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Turkey obtains recordings of Saudi journalist’s purported killing: paper

By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's investigation into the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has revealed recordings made on his Apple Watch purportedly indicating he was tortured and killed, a Turkish newspaper reported on Saturday. The report in the pro-government Sabah daily, which could not immediately be verified, emerged after a delegation from Saudi Arabia arrived in Turkey for a joint investigation into his disappearance. "The moments when Khashoggi was interrogated... Читать дальше...

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Honduran migrant group treks north as U.S. calls for tighter borders

By Gustavo Palencia SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people, including families and women carrying babies, set off from Honduras towards the United States on Saturday, days after the United States urged Honduras' president to halt mass migration. Recent attempts at group crossings from Central America to the United States have tested U.S. President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" stance on illegal immigration, as people fleeing violence and poverty defy threats of deportation

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‘United against racism’, Germans stage mass protest against far right

By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - Protestors from across Germany marched through Berlin on Saturday against racism, xenophobia and the far right in one of the country's biggest rallies of recent years. Organisers put the turnout at 242,000 people for the demonstration, which followed anti-immigration protests in several eastern cities over the summer and a rise in support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party before a state election on Sunday.

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U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas output returning to normal post storm

HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production is returning to near normal levels three days after Hurricane Michael made landfall on the Florida Panhandle, data from an offshore regulator showed on Saturday, with oil output off 19 percent and natural gas production down less than 10 percent. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) also said in an midday update that only one evacuated production platform was still unoccupied, down from 89 platforms on Wednesday

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Venezuelan opposition activist released from jail, arrives in Spain

MADRID (Reuters) - A Venezuelan opposition activist who was freed from jail after four years arrived in Madrid on Saturday where the Spanish government said it hoped his release would help end the political crisis in the South American country. Lorent Gomez Saleh, who was prosecuted for disturbing public order after organising anti-government protests, took a direct flight from Caracas shortly after leaving jail, accompanied by a Spanish official, the Spanish government said

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Turkey says Saudi Arabia must cooperate on Khashoggi, allow access to consulate

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia must cooperate with the investigation into the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and let Turkish officials enter its Istanbul consulate, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday. Cavusoglu spoke to reporters during a visit to London, after a delegation from Saudi Arabia arrived in Turkey for a joint investigation into Khashoggi's disappearance on Oct. 2.

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Suicide bombers kill at least three in southern Somali city

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least three people were killed when two suspected suicide bombers struck separately in the southern Somali city of Baidoa on Saturday, police said. Al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab militants, who want to topple Somalia's Western-backed central government and impose their own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islam's sharia law, claimed responsibility for the twin attacks

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Chinese official says ‘sinicization’ of religion in Xinjiang must go on

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The "sinicization" of religion must be upheld to promote ethnic solidarity and religious harmony, a senior Chinese official has said in the troubled western region of Xinjiang, which is home to a large Muslim population. China's state-run Xinhua news agency on Saturday quoted You Quan, head of the ruling Communist Party's United Front Work Department, which oversees ethnic and religious affairs, as making the remarks on a visit to Xinjiang this week

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Philippines says U.N. rights council seat vindicates Duterte’s drug war

MANILA (Reuters) - Granting the Philippines a fresh three-year term on the U.N. Human Rights Council has vindicated President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on drugs and shown his detractors to be "morally corrupt", senior officials said on Saturday. Human rights activists say Duterte's "war" on drugs after taking office in June 2016 - since when the police have killed more than 4,800 people - made his government unfit for a seat at the body

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Italy must ‘calm down’ and stop questioning the euro – Draghi

By Francesco Canepa NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Italian officials must stop questioning the euro and need to "calm down" in their budget debate as they have already caused damage to firms and households, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Saturday. A senior member of Italy's ruling coalition shot back that it was Draghi who should calm down, rather than draw attention to occasional comments on the euro which were personal opinions and had no implications for government policy. Читать дальше...