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Russia vows to continue oil trade with Iran despite US sanctions By gowidenews Fri Nov 2, 2018 Report reaching us says that the Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak says his country will help Iran counter fresh US sanctions due to come into effect late this week, saying Moscow will continue trading Tehran’s crude in defiance of Washington. "We believe we should look for mechanisms that would allow us to continue developing cooperation with our partners, with Iran," Novak told the Financial Times. The US plans to impose a second round of sanctions against Iran on Sunday, months after Washington scrapped the 2015 multilateral deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries. The first round of the bans – which had been lifted under the nuclear deal -- was re-imposed in August. The administration of US President Donald Trump has warned Russia against any move that could help Iran evad...

Erdogan: Saudi King Didn't Order Khashoggi Hit, but 'Highest Levels' of Govt Did  By gowidenews 22:04 02.11.2018 (updated 22:30 02.11.2018) Report reaching us says that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday in a Washington Post op-ed that "we know that the order to kill [Jamal] Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government." "I do not believe for a second that King Salman, the custodian of the holy mosques, ordered the hit on Khashoggi," the Turkish president wrote Friday in the Post, a publication to which Saudi journalist Khashoggi contributed before he was killed in early October in Istanbul. Pictures of Saudi Journalist Khashoggi © REUTERS / Murad Sezer Khashoggi Fiancé Seeks Trump Help Recovering Body For Proper Islamic Burial Erdogan stressed that in light of this, there was "no reason to believe that his murder reflected Saudi Arabia's official policy," so "it would be wrong t...

Russia: Terrorists to stage chemical provocation in Hama  By gowidenews, Nov 3, 2018 Report reaching says that the  Russian Defense Ministry revealed information confirming that terrorist organizations have transported two containers of chlorine substance to a granary , west of Hama province to stage a new chemical attack and accuse the Syrian Arab Army of launching it. Sputnik quoted the head of Russian Reconciliation Center based in Hmeimim, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Savchenko as saying on Thursday that the terrorists delivered two containers with chlorine to a granary in the northern part of al-Madeeq castle. They are planning to use the chlorine substance to stage a chemical attack and accuse the Syrian Army of committing it.

UN condemns Boko Haram IDP attack  By gowidenews 02 November 2018   |   11:15 am Report reaching us says that, After the attack on an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Maiduguri, Borno State by terrorist group Boko Haram on Wednesday, the United Nations have condemned the attacks by the group and urged the Nigerian government improve in its duty of securing lives of its people. The attack by Boko Haram on an IDP camp that accommodates 12,600 civilians led to the death of at least eight persons and the abduction of several women. The insurgents also carried out attacks on four other communities in the state, namely Kofa, Mallumti, Ngomari and Gozari on Wednesday. In a statement issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, decried the attack while sympathising with the victims of the attack. “Attacks on camps for internally displaced peopl...

Jamal Khashoggi’s Body Dissolved After Dismemberment, Turkish Official Says “The reason they dismembered his body is to dissolve it easier,” an adviser to Turkey’s president said.  By gowidenews 11/02/2018 Report reaching us says that The body of journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been dissolved in acid after he was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, an adviser to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told a Turkish newspaper this week. The adviser, Yasin Aktay, said that’s why the body of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and U.S. resident, was cut into pieces. Khashoggi disappeared shortly after entering the consulate Oct. 2 to obtain documents for his planned marriage, with Saudi officials giving shifting explanations for his death. “According to the latest information we have, the reason they dismembered his body is to dissolve it easier,” Aktay said in a statement to the Hurriyet Daily News, Reuters and the BBC reported Friday. The statement bolsters a r...

Pakistani cleric known as 'father of the Taliban' killed in knife attack. By gowidenews 2 Nov, 2018 Report reaching us says that Pakistani cleric, Samiul Haq attends a briefing in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Feb. 3, 2014. Pakistani police said on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, that Haq, who was known as "father of the Taliban," was killed in a knife attack in his bedroom at home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. ISLAMABAD — Pakistani police and the family of prominent cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, who also was known as the "father of the Taliban," say he has been killed in a knife attack at his home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. Haq's son, Hamidul Haq, says his father was killed Friday. Yousaf Shah, Haq's spokesman, said the attacker's identity and their motive were not immediately known. Haq was the head of his faction of the Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam party. The religious scholar was the founder of the famous Haqqania seminary, where dozens of...

U.S. Allows Eight 'Jurisdictions' To Keep Buying Iran Oil For Now By gowidenews 2 November, 2018 Report reaching us says that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives a press conference at the US Department of State in Washington, October 23, 2018 The United States said on Friday it will temporarily allow eight jurisdictions to keep importing Iranian oil when U.S. sanctions come back into force on Monday, sparing them for now from the threat of U.S. economic penalties. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who announced the decision in a conference call, did not name the jurisdictions, but said the European Union as a whole, which has 28 members, would not receive one. Turkey's Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said his country had been told it would get a waiver. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also said Washington had made clear to the Brussels-based SWIFT financial messaging service that it was expected to disconnect all Iranian financial institutions th...

U.S. Allows Eight 'Jurisdictions' To Keep Buying Iran Oil For Now By gowidenews 2 November, 2018 Report reaching us says that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives a press conference at the US Department of State in Washington, October 23, 2018 The United States said on Friday it will temporarily allow eight jurisdictions to keep importing Iranian oil when U.S. sanctions come back into force on Monday, sparing them for now from the threat of U.S. economic penalties. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who announced the decision in a conference call, did not name the jurisdictions, but said the European Union as a whole, which has 28 members, would not receive one. Turkey's Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said his country had been told it would get a waiver. Still on the report which says that the U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also said Washington had made clear to the Brussels-based SWIFT financial messaging service that it was expected to disconne...

Israel's Netanyahu welcomes Brazil Jerusalem embassy vow By gowidenews     38 minutes ago Report reaching us says that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed a decision by Brazil's president-elect to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Mr Netanyahu praised it as "historic, [and] correct". Palestinians called the move "provocative and illegal". Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right politician, expressed strong support for Israel during his election campaign. Jerusalem's status is one of the most contentious issues between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel considers the whole of Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians seek East Jerusalem as the capital of a hoped-for Palestinian state. "I congratulate my friend Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro for his intention to move the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem, a historic, correct and exciting step!" Mr Netanyahu said in a statement. But Palestinian official Han...

Gunmen open fire on bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt Open in fullscreen.  By gowidenews Date of publication: 2 November, 2018 Report reaching us says that Several people have been reported dead and wounded after gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Christian pilgrims travelling to a remote desert monastery. At least seven Coptic Christians were killed, and dozens more injured on Friday when gunmen opened fire on their bus in central Egypt. The bus was heading towards the Saint Samuel Coptic Christian monastery near Minya, a city about 270 kilometres south of the capital, Cairo. The archbishop of Minya told Reuters news agency that at least seven people were killed and 14 wounded in the attack. Church spokesperson Bouls Halim told The Associated Press news agency the death toll was likely to rise. Copts, a Christian minority, make up 10 percent of Egypt's 96 million people. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but Coptic Christia...

'Imagine what would happen if Saudi Arabia was destabilized' Netanyahu said to urge Washington to stick by Saudi crown prince Amid Khashoggi murder fallout, Israeli and Egyptian leaders reportedly call on Trump administration not to let incident undermine strategic relations with Riyadh By gowidenews Nov 1, 2018 10:34 pm US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make their way to the Oval Office for a meeting at the White House on March 5, 2018. According to the report which says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called senior American officials recently to urge that Washington not abandon its support for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman amid growing criticism over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, according to multiple reports. A Thursday report in The Washington Post said Netanyahu told Trump administration officials that bin Salman was a key strategic partner and a linchpin of the alliance against Irani...

Israel’s Netanyahu warns Europe of possible attacks by Iran Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. (Oded Balilty, Pool/Associated Press) By gowidenews November 1 at 4:43 PM Report reaching us says that  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling Iran the “most potent force of militant Islam” and is warning Europe of possible Iranian attacks on its soil. Speaking to reporters Thursday after talks with his Bulgarian counterpart, Netanyahu said radical Islam is a threat to the world, and that Israel has recently revealed a number of Iranian plots to carry out attacks on European soil. Still on the report which says that Netanyahu arrived in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Varna for Friday’s meeting of the Craiova Forum, which includes the prime ministers of Bulgaria, Greece and Romania, as well as the president of Serbia. Ahead of his trip, Netanyahu said he w...