Bringing everything and news around the world down to you....

Trump’s tariffs on China are doing the exact opposite of what they’re supposed to By gowidenews October 12, 2018 Report reaching us says, Donald Trump’s tariffs on China are going great, the US president assured the world yesterday. “Their economy has gone down very substantially,” Trump said on Fox & Friends. The numbers tell a different story. In September, Americans bought $34 billion more worth of Chinese goods than they sold in return, according to data from China’s customs agency published this morning. That’s the biggest monthly trade surplus the Middle Kingdom has ever run with the US. “Ummm…record trade SURPLUSES for China weren’t supposed to be the outcome of the US-China trade war,” says Trivium, a Beijing-based research firm, “but so far the Trump administration’s policies are leading to a strong dollar and surging Chinese exports.” Indeed, the country’s exports to the US were up 14% from September 2017, while its purchases of American goods fell by 2%, compared to...

Palestinian Woman Stoned to Death by Israeli Settlers   By gowidenews October 13, 2018 2:41 AM Report reaching us says that, A group of Israeli paramilitary settlers attacked a Palestinian couple south of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, on Friday, killing the woman and severely injuring her husband. Aisha Mohammed Talal al-Rabi, 47, was riding in a car with her husband near the Za’tara roadblock,  south of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, when a group of Israeli settlers came onto the road and began throwing rocks at their car. The slain woman was from Bidya town, northwest of Salfit. The Israeli colonial settlers threw a number of large rocks, breaking the windshield of the car. They then continued to throw rocks, according to local sources, hitting the couple multiple times in the head and upper body. Aisha died of blunt force trauma to the head, caused by a rock that was thrown at her head by the settlers. Armed Israeli paramilitary s...

Presidential panel recovers over N4bn, $7m By gowidenews October 13, 2018 Report reaching us says that, The Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) has  recovered over N4 billion and $7 million cash as well as physical assets believed to have been illegally acquired,its chairman, Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, announced yesterday. Obono-Obla said in a statement in Abuja that the $7 million was recovered from the previous management of the Nigeria Export and Import (NEXIM) Bank which had “illegally placed” it in Heritage Bank. The naira component of the recoveries, according to him, includes N533 million and land valued at N1.5 billion also from the former NEXIM management. The assets, according to him, have since been returned to the bank. Obono-Obla said SPIP also recovered N24 million misappropriated by some directors of the National Theatre, and two hectares of land worth N2 billion, belonging to the National Council for Acts and Culture. Also re...

Nigeria  seeks IMF’s support on tax collection By gowidenews : October 13, 2018 Report reaching us says that The Federal Government of Nigeria is seeking assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)  on modalities  for improving  tax collection, especially  from the International Oil Companies (IOCs), Finance Minister  Zainab Ahmed, has said. She told reporters  on the sidelines of the ongoing 2018 International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank Group Meetings, in Bali, Indonesia, that government has to be in a position to develop tools  that could help pursue taxes, especially  ”from very large corporates, like international oil companies (IOCs).” The IOCs,according to her, has the    greatest tax potential in Nigeria. ”This is the industry that, from the Thabo Mbeki Report, shows that about 70 per cent of the illicit financial flows that go out of Africa, Nigeria included, are related to the extractive industry,” s...

Over 800 children stop working for anti-Boko Haram militia  By gowidenews 20:30 12/10/2018 Report reaching us says that, A ceremony was held in northeast Nigeria on Friday to mark the formal separation of more than 800 children from a civilian militia helping Nigeria's military against Boko Haram Islamists. A total of 833 youngsters were handed over in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, after being identified as having worked in the ranks of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF). The CJTF, which has been on the frontline of the jihadist violence, last year promised to stop using minors as part of its security operations. The UN said in its annual report on children and armed conflict that youngsters were helping with intelligence searches, night patrols, crowd control and at checkpoints. The deputy representative of Unicef Nigeria, Pernille Ironside, said by agreeing to no longer use under-18s, the CJTF had shown a "commitment to... uphold international humanitar...

Roelof ‘Pik’ Botha, South African foreign minister during apartheid, dies at 86 Roelof "Pik" Botha, right, greeting Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1997. By gowidenews October 12 at 7:45 PM Report reaching us says that, Roelof “Pik” Botha, who spent decades at the center of South Africa’s political and diplomatic life as the last foreign minister under apartheid rule and who later served in the cabinet of the country’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, died Oct. 12 at a hospital in Pretoria. He was 86. The cause was heart disease, his family announced. Mr. Botha joined South Africa’s foreign service at 21 and held prestigious diplomatic assignments, including simultaneous appointments in the 1970s as ambassador to the United Nations and to the United States. He occupied an ambivalent place in South African public life, seen by some as a moderate voice in a brutal government and by others as a wily political survivor who was the public face and voice of a racist system cli...

Russia has information on upcoming chemical weapons provocations in Idlib   By gowidenews on Saturday  13, oct.   01:17 Report reaching us says that the OPCW's attributive mechanism directed against Russia — diplomat THE HAGUE, October 12. /TASS/. Russia has obtained intelligence that militants are plotting provocations with the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian province of Idlib, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the OPCW, Ambassador to the Netherlands Alexander Shulgin told TASS on Friday. "Yes, of course. [Russia has information]. The information comes constantly," he said. "We have held several meetings at the OPCW [the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons]. I applied to the Tethechnical Secretariat and handed them detailed information about a provocation in the Idlib province. We know surnames of the armed opposition leaders and the number of barrels with chlorine," Shulgin said. "We were hoping that the Secretariat would ra...

Hurricane death toll rises to 17 as search goes on in Florida  By gowidenews 13 Oct, 2018 In our report today which says that The death toll from Hurricane Michael rose to 17 across four states on Friday, law enforcement officials said, as rescue crews hampered by communications failures searched the hardest-hit communities in the Florida Panhandle. Searchers found one person dead in the rubble of Mexico Beach, said Joseph Zahralban, Miami’s fire chief and the task force leader of a search and rescue unit. Three additional deaths were reported in Marianna, in Jackson County, Florida, Sheriff Lou Roberts told a news conference on Friday afternoon. The number of fatalities was expected to rise further as rescuers go door to door and comb through the rubble in oceanfront communities such as Mexico Beach, Port St. Joe and Panama City that bore the brunt of the storm’s wrath. “I think you’re going to see it climb,” Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agen...

  Trump vows to uncover truth around missing journalist as report emerges Turkish government has proof of murder  By gowidenews 01:01 13 Oct, 2018 Report reaching us says that the U.States of America President Donald Trump declared this morning the US will uncover the truth about what happened to journalist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi, whose possible murder at Saudi hands after disappearing in Istanbul has captured worldwide attention. Trump promised to personally call Saudi Arabia's King Salman soon about "the terrible situation in Turkey." "We're going to find out what happened," Trump pledged when questioned by reporters in Cincinnati where he was headlining a political rally. Khashoggi, a forceful critic of the Saudi government, went missing more than a week ago after entering a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and Turkish officials have said they believe he was murdered there. It comes as Turkey's government has told US officials it has audio a...

Seven Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli forces in Gaza during violent weekly protests By gowidenews October 12, 2018 Report reaching us says that the, Palestinian demonstrators burn tires Friday in a protest on the Gaza-Israel border. Seven Palestinians died Friday after being shot by Israeli soldiers along the security fence between Gaza and Israel during violent weekly protests, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. A total of 252 people were injured -- 154 of them by live fire, the ministry said. The deaths occurred during Friday protests, which often turn violent, along the fence separating Israel and the Gaza Strip. The ministry identified the victims as Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Taweel,27; Mohamed Abdelhafez Ismail, 29; Tamer Riad Armaneh, 27; Afifi Mahmoud Afifi, 32; Ahmed Abdullah Abu Naim, 17; Abdullah Suleiman Al-Daghma, 25; and Mohamed Esam Abas, 21. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said about 15,000 Palestinians gathered along fence. "The rioters are bur...

U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson released from house arrest in Turkey  By gowidenews Oct 12, 2018 5:57 PM Report reaching us says that, A Turkish court on Friday convicted an American pastor of terror links but released him from house arrest and allowed him to leave the country, removing a major irritant in fraught ties between two NATO allies that still disagree on a host of other issues. The court near the western city of Izmir sentenced North Carolina native Andrew Brunson to just over three years in prison for allegedly helping terror groups, but let him go because the 50-year-old evangelical pastor had already spent nearly two years in detention. An earlier charge of espionage was dropped. Hours later, Brunson was transported to Izmir’s airport and was flown out of Turkey, where he had lived for two decades. He was expected to be flown to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. “I love Jesus. I love Turkey,” an emotional Brunson, who had maintained he was innocent of ...

As I see it: As Haley’s comet passes, UN itself must now be a fallen star  By gowidenews 03:53  12/10/2018 The overtly anti-American and anti-Israel UN provides a rhetorical shield and effective justification and incitement for terrorism, tyranny and oppression. The sudden announcement of Nikki Haley’s resignation from her post as America’s ambassador to the UN at the end of the year has dismayed Israel’s supporters, and with good reason. Her willingness to call out the despots and tyrants who have turned the UN into a theater of bigotry, injustice and hypocrisy against Israel has been an object lesson in principled and muscular diplomacy which displayed both high skill and charm. In a universe of western appeasers, she displayed something which that world has all but lost: the moral courage to grasp that evil cannot be accommodated, but has to be confronted and defeated. Read more related articles Now, though, the US needs to take its strategy of holding the UN t...