Jamal Khashoggi audio: US requests recording evidence from Turkey
by Katy Fallon
Donald Trump says the US has asked Turkey for an audio recording of Jamal Khashoggi’s death which reportedly proves he was brutally tortured before his premeditated murder inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Turkish officials said the audio recording had been handed over to the US and Saudi Arabia. But on Wednesday, Trump told reporters: “We’ve asked for it … if it exists” – before adding that it “probably does” exist.
Trump had previously suggested he believes the denials of responsibility from the Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and warned against a rush to judgement.
How the new wave of far-right populists are using football to further their power
Football is the perfect arena for the unscrupulous populist and macho, nativist fantasies of a new breed of neo-fascists, writes Jonathan Liew
Viktor Orban was in London earlier this month. It wasn’t a state visit or a political trip: on the contrary, the Hungarian prime minister was barely in the country for more than a few hours. Not one but two private jets were required to ferry Orban’s vast entourage, among them Sandor Csanyi, the richest man in Hungary and the head of the Hungarian football association; Maria Schmidt, a conservative historian and government advisor; and Adnan Polat, a Turkish businessman and former president of Galatasaray. The venue they had chosen for their visit was Stamford Bridge, the occasion Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Vidi, and if the above all seems like a lot of fuss for a drab Europa League group game, then it helps to understand the many and particular roles that football plays in the regime of a man frequently described as a dangerous authoritarian with strong fascist leanings.
Orban’s own interest in football goes well beyond the cursory. He played at an amateur level in his younger days - you could even sign him on Football Manager once - and since returning to office in 2010, has turned his lifelong passion into a peculiar and vaguely sinister form of soft power that serves as a reflection - and perhaps even a portent - of football’s function in the rise of global far-right populism.
In US midwest, could farmers' fury spell trouble for Trump?
Few have been hit as hard by Donald Trump's trade war with China than US farmers, with retaliatory tariffs from Beijing threatening their livelihoods. Now, with the midterms approaching, are Trump and the Republican party about to pay the price?
"I'll die before we lose this farm," says Nicole Issert as she fights back tears. "We have loans, we have to pay a lot of money every month. Dad has been freaking out."
"I'll have to make it to 100 to pay it off," adds her 87-year-old father Leon with wry humour, sitting next to her at the kitchen table of their farmhouse in Peotone, Illinois.
The Issert family, whose main crops are corn and soybeans, have been farming in this same corner of the American midwest for more than a century across four generations, surviving the inevitable ups and downs of an industry dependent on the vagaries of the weather, varying crop yields and costly equipment repairs and replacements.
Return to Rakhine: 'Genocide never happened in this country'
Updated 0446 GMT (1246 HKT) October 18, 2018
As our convoy of white jeeps rattles along the dirt roads through a vast landscape of fertile farmland, it's hard to see any physical evidence of the 392 villages that were burned down in Myanmar's Rakhine State, other than the odd patch of blackened, decaying trees.
The rainy season has helped to replace much of the scorched earth with lush green fields, and rampant bulldozing and building work throughout the state has largely erased all memories of the Rohingya Muslims that lived here until they were forced to flee a little over a year ago.
CNN joined a government-led tour of the highly restricted area in late September, part of an attempt by authorities to convince the media -- and the rest of the world -- that accusations of genocide are false.
The 'peaceful' refugee camp with yoga classes and lavender bushes
Pikpa is run and celebrated by Lesbos residents, just a short distance from Moria, one of the world's worst camps.by Katy Fallon
The Greek island of Lesbos has become synonymous with the story of Europe's refugee crisis.
Its largest camp, Moria, continues to make headlines as residents lament inadequate facilities for its population, which at around 8,000 is well above its official capacity of 3,000.
Twenty minutes' drive from Moria and 10 minutes from island's largest city of Mytilene is Pikpa, a camp run by Lesvos (Lesbos) Solidarity, a group started by residents in response to the increasing number of refugees arriving on the island.
Jamal Khashoggi disappearance: Last column published
The Washington Post has published missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's last column - a call for press freedom across the Arab world.
The newspaper said it decided to go ahead after accepting Mr Khashoggi was not going to return safely.
The journalist has not been seen since entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, where Turkish officials allege he was killed.
Saudi Arabia, which denies the killing, allowed investigators inside overnight.
Turkish crime scene teams were seen leaving the consulate early on Thursday morning.
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