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WASHINGTON The Saudi Arabian government is preparing a report that would assert Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident, was killed during an interrogation that went awry, according to CNN and other media outlets. Citing unnamed sources, CNN reported that the Saudis planned to say the operation was conducted "without clearance" from the ruling royal family an effort to shield Saudi's king, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2015, file photo, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. The disappearance of Khashoggi, during a visit to his country's consulate in Istanbul on Oct. ... The United States has asked Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. to return from a trip home with information on missing writer Jamal Khashoggi.
WASHINGTON>> President Donald Trump defended continuing huge sales of U.S. weapons to Saudi Arabia today despite rising pressure from lawmakers to punish the kingdom over the disappearance of a Saudi journalist who lived in the United States and is now feared dead. President Donald Trump said today he saw no reason to block Saudi Arabian investments in the United States despite concern over a missing Saudi journalist, saying the Gulf nation would then just move its money into Russia and China.
Tawakkol Karman, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2011, gestures as she talks to members of the media about the disappearance of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Oct. 8, 2018. Khashoggi, 59, went missing on Oct. 2 while on a visit to the consulate in Istanbul for paperwork to marry his Turkish fiance.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he saw no reason to cut off arms sales to Saudi Arabia because of the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, possibly setting up a clash with the U.S. Congress. Trump also said the United States may be closer to finding out what happened to Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Saudi policies who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. Turkish sources have said they believe Khashoggi was killed inside the building and his body removed, allegations that Riyadh dismisses as baseless.
President Donald Trump said U.S. authorities are "getting closer" to finding out what happened to a Saudi Arabian journalist who disappeared in Turkey last week, an issue that threatens to damage ties between the kingdom and Washington. "It would be a very sad thing and we will probably know in the very short future," Trump said during an interview with a Fox News program Thursday when asked about a report that Saudi leaders may have been involved in the disappearance of the journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
In this file photo taken on October 8, 2018 protestors hold pictures of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a demonstration in front of the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul. - Allegations that Saudi Arabia killed a journalist inside its Istanbul consulate have forced Donald Trump into a position he never expected -- raising human rights with the kingdom he has steadfastly supported.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the Oval Office at the White House, March 14, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Nine days after journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, President Trump has expressed only vague concern over reports that he had been murdered by a Saudi "hit team" -and late on Wednesday he all but took off the table the possibility of cutting off arms sales to the Saudis if they are found responsible for Khashoggi's likely death. "We have jobs.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry says authorities will search Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul in connection with the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A ministry statement said Saudi Arabia indicated it was open to cooperation.
Turkish authorities say a missing Saudi journalist was murdered in a Saudi consulate in Turkey by a 15 member "team." Jamal Khashoggi, who was a contributor to The Washington Post's Global Opinions section, reportedly went missing Tuesday after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, to obtain papers declaring an official divorce from his ex-wife so he could marry his new fiancee, BBC News reported Saudi Arabia has denied that Khashoggi was detained or held up in the consulate, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Khashoggi left the consulate shortly after he arrived on Tuesday, according to The Washington Post .
President Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia's king "might not be there for two weeks" without U.S. military support, further increasing his pressure on one of America's closest Mideast allies over rising oil prices. As crude oil prices reach a four-year high, Trump repeatedly has demanded OPEC and Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, push prices down.
President Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia's king "might not be there for two weeks" without U.S. military support, further increasing his pressure on one of America's closest Mideast allies over rising oil prices. As crude oil prices reach a four-year high, Trump repeatedly has demanded OPEC and Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, push prices down.
In less than a year, Saudi Arabia has curbed ties with two members of the Group of Seven nations as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman implements an increasingly assertive foreign policy. Saudi Arabia suspended diplomatic ties and new trade dealings with Canada on Sunday in response to Canada's call for the release of women's rights activists.
Saudi Arabia is attempting to bully Canada for criticizing the abysmal Saudi human rights record. . "Canada is gravely concerned about additional arrests of civil society and women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia, including Samar Badawi.
I wrote here about an emerging strategy to undermine the Iranian regime. A key element is making the regime pay for its regional adventurism, which has become quite unpopular with the Iranian population.
There, under pulsing searchlights and speakers blasting upbeat Arabic music, the women lined up to enter a parking lot that had been converted into an expo featuring an array of driving-related workshops. The festival, with the Arabic tagline Tawakli w Intalki , or "Have Confidence, and Get Out There!" began on June 21, with similar expos opening in several other Saudi cities, ahead of the end of the ban on women drivers in the Kingdom scheduled for June 24. At the expo, the guests, most clad in plain black abayas and niqabs , and a few in colorful robes, their hair uncovered, followed female guides from station to station, pausing for presentations on car maintenance, traffic etiquette, and basic technique.
Since he became Saudi Arabian energy minister two years ago, Khalid Al-Falih has had a good run: he persuaded a fractious OPEC to cut oil production, convinced Russia to join the cartel in curbing output, and then saw Brent crude rise nearly 75 percent to $80 a barrel. But his toughest test comes next week when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries holds what's likely to be its most difficult meeting in years.
The primary campaign season in Oklahoma is getting heated with both candidates for attorney general accusing each other of lying. The campaigns for Mike Hunter and Gentner Drummond have sent Oklahoma TV stations letters demanding the other's ads be pulled.
Jason Huf is a US attorney with offices in New York, Jeddah and Saudi Arabia. He resides in Burlington County, I seriously considered entering the 2018 US Senate race in New Jersey.