Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia has convicted eight people over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, after his family announced pardons that spared five from execution. The Washington Post columnist was drugged and dismembered inside the kingdom's Istanbul consulate in 2018. On Monday the Riyadh Criminal Court issued final verdicts against eight people. Five…

Ramona Diaz’s latest documentary, A Thousand Cuts, stars former CNN correspondent and Rappler co-founder Maria Ressa, a formidable Filipino reporter who was born in the country yet spent much of her youth, as well as her college years, in the U.S. Ressa became famous herself when she began being targeted…

Updated 16 hours ago · Published on 7 Aug 2020 7:00AM · Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman allegedly ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. – EPA pic, August 7, 2020. A FORMER senior Saudi intelligence official said in a US suit yesterday that the country’s Crown Prince Mohammed…

The chaotic and conflict-ridden Middle East is a scene of American failure. In recent decades, the United States has lavished more resources and attention there than on any other region. It has incurred more American military deaths in Iraq than in any other war since the Vietnam War. The current…

Ali Soufan, a decorated veteran of U.S. law enforcement, has become the target of a vitriolic social-media campaign.Photograph by Antonio Olmos / The Guardian / eyevine / ReduxIn early May, officials with the C.I.A. reached out to Ali Soufan, a former F.B.I. agent who served as a lead investigator in…

The UK is imposing sanctions on 49 people and organisations accused of “notorious” human rights abuses, the government has announced.A total of 25 Russian nationals will see their UK assets frozen and be banned from entering the country over their links to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, “who uncovered…

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate.Twenty people including the Saudi deputy intelligence chief are standing trial.Jamal Khashoggi's remains has never been found.Twenty Saudi suspects including two former aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman went on trial Friday in absentia in Turkey, accused of killing…

A SUPERYACHT previously named after the fugitive socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been spotted in New Zealand after sailing from Australia. But the mystery of her whereabouts remains after the crew reportedly refused to say how long it's been in Auckland or who is on board. 10The superyacht has been spotted…

A friend of the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz is a thorn in the side of Saudi Arabia. Living in exile in Canada, the activist has been warned by the police of a possible threat against him. Omar Abdulaziz knows that Saudi dissidents are not tolerated by Crown Prince Mohammed bin…

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen in Lauwin-Planque, northern France, April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday launched a website for shoppers in Saudi Arabia, showing its continued business interests there despite a public dispute between Riyadh and the company’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos. The…