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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Turkish forensic teams search Saudi consulhome as part of investigation into missing journalist
Turkish crime scene investigators searched the home of the Saudi consul general in Istanbul on Wednesday after the disappearance of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, as a pro-government newspaper published a gruesome account of the journalistalleged slaying.

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Erdogan claims evidence of killing in Saudi consulate has been hidden
Turkish investigators searching the Saudi Arabian consulate where journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing have found fresh coats of paint, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

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