British minister to visit Iran on Sunday for talks on tensions

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s Middle East minister Andrew Murrison will visit Iran on Sunday for “frank and constructive” talks, the Foreign Office said, amid escalating tension between Tehran and Washington after the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he aborted a military strike to retaliate for the drone incident because it could have killed 150 people, and signaled he was open to talks with Tehran.

Iran responded on Saturday by saying it would respond firmly to any threat against it, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

“At this time of increased regional tensions and at a crucial period for the future of the nuclear deal, this visit is an opportunity for further open, frank and constructive engagement with the government of Iran,” the Foreign Office said in a statement.

Murrison, a junior minister in the Foreign Office, will call for urgent de-escalation in the region and raise concerns about “Iran’s regional conduct and its threat to cease complying with the nuclear deal to which the UK remains fully committed,” the statement said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-iran-britain/british-minister-to-visit-iran-on-sunday-for-talks-on-tensions-idUSKCN1TN071

Secret Gold Trade With Uganda Exposes Underground Economy Keeping Maduro's Venezuela Afloat

Back in March, a Uganda-based gold refinery was caught importing a massive 7.4 million tons of gold under questionable circumstances.

At the time, no one could prove definitively that it was Venezuelan gold from the Maduro regime, and half of it had already been lost to export.

Now, a Wall Street Journalinvestigation has definitively exposed the scheme, concluding that the suspect African gold Refinery–launched by a Belgian in Uganda–is behind the operation to secretly help Maduro get the country’s gold to the market.

The investigation, citing unnamed sources close to the operation and both Venezuelan and Ugandan officials, determined that the $300 million in gold that landed in Uganda in March was transported to Uganda via Russian charter jets.

The gold landed in Entebbe, Uganda, and then went to the African Gold Refinery (AGR) before it was exported onward, according to the WSJ. The gold landed in two separate shipments of 3.8 tons and 3.6 tons.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-21/secret-gold-trade-uganda-exposes-underground-economy-keeping-maduros-venezuela

Daimler to recall 60,000 Mercedes diesels in Germany over emissions

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler must recall 60,000 Mercedes diesel cars in Germany after regulators found that they were fitted with software aimed at distorting emissions tests, the Transportation Ministry said on Saturday.

The model affected is the Mercedes-Benz GLK 220 produced between 2012 and 2015

Daimler confirmed that the recall was ordered on Friday but said that it would appeal against the decision while continuing to cooperate with regulators.

The ministry said that it was expanding its investigation into further models.

Since rival Volkswagen admitted in 2015 to cheating U.S. emissions tests, the scandal has spread to other carmakers. Daimler has ordered the recall of 3 million vehicles to fix excess emissions coming from their diesel engines.

Germany’s Bild am Sonntag, which first reported the recall on Saturday, had reported in April that the German auto regulator was looking into suspicious software in the Mercedes-Benz GLK 220 CDI cars produced between 2012 and 2015, after tests showed they only meet emissions limits when a certain function is activated.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-daimler-emissions/daimler-to-recall-60000-mercedes-diesels-in-germany-over-emissions-idUSKCN1TN0E8

Secret Gold Trade With Uganda Exposes Underground Economy Keeping Maduro's Venezuela Afloat

Back in March, a Uganda-based gold refinery was caught importing a massive 7.4 million ounces of gold under questionable circumstances.

At the time, no one could prove definitively that it was Venezuelan gold from the Maduro regime, and half of it had already been lost to export.

Now, a Wall Street Journalinvestigation has definitively exposed the scheme, concluding that the suspect African gold Refinery–launched by a Belgian in Uganda–is behind the operation to secretly help Maduro get the country’s gold to the market.

The investigation, citing unnamed sources close to the operation and both Venezuelan and Ugandan officials, determined that the $300 million in gold that landed in Uganda in March was transported to Uganda via Russian charter jets.

The gold landed in Entebbe, Uganda, and then went to the African Gold Refinery (AGR) before it was exported onward, according to the WSJ. The gold landed in two separate shipments of 3.8 tons and 3.6 tons.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-21/secret-gold-trade-uganda-exposes-underground-economy-keeping-maduros-venezuela

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