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Bomb strikes political rally for female candidate in Afghanistan

10/13/2018, 4:35:50 PM
A bomb Saturday that targeted a parliamentary election rally for a woman running for office in northeastern Afghanistan killed at least 14 people, according to a local official. ✔ Hajri told CNN the explosive was hidden inside a motorcycle and went off at the gathering in the Rustaq district ✔ Saturday's attack came after several bloody weeks in Afghanistan ✔ CNN's Lindsay Isaac, Joe Sterling and Dakin Andone contributed to this report


Death toll in Afghanistan election rally blast climbs to at least...

10/13/2018, 6:06:19 PM
The number of people killed when a bomb went off at an election rally in northea... ✔ Jawad Hejri, spokesman for Takhar governor, said at least 22 people died and 36 were wounded in the attack, in Rustaq district ✔ Seven candidates, all men, have been killed in separate attacks so far ✔ Another two have been abducted, and four others have been wounded by hardline Islamist militants, election officials said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Afghan Taliban say will continue talks with U.S. peace envoy

10/13/2018, 6:37:08 PM
Taliban leaders will continue to have discussions with the newly appointed U.S. ... ✔ A Taliban source said the U.S. delegation proposed forming different committees to handle the release of prisoners ✔ Neither side agreed to accept the other’s demands immediately, but they agreed to meet again and find a solution to the conflict, he said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Who Is Jamal Khashoggi? What to Know About the Missing Journalist

10/13/2018, 6:37:44 PM
A Saudi insider turned exiled critic. ✔ To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison ✔ Their most famous member until now was Adnan Khashoggi, the billionaire arms dealer whose biography is called The Richest Man in the World, and who in the 1980s sold his yacht, the Nabila, to Donald Trump ✔ Another member of the family, Hasan Khashoggi, made the news in Turkey in 2017 when he survived a terrorist attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, in which a gunman massacred 39 people


The Observer view on the west’s reluctance to face up to Riyadh | Observer editorial

10/13/2018, 5:38:23 PM
The presumed murder of Jamal Khashoggi has exposed the true nature of Mohammed bin Salman’s repressive dictatorship ✔ To this end, he launched the disastrous intervention in Yemen and it is Bin Salman who should one day be asked to answer for war crimes perpetrated there ✔ But for the west, the Khashoggi affair is a turning point – and the British government, and its allies, must recognise it as such


Trump Jr. retweets unsubstantiated claim on missing Saudi journalist

10/13/2018, 4:35:25 PM
Donald Trump Jr. retweeted an unsubstantiated claim on Friday insinuating missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is a terrorism sympathizer -- a move that comes as the administration of his father, President Donald Trump, faces pressure on how to respond to the journalist's disappearance. ✔ Trail of evidence According to a US official familiar with the intelligence, the United States has intercepts of Saudi officials discussing a plan to lure Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia and detain him, but it is unclear if the original plan was to murder Khashoggi or if something went wrong at the consulate and that he might have been killed during an attempt to kidnap him


Citizen journalists who shine a light on the darkest secrets

10/13/2018, 6:24:12 PM
We can no longer count on our governments to protect us from a tide of disinformation. Our security rests in the hands of open source intelligence, as pioneered by Bellingcat ✔ And when the firm threatened to sue the Guardian , it was the pioneering work of another open-source investigator, Wendy Siegelman, working with US journalist Ann Marlowe, who created a chart of its many complicated corporate structures that the Observer and Guardian ’s lawyers drew upon in our response


Jamal Khashoggi: Labour slams government’s response as ‘too little, too late’

10/13/2018, 6:24:15 PM
Emily Thornberry ramps up pressure on government as officials head for conference in Saudi Arabia ✔ That was far too little, far too late, Thornberry says, comparing it with the government’s rapid denunciation of the apparent killing of Ukrainian journalist Arkady Babchenko in May ✔ I don’t think, if this is proven, British cabinet ministers should be going, he said


Trump thanks Turkey for pastor's release, but denies cutting deal with Ankara

10/13/2018, 5:40:04 PM
President Donald Trump thanked Turkey on Saturday for freeing U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson after two years in custody and said it would help improve strained relations. ✔ Evren Atalay | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images American Pastor Andrew Craig Brunson (C), who was charged with committing crimes, including spying for the PKK terror group and the Fetullah Terrorist Organization, in Izmir, Turkey on July 25, 2018 ✔ Turkey is in a financial crisis and its lira currency has plunged against the dollar this year on concerns over Erdogans grip on monetary policy and the diplomatic dispute between Ankara and Washington


Saudi’s impatient, workaholic prince with a very thin skin

10/13/2018, 7:56:38 PM
Mohammed bin Salman cultivated an image as a reformer. But he struggles to accept any criticism ✔ Looming over the disappearance and presumed murder of a dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is a 33-year-old prince, whose ruthless pursuit of power could have been lifted almost directly from the pages of a Shakespeare play to the headlines of today ✔ People who tried to say no even gently and diplomatically faced consequences, said one source from Saudi Arabia, who asked not to be named


Jamal Khashoggi case: All the latest updates

10/13/2018, 6:54:13 PM
The US president vows to uncover the truth about the disappearance and alleged killing of Saudi journalist. ✔ Saudi officials have countered that claim, insisting Khashoggi left the building before vanishing ✔ Here are the latest developments: Saturday, October 13 Turkey urges Saudis to allow consulate search Turkey's top diplomat has reiterated a call to Saudi Arabia to allow Turkish authorities to enter the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul ✔ Straining relations between important allies ✔ Inside Story Where does the Jamal Khashoggi case leave Saudi Arabia


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