Mosque congregation praying in wrong direction for 40 years
Worshippers at a mosque in Turkey had been praying in the wrong direction for nearly four decades before its new imam realised the error.

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Jamal Khashoggi 'died in a fight at Saudi consulate' - State-run media
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi has died, and Saudi Arabia said it fired two senior officials over the incident that has provoked an international outcry and strained relations between Riyadh and the West.

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Donald Trump says it 'certainly looks' like Saudi journalist Khashoggi is dead
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he presumes journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and that the US response to Saudi Arabia will likely be "very severe" but that he still wanted to get to the bottom of what exactly happened.

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Power games played as search for dismembered remains goes on in consulate back garden
The lurid details of Jamal Khashoggi's alleged killing released yesterday were perhaps the most shocking of a slow drip of revelations.

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Sofa bomb kills 10th candidate
A former Communist general turned prominent politician has been killed by a Taliban bomb hidden in his sofa as he campaigned for this weekend's parliamentary election in Afghanistan.

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Comment: Case of missing Saudi journalist highlights America's diminishing influence in the Middle East
When it comes to defining Americaquandary on Saudi Arabia, US President Donald Trumpdescription is mercenary in the extreme. If Washington doesn&t stay close to Riyadh and sell it arms, he told reporters in the Oval Office this weekend, the Saudis will turn to Moscow or Beijing instead. Given that, he seemed to be suggesting, the United States should just keep its plans for a $110 billion arms deal and the 450,000 jobs he says it would bring.

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