP over Igbo VP  Report reaching us on OCTOBER 5, 20181:26 AM By gowidenews Says the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, yesterday alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has perfected plans to deny South-East the vice presidential slot in its convention scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt tomorrow. ohanaeze The group called on the national executive of the party, the South East governors and other key stakeholders within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to ensure that the vice presidential slot is zoned to the South-East or the youths of the region would vote for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2019 presidential election. In a statement issued in Abakaliki  after the group’s emergency meeting, the youths described the plot geared towards sidelining the South-East as wickedness and political treachery against Ndigbo who had suffered lots of marginalisation in the country. The statement read in part: “We ...

I’m committed to fight corruption frontally — Buhari   Report reaching us ON OCTOBER 5, 201812:42 AM  By gowidenews Says, Africa loses $80bn to illicit financial flows annually —Mbeki 40% from Nigeria —Fowler ABUJA—PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, told former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, that his administration was committed to fight corruption frontally since it was one of the cardinal points that made people to vote for him. President Buhari, who stated this when he received Mbeki, chairman of  African Union High Level Panel on Illicit Flows from Africa, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said the fight against corruption was not negotiable. Mbeki was at the State House to brief President Buhari on critical updates on illicit flows on the continent. In a statement by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, Buhari, who is the current Champion of African Union, AU, Anti-Corruption Campaign, said: “For this administ...

I paid $1m ransom to Evans, witness tells court. Report reaching us on OCTOBER 5, 201812:11  By gowidenews Says, A prosecution witness, Izuchukwu Ezeuko, in the ongoing trial of suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, yesterday narrated how he travelled to the eastern part of the country to pay a one million dollars ransom to the alleged kidnappers of his employer. Ezeuko, a manager in the victim, Mr. James Uduji’s firm, made the revelation while giving evidence before an Igbosere High Court in Lagos. Evans Ezeuko, who is the fifth witness in the trial, said he agreed to travel from Lagos to the east to drop the ransom to save his boss’ life. Evans is currently facing two separate charges of conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping and attempted murder, before Justice Adedayo Akintoye. In the first charge, Evans is standing trial alongside Joseph Emeka, Ugochukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba. In the second, he is standing trial alongside Joseph Em...

Ethnic clashes leave another 13 dead in central Nigeria By gowidenews Report reaching us today being Oct 4, 2018 17 MINUTES AGO  Says....,        The violence earlier this week between the Berom, indigenous farmers, and the Fulani, nomadic cattle herders, took place in Jol, a community part of the Riyom local government area of Plateau state, said military spokesman Major Adam Umar. A member of security forces stands guard outside a court in the northern city of Kaduna, Nigeria October 4, 2018. A member of security forces stands guard outside a court in the northern city of Kaduna, Nigeria October 4, 2018. (Reuters) At least 13 people have been killed in Nigeria's restive central region in an escalating ethnic battle between farmers and herders, an army spokesman told AFP on Thursday. The violence earlier this week between the Berom, indigenous farmers, and the Fulani, nomadic cattle herders, took place in Jol, a community part of the Riyom local g...

Petroleum Ministry, NNPC, others see need for digitalisation of operations Report reaching us today being Oct 4, 20180   By gowidenews. The Key agencies of government under the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources have pledged to improve the digitalisation of their systems in order to boost the country’s oil and gas sector. According to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the Petroleum Equalisation Fund and other agencies under the ministry, the adequate digitalisation of the oil and gas sector will lead to significant improvement in monitoring, predictive maintenance and operation optimisation. Speaking at the Huawei Nigeria Digital Oil and Gas Industry Summit in Abuja, the Group Executive Director, Downstream, NNPC, Ikem Obih, noted that the oil and gas sector had faced tough challenges since 2015 and called for its urgent technological transformation. The summit, which was organised by Huawei Nigeria Enterprise, had its theme as: ‘Leading new Information and Communi...