Six In The Morning Friday November 16

Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in Cambodia’s ‘Nuremberg’ moment

Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea are the two most senior living leaders of regime that presided over deaths of at least 1.7 million in Cambodia

Hannah Ellis-Petersen South-east Asia correspondent

Fri 16 Nov 2018 04.49 GMT

The two most senior Khmer Rouge leaders still alive today have been found guilty of genocide, almost 40 years since Pol Pot’s brutal communist regime fell, in a verdict followed by millions of Cambodians.

Nuon Chea, 92, who was second-in-command to Pol Pot, and Khieu Samphan, 87, who served as head of state, were both sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide carried out between 1977 and 1979, in what is a landmark moment for the Khmer Rouge tribunals.

As senior figures in the Khmer regime, the court declared both men responsible for murder, extermination, enslavement, imprisonment, torture, persecution on religious and political grounds and mass rape through the policy of forced marriages.

Khashoggi murder: Saudi prosecutor absolves MBS of blame and seeks death penalty for five suspects

Three officials close to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman implicated in murder of journalist, but not heir to the throne himself

Borzou DaragahiIstanbul

Saudi Arabia claims a rogue “negotiation team” formed by one of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s top security officials, cheered on by his communications chief, and led by an intelligence official repeatedly pictured with him, killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi by injecting him with drugs during a bungled kidnap attempt.

But Saudi prosecutor Saud al-Mujeb insisted in an 18-minute press conference on Thursday that the crown prince himself had nothing to do with the operation that led to Khashoggi’s murder inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October.

Mr Mujeb also announced that his office was seeking the death penalty for five of 11 Saudi suspects already charged with the killing. Another 10 suspects remain in custody, state media reported.

Reports: North Korea tests "cutting-edge" weapons

Despite a lot of fanfair over arms reduction on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang has announced it is testing new weapons. It says it has long been developing its new weapons system, which was tested on Friday.

North Korea is developing and testing modern strategic weapons, state media outlets announced on Friday.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un "inspected the testing of a newly developed high-tech tactical weapon at the Academy of National Defence Science," the state broadcaster said.

The weapon was not described, but the test was reportedly successful.

Migrant caravan reaches US-Mexico border to cold welcome

The Central American migrant caravan trekking toward the United States converged on the US-Mexican border Thursday after more than a month on the road, undeterred by President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of American troops near the border.

Around 800 migrants riding on 22 buses arrived at dawn in Tijuana, which is located across from San Diego, California, and walked from the highway into the city in waves, their belongings on their backs.

They joined more than 750 other caravan members who had traveled ahead and reached the city in recent days.

The full caravan – some 5,500 migrants in all – was expected to continue arriving in Tijuana in the coming hours thanks to buses organized by charities, private donors and local authorities, with the last groups reaching the city by Friday.

AMAZON HQ2 WILL COST TAXPAYERS AT LEAST $4.6 BILLION, MORE THAN TWICE WHAT THE COMPANY CLAIMED, NEW STUDY SHOWS

David Dayen, Rachel M. Cohen

AMAZON’S ANNOUNCEMENT THIS week that it will open its new headquarters in New York City and northern Virginia came with the mind-boggling revelation that the corporate giant will rake in $2.1 billion in local government subsidies. But an analysis by the nation’s leading tracker of corporate subsidies finds that the government handouts will actually amount to at least $4.6 billion.

But even that figure, which accounts for state and local perks, doesn’t take into account a gift that Amazon will also enjoy from the federal government, a testament to the old adage that in Washington, bad ideas never die.

Women in Tokyo strongly back single-sex transport amid security fears: global poll

By Machel Reid and Beh Lih Yi

Women in Tokyo are most in favor of having single-sex carriages on public transport, according to a poll in five of the world's biggest commuter cities released on Thursday, despite such policies facing growing criticism.

A Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of 1,000 female travelers in Tokyo, London, New York City, Cairo and Mexico City found less than half supported women-only sections on trains and buses to boost safety.

But nearly 70 percent of women in Tokyo backed the single-sex carriages introduced in the city in 2000 to combat a phenomenon commonly known as chikan, or groping, on trains.