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[ad_1] Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Jamal Khashoggi: What we know about the journalist's disappearance The UK, Germany and France have demanded a credible investigation into the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Their foreign ministers said that if anyone were found responsible they should be held accountable, and urged a detailed response from Riyadh. UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that whatever happened now was "absolutely up to Saudi Arabia". The Saudis deny Mr Khashoggi was killed in their consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. A source quoted by Saudi state media says the country rejects political and economic threats and will meet any action taken against the kingdom with a bigger one in response. Mr Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, vanished on 2 October after visiting its consulate in Istanbul. The Turkish authorities in Istanbul believe Mr Khashoggi was murdered ...

[ad_1] Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Jamal Khashoggi: What we know about the journalist's disappearance Saudi Arabia rejects political and economic "threats" over missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a source quoted by state news agency SPA says. Saudi Arabia would respond to any punitive action "with a bigger one", the unnamed senior source said. Mr Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, vanished on 2 October after visiting its consulate in Istanbul. US President Donald Trump said he would "punish" Saudi Arabia if it were found responsible for killing him. The authorities in Istanbul believe Mr Khashoggi was murdered in the consulate by Saudi agents - claims Riyadh has dismissed as "lies". Britain and the US are considering boycotting a major international conference in Saudi Arabia this month. What is the latest from the Saudis? The source quoted by SPA said: "The king...

[ad_1] President Donald Trump added to the pressure on Saudi Arabia over the fate of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi , vowing "severe punishment" should the kingdom's leaders be linked to his disappearance. "Nobody knows" whether Saudi officials are involved although they "deny it vehemently," Trump said in an excerpt of a CBS News "60 Minutes" interview to be broadcast on Sunday night. "It's being looked at very, very strongly. We would be very upset and angry if that was the case." "We're going to get to the bottom of it, and there will be severe punishment," the president said. "Could it be them? Yes." Khashoggi, a Saudi critic of the regime, hasn't been seen since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to pick up a document for his upcoming wedding. Turkish officials say they have audio and video recordings that show a Saudi security team detained Khashoggi in the consula...

[ad_1] KATHMANDU: Seven people, including South Korean climbers, were killed and two more are missing on Gurja Himal mountain after a strong storm swept through their base camp, Nepalese police said Saturday. A storm Friday night destroyed their camp and two rescue helicopters sent early Saturday were unable to land because of bad weather conditions on the mountain, said police official Bir Bahadur Budamagar. Villagers who reached base camp Saturday afternoon found the bodies of four South Korean climbers, two Nepalese guides and another person yet to be identified, while the search was continuing for two more, Budamagar said. There were five South Korean climbers and four Nepalese guides in the camp when the strong storm hit. It was unlikely the weather would clear on Saturday and helicopter flights were likely to be possible only on Sunday. A police team was heading toward the base camp on foot and will likely reach there on Sunday, Budamagar said. The climbers were attempting to sc...

[ad_1] JAKARTA: Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra , killing at least 22 people, mostly children at a school, and leaving 15 others missing, officials said Saturday. A flash flood with mud and debris from landslides struck Mandailing Natal district in North Sumatra province and smashed an Islamic school in Muara Saladi village, where 21 children were swept away on Friday afternoon, said local police chief Irsan Sinuhaji. He said rescuers retrieved the bodies of 11 children from mud and rubble hours later. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency's spokesman, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said rescuers were searching for 10 other children still missing. A video obtained by The Associated Press showed relatives crying besides their loved ones at a health clinic where the bodies of the children were lying, covered with blankets. Nugroho said two bodies were found early Saturday from a car washed away by floods in Mandailing Natal, where...

[ad_1] KATHMANDU: Five South Korean climbers and four Nepalese guides were missing on Gurja Himal mountain after a strong storm swept through their base camp, officials and expedition organizers said Saturday. A storm Friday night destroyed their camp and rescue helicopter sent early Saturday were unable to land because of bad weather conditions on the mountain, police official Bir Bahadur Budamagar said. It was unlikely the weather would clear on Saturday and the base camp is at least one-day trek from the nearest village. A police team was also heading toward the base camp on foot and would likely reach there on Sunday. The climbers were attempting to scale the 7,193-meter (23,590-foot) peak during the Autumn climbing season. [ad_2]

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has declared the US will uncover the truth about what happened to journalist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi , whose possible murder at Saudi hands after disappearing in Istanbul has captured worldwide attention. Trump promised Friday to personally call Saudi Arabia 's King Salman soon about "the terrible situation in Turkey ." Khashoggi, a forceful critic of the Saudi government, went missing more than a week ago after entering a Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Turkish officials have said they believe he was murdered there. US officials say they are seeking answers from the Saudi government and are not yet accepting the Turkish government's conclusions. The Saudis have called accusations that they are responsible for Khashoggi's disappearance "baseless." [ad_2]

[ad_1] RIYADH: Saudi Arabia dismissed on Saturday accusations that Jamal Khashoggi was ordered murdered by a hit squad inside its Istanbul consulate as "lies and baseless allegations", as Riyadh and Ankara spa over the missing journalist's fate. As the controversy intensified, the Washington Post reported Turkish officials had recordings made from inside the building that allegedly proved their claims Khashoggi was tortured and killed at the consulate. A Saudi delegation arrived in Turkey for talks, officials said on Friday, with the case risking fragile relations between the two. In the first Saudi ministerial reaction to the accusations about Khashoggi's killing, Interior Minister Prince Abdel Aziz bin Saud bin Nayef said that "what has been circulating about orders to kill him are lies and baseless allegations". The Kingdom "is committed to its principles, rules and traditions and is in compliance with international laws and conventions", he ad...

[ad_1] BEIRUT: The Saudi contributor to Washington Post who went missing more than a week ago and is feared dead had major plans, including a string of new projects to promote inclusiveness and accountability lacking around the Arab world, his friends say. Jamal Khashoggi , a prolific writer and commentator, was working quietly with intellectuals, reformists and Islamists to launch a group called Democracy for the Arab World Now. He wanted to set up a media watch organization to keep track of press freedom. He also planned to launch an economic-focused website to translate international reports into Arabic to bring sobering realities to a population often hungry for real news, not propaganda. Part of Khashoggi's approach was to include political Islamists in what he saw as democracy building. That - along with his sharp criticisms of the kingdom's crackdowns on critics, its war in Yemen and its policy on Iran - put him at odds with the rulers of Saudi Arabia, which deeply oppos...

[ad_1] Image caption Rescue workers in Majorca are searching for a missing child The search continues for missing people following flash flooding events in Spain, Italy, and France. Ten people died in Majorca, Spain, including two British citizens. Three more remain unaccounted for, including a five-year-old child. Elsewhere, torrential rain and flooding killed a number of people caught in their cars during floods. Two people died in Sainte-Maxime on France's south coast, while a woman was found dead in Sardinia. Search for missing boy The two British victims of the Majorca floods have been named as Anthony and Delia Green, a pair of holidaymakers in their 70s. They were discovered in their taxi, which had been swept away by the water near the tourist town of Sant Llorenç. The body of the taxi driver was discovered nearby. More than one hundred rescue work...

[ad_1] Image copyright TRT World Image caption This image appears to show Jamal Khashoggi entering the consulate last week Turkish TV has aired video from CCTV said to show missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Mr Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi monarchy, visited on 2 October but failed to re-emerge. Turkish security sources say they fear he was killed there. Saudi Arabia denies this. The video also shows vehicles driving up to the consulate, including a black van thought central to inquiries. Footage broadcast by Turkey's TRT World channel also shows a group of men apparently passing through security at Istanbul airport. Turkey's Sabah newspaper reports that it has identified 15 members of an intelligence team it says was involved in the Saudi's disappearan...

[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Fears have been growing for the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi - a well-known Saudi journalist - went into his country's consulate in Istanbul on 2 October to obtain a marriage document and, according to Turkish police, never came out. Authorities in Istanbul believe he was murdered within the consulate walls, but the Saudi government maintains he left. Once an adviser to the royal family, he had fallen sharply out of favour with the Saudi government and went into self-imposed exile last year. We take a look at Mr Khashoggi, his career and the events that led up to his disappearance. Born in Medina in 1958, he studied business administration in the ...

[ad_1] Image copyright AFP / Getty Images Image caption Saudi officials have let some journalists inside the consulate since the allegation was made Turkey has requested a search of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, after saying that a journalist was murdered within its walls, media reports say. Missing writer Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi national, was last seen visiting the consulate on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia has called the allegations baseless. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has previously said officials are welcome to conduct a search as there is nothing to hide. Missing Saudi writer gets blank column Who is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed? Turkish officials made the accusation on Sunday. They said their investigators had "concrete proof" of the killing which, they said, was carried out by a 15-person Saudi tea...

[ad_1] Image copyright Reuters Image caption More than 1,750 people were killed in the earthquake and tsunami Indonesian officials have said the search for victims of last month's earthquake and tsunami is to end on Thursday - despite the fact hundreds of people are still unaccounted for. The disaster struck part of Sulawesi two weeks ago, leaving at least 1,754 dead and another 2,549 injured. Officially, 683 people remain missing, though some put that figure far higher. No-one has been found alive since the third day of the search. The city of Palu has been hardest hit. The 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck on 28 September, bringing down buildings and, in some areas, turning the ground to liquid in a process called "liquefaction" and moving entire neighbourhoods. This was followed by a tsunami. The BBC...

[ad_1] JAKARTA: As many as 5,000 people are believed missing from the quake and tsunami that struck Indonesia 's Palu city, an official said Sunday, an indication that far more may have perished in the twin disaster than the current toll suggests. Indonesia's disaster agency say they have recovered 1,763 bodies so far from the 7.5-magnitude and subsequent tsunami that struck Sulawesi on September 28. But there are fears that two of the hardest-hit neighbourhoods in Palu — Petobo and Balaroa —could contain thousands more victims, swallowed up by the ground as it engulfed whole communities. "Based on reports from the (village) heads of Balaroa and Petobo, there are about 5,000 people who have not been found," agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told reporters Sunday. "Nevertheless, officials there are still trying to confirm this and are gathering data. It is not easy to obtain the exact number of those trapped by landslides, or liquefaction, or mud." Nugro...

[ad_1] Image copyright AFP Image caption Meng Hongwei is a senior Communist Party official as well as Interpol president International police agency Interpol has urged China to clarify the status of its president, Meng Hongwei, who has gone missing on a visit to the country. The agency said it was concerned about the well-being of its president. His family have not heard from him since he left Interpol HQ in the French city of Lyon on 25 September. China has made no official comment. The South China Morning Post quotes a source as saying Mr Meng, 64, was "taken away" for questioning in China. It is not clear why he was being investigated by "discipline authorities" or where he was being held, the Hong Kong-based newspaper adds. Chinese official to head Interpol Earlier this week, actress Fan Bin...

[ad_1] Image copyright EPA Image caption Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since lunchtime on Tuesday Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said his country's consulate in Istanbul can be searched for a missing Saudi journalist. Turkish authorities were welcome to search the building for Jamal Khashoggi , who has not been heard from since Tuesday, he told Bloomberg News. Mr Khashoggi - a critic of Mr bin Salman - disappeared after entering the consulate to complete paperwork. He left "a few minutes or one hour" after going in, the prince said. "He's a Saudi citizen and we are very keen to know what happened to him. And we will continue our dialogue with the Turkish government to see what happened to Jamal there," he said in the interview with Bloomberg. "My understa...

[ad_1] PARIS: French police have opened an investigation into the reported disappearance last month of Meng Hongwei , the Chinese head of the international police organisation Interpol , a source close to the inquiry said. Meng was last seen leaving for China from Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, southeast France, in late September, the source said. His wife reported him missing. [ad_2]

[ad_1] Image copyright Washington Post Image caption The blank column appears online and in the print edition The Washington Post has printed a blank column in support of its missing Saudi contributor Jamal Khashoggi. Mr Khashoggi - a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - has not been seen since visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia says he left the building but Turkey says he may still be inside. The newspaper said it was "worried" and called on Mr bin Salman to "welcome constructive criticism from patriots such as Mr Khashoggi". In an editorial, it asked that the crown prince do "everything in his power" to let the journalist work . Previously an adviser to senior Saudi officials, Mr Khashoggi moved abroad after his Saudi newspaper column was c...