Khashoggi death: Turkey to reveal 'naked truth' on killing
The Turkish president has vowed to reveal the "naked truth" about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has stopped short of blaming the Saudis, is due to address members of his ruling AK party.
Turkish officials say they have evidence to show Khashoggi was murdered in the consulate on 2 October.
After weeks of conflicting accounts, the Saudis now say he was killed in a rogue operation.
Tuesday's address by President Erdogan coincides with the start of an investment conference in Saudi Arabia that has been overshadowed by the Khashoggi case, with dozens of government and business leaders pulling out.
Palestinian security forces routinely torture critics, rights group says
Palestinian Authority and Hamas target each other’s supporters, says Human Rights Watch
The Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and its political rival Hamas in Gaza regularly detain and torture critics and dissenters, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a report.
Both have carried out “scores of arbitrary arrests for peaceful criticism of the authorities, particularly on social media, among independent journalists, on university campuses, and at demonstrations,” the New York-based advocacy group said.
Employing techniques HRW said mirrored practices it previously documented by Israelis against Palestinians, the group found that “security forces routinely taunt, threaten, beat, and force detainees into painful stress positions for hours at a time”.
From Germany to 'Islamic State': Christian's journey
To Sabine Lappe, Christian was a dream child. But her beloved son became an IS terrorist who died in Syria. The bereaved mother shared her story with Deutsche Welle.
One Saturday morning in 2015, Sabine Lappe's telephone rang at a quarter to six in the morning. She was outraged, she remembers. "Who on earth is calling at this hour?" On the line was Christian, her son, 27 years old at the time. "Mama, we are in Turkey," he said, "We are waiting for the transport to Syria."
Together with his young wife, Yasmina, Christian had covertly left Germany to join the terrorist militia "Islamic State" (IS). Sabine Lappe begged him to turn back, but her words fell on deaf ears. "'No, we are not coming back. We go to where Allah's word cannot be changed,' he replied to me."
How an Ivorian domestic worker escaped captivity in Kuwait
When 25-year-old Désirée Kouassi left the Ivory Coast for a job as a domestic worker in Kuwait, she hoped to make good money. Instead, she was held against her will by her employer and sexually abused for several months. Throughout her ordeal, she used her smartphone to take photos and videos as evidence. She got in touch with the FRANCE 24 Observers team, an action which triggered a series of events leading to her rescue.
On October 1, 2018, the FRANCE 24 Observers team received a message on WhatsApp from an Ivorian man.
The man had heard about a shady Kuwaiti agency called Al-Fadhli that recruits domestic workers and exploits them. His source was a childhood friend, who herself was employed by the agency and was experiencing abuse. He told us that some of these workers were being held against their will and could only obtain food in exchange for sexual favors.
“The boss demands sexual favours in exchange for food”
Washington's Bible Museum admits some of its Dead Sea Scrolls are fake
23 October 2018
When Washington's Museum of the Bible held its grand opening in November 2017, attended by US Vice President Mike Pence, there were questions already about the authenticity of its centerpiece collection of Dead Sea Scrolls.
Now the $US500million ($706 million) museum has been forced to admit a painful truth. Technical analysis by a team of German scholars has revealed that at least five of the museum's 16 scroll fragments are apparent forgeries.
The announcement has serious implications not only for the Bible Museum but for other evangelical Christian individuals and institutions who paid top dollar for what now seems to be a massive case of archaeological fraud.
Trump's midterm campaign of fear
Updated 0514 GMT (1314 HKT) October 23, 2018
Donald Trump is waging one of the most inflammatory closing arguments of any modern campaign, lacing his midterm rhetoric with easily disprovable claims that are building on the fact-challenged foundation of his presidency.
With just two weeks to go before the midterm election, the President is doing what he does best, seizing national attention with a flood of outrageous and improbable lies that drown out rivals, leverage his brawling personality and rip at fault lines of race, identity and patriotism.
Above all, Trump is hardening his line on immigration, the explosive issue that is usually a winner for him, in a strategy designed to drive his loyalists to the polls to defy ominous midterm omens that haunt every first-term president.
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