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Khashoggi’s fiancee and friends posted outside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul on Wednesday [Osman Orsal/Reuters] Turkish authorities believe that prominent Saudi Turkish authorities believe that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared four days ago after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, has been killed. “The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr […]

Lockheed Martin © Andy Wolfe / Reuters* The US will reportedly provide Israel with more F-35s after Russia supplied Syria with S-300 missile systems. Moscow’s move came in response to the downing of a Russian military plane, which it partly blamed on Israel. US President Donald Trump decided to lend a hand to America’s most […]

Turkish authorities believe that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared four days ago after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, was killed inside the consulate, two Turkish sources said on Saturday.”The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe […]

One expert said some of the evidence the administration has offered is a normal reaction to the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images   White House claims that China is meddling in the midterms do not ring true to experts and cybersecurity firms that have long tracked Beijing’s digital […]

Prisoners gather in the yard during a fire that raged through Donggala Penitentiary in Donggala regency, Central Sulawesi, following a riot on Sept. 29. (Kompas.com/Kristianto Purnomo) More than 1,000 escaped prisoners in Central Sulawesi remain free following the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that damaged several correctional facilities in the area. During an inspection of six prisons and detention centers […]

The participants applaud during an event to mark the 11th anniversary of the 2007 inter-Korean summit at the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Friday. Yonhap-Joint Press Corps A group of South Korean government officials, politicians and civic and religious leaders will return home late Saturday after participating in the celebration of the anniversary […]

Palestinian paramedics carry a wounded protester during clashes with Israeli forces east of Gaza city, along the Gaza-Israel border in the Gaza Strip on October 5, 2018. (AFP Photo) Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed Friday on the Gaza border by Israeli forces during protests. Fares Hafez al-Sersawi, 14, and 24-year-old Mahmud Akram […]

Jila Mossaed and Eric M Runesson. Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/Janerik Henriksson/TT The Swedish Academy has elected new members for two of its empty seats. The Swedish Academy voted on Thursday to induct laywer Eric M Runesson and writer Jila Mossaed as new members of the two-century-old cultural institution, which hands out the Nobel Prize in […]

Relief and rescue operations continue in Indonesiaafter a massive earthquake and tsunami, as time runs out to find survivors one week after the dual disasters struck Sulawesi Island. According to the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management on Friday, the death toll from the quake and tsunami has risen to 1,571. More than 70,000 homes were […]

Mogadishu –  IOM, the UN Migration Agency, assisted 17 Somali migrants in returning voluntarily from Tanzania, where they had been detained as they embarked on an unsuccessful journey to South Africa. IOM’s intervention was made under the auspices of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in the Horn of Africa (also known […]