The Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered at the consulate of Saudi Arabia. That is what Yasin Aktay, adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Turkish ruling party AK, told TV channel CNN Turk. He said earlier that Khashoggi did not leave the consulate in a 'normal way'.
A white cop in Chicago has been found guilty of murder because of the shooting of a black teenager in 2014. He can go to jail for up to twenty years, reports The Washington Post.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) of philanthropist and billionaire George Soros has moved to Berlin and started working there. According to German media, it will be eighty employees and their families for the time being, but ultimately 150 people will work for the foundation in the German capital.
A prominent critic of the government in Saudi Arabia has disappeared in Turkey. He is probably being held at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul.
The hearing on alleged sexual misconduct by Chief Prosecutor Brett Kavanaugh began in Washington with great interest. Both Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford are speaking.
A third woman presented Wednesday with accusations to Brett Kavanaugh. Julie Swetnick, who lives in Washington, said that Trump's candidacy for the American Supreme Court displayed sexual cross-border behavior during his high school time. He participated in the attempts to get girls intoxicated to abuse them afterwards.
Donald Trump meets Thursday with Rod Rosenstein. That is the deputy minister of justice and supervisor of the investigation that special prosecutor Robert Mueller is setting up for possible Russian interference with the American presidential election. That is what the spokeswoman for the White House Sarah Sanders announced.
The Chinese government called on the American ambassador in Beijing and is planning military talks with the US. With these measures, the country responds to the sanctions that Washington imposed on a Chinese military agency last week.
The Chinese Ministry of Defense is demanding that US sanctions be removed against a Chinese military agency. If this does not happen, then the United States will 'experience the consequences'.
In a new escalation of the trade war with the United States, China canceled planned trade negotiations on import duties. According to the Wall Street Journal, a visit by Deputy Prime Minister Liu He to Washington will not be held next week. A delegation that would prepare the visit also stays at home.
In their struggle with Iran, the United States is increasingly attracting a shadowy opposition group that recently appeared on the terror list of both America and the European Union. The Iranian Volksmoedjahedien (MEK), headquartered in Albania, finds a willing ear in the highest echelons of Washington thanks to its main objective: to overthrow the regime in Tehran.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is speaking to his US counterpart Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday. Moon is in North Korea for a three-day summit with the dictator of that country, Kim Jong-un. The summit ends Friday. Moon then goes Sunday to New York reported news agency Yonhap.
An American woman who says she was sexually abused by candidate chief judge Brett Kavanaugh wants to make a statement on this in the senate committee for legal affairs. That's what her lawyer told CNN on Monday.
Hundreds of mountain goats are evicted from Olympic National Park in Washington state because they pose a threat to visitors to the park. The goats have become so addicted to the salt in human urine and smell of sweat that they aggressively approach unsuspecting walkers.
An American woman who says she was sexually abused by candidate chief judge Brett Kavanaugh, comes out. So far it was anonymous accusations, but Sunday Washington Post puts an interview with the woman, Christine Blasey Ford.
If the United States indeed comes with new import duties on Chinese products, the planned trade negotiations with Washington will not take place. Chinese officials told the Wall Street Journal that Sunday.
Paul Manafort, former President Trump's campaign leader, is ready to confess to several criminal offenses. The 69-year-old lobbyist has made a deal with prosecutors, which can be drawn from court documents.
While the whole of America holds his heart for Friday, the video images of the damage that hurricane Florence is already causing in the US speak volumes. North Carolina is plagued by flooding.
The American emergency response service FEMA has asked the EU for satellite images of hurricane Florence. That request has been granted. Current images that the European Copernicus system has made of the American East Coast are made available by the European Coordination Center for Disaster Relief, so that Washington can map out the situation better.
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The US capital Washington DC is preparing for the arrival of hurricane Florence. In the city the state of emergency has been proclaimed, following the nearby states of Virginia and Maryland, according to the Washington Post newspaper.
In the presence of the American President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, the attacks of September 11, 2001, were commemorated in Shanksville.
The French government expressly expressed support to the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is a reaction to the threatening language of the American national security adviser John Bolton. He has already declared the court dead.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague does not seem to intend to change course after threats from the American national security adviser John Bolton. The top advisor of President Donald Trump warned that his country 'will fight back \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; if the court starts an investigation into the actions of Americans in Afghanistan.
The Americans continue to tighten the Palestinians on the thumbscrews. After the decision to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem, discounts of 500 million dollars were added last week, including to the refugee organization Unwra. And on Monday, the US closed the Palestinian 'embassy' in Washington. Everything under the heading 'Who does not want to listen should only feel'.
US President Donald Trump is threatening another $ 267 billion in import duties on products from China.
US President Donald Trump has accused social media of trying to influence the upcoming elections. Those social media are 'superlinks', he said in a conversation with the conservative weblog The Daily Caller.
Jon Kyl, once one of the most influential Republicans in the US Senate, returns to Capitol Hill. He succeeds the late John McCain, reports the newspaper The Arizona Republic. Governor Doug Ducey will present the 76-year-old Kyl Tuesday at a press conference in Phoenix, after having informed McCain's widow Cindy and other key politicians of the decision.
The Thurston County police in Washington State is seriously working on hunting a cat killer, who has already turned thirteen gruesome mutilated victims.
The US Department of Defense has taken a final decision to stop $ 300 million (258 million euros) of aid to Pakistan. According to the Americans Islamabad continues to do little against militants in the country.
