Six In The Morning Friday November 2

Khashoggi murder: Saudi prince 'said he was dangerous Islamist'

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the US he considered murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be a dangerous Islamist, media reports say.

Prince Mohammed's reported phone call to the White House came before Saudi Arabia admitted he had been killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Saudi Arabia has denied the reports in the Washington Post and New York Times.

A Saudi national and well-known critic of Saudi rulers, Khashoggi was killed and his body dismembered on 2 October.

'We live in misery': New Caledonia's indigenous people fight for independence from France

As the country prepares for a referendum on 4 November, the scars of colonisation are still raw

Kim Lévy and Prianka Srinivasan in Thio

Just over 16,700km from Paris, on the edge of the southwest Pacific Ocean, lies a little piece of France. In New Caledonia, locals eat croissants for breakfast, crêpes for lunch and in the afternoons play pétanque in shady city squares. They drive on the right, speak fluent French and the outskirts of the capital Nouméa are dotted with hypermarchés.

But this far-flung outpost of Gallic life might not be officially French for much longer. On Sunday, residents of the cluster of islands will vote on their future in an independence referendum. For the locals of mining town Thio, which lies two hours east of Nouméa, that moment cannot come soon enough.

Trudeau won’t stop $12bn of arms sales to Saudi after Khashoggi’s death because money always wins over murder

The Canadian prime minister may have condemned the actions of the Saudi regime, but his position over light-armoured vehicle sales to the kingdom tells us everything we need to know

Robert FiskOttawa @indyvoices

Almost 5,000 miles from the city in which his corpse was secretly buried – in one piece or in bits – by his Saudi killers, Jamal Khashoggi’s murder now rattles the scruples and the purse-strings of yet another country. For Canada, land of the free and liberal conscience – especially under Justin Trudeau – is suddenly confronted by the fruits of the bright young prime minister’s Conservative predecessors and a simple question of conscience for cash: should Trudeau tear up a 2014 military deal with Saudi Arabia worth $12bn?

When Ottawa decided to sell its spanking new light armoured vehicles (LAVs) to the Saudi kingdom, the Saudis already had a well-earned reputation for chopping off heads and supporting raving and well-armed Islamists. But Mohammed bin Salman had not yet ascended the crown princedom of this pious state. The Saudis had not yet invaded Yemen, chopped off the heads of its Shia leaders, imprisoned its own princes, kidnapped the Lebanese prime minister and dismembered Khashoggi.

Polish president seeks WWII reparations from Germany

A feud over World War II reparations will come to the fore as Polish leaders hold talks with German Chancellor Merkel's government. Germany has said the issue is settled, but a Polish parliamentary inquiry disagreed.

For over a year, members of Poland's governing national-conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) have been raising their voices, calling once again for Germany to pay World War II reparations to Poland. The issue is sure to come up during German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Warsaw on Friday.

Most recently, Polish President Andrzej Duda has stated it in an interview with German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

Duda told the newspaper that a parliamentary inquiry had investigated Poland's war damages and its preliminary results showed that the country's wartime losses have not been properly compensated.

Judge who led Lula probe to be Brazil's justice minister

The judge who has upended Brazilian politics with a sweeping corruption investigation, Sergio Moro, accepted an offer Thursday from far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro to be his justice minister.

Bolsonaro had publicly offered Moro the post after being swept to the presidency Sunday on a wave of anti-establishment anger fueled partly by Moro's probe into the large-scale looting of state oil company Petrobras, which has put a laundry list of politicians and executives in jail.

Moro flew to Rio de Janeiro on Thursday for a meeting with the hardline conservative, which ended with him accepting the offer to head a "super ministry" combining the justice and public security portfolios, both men said.

Japanese journalist freed from Syria says sorry for involving gov't

Freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda apologized on Friday for getting the Japanese government involved in efforts to rescue him from Syria where he was held in captivity for more than three years.

"I'm sorry for involving the Japanese government in the case," Yasuda, 44, said in front of hundreds of reporters at his first press conference since returning to Japan last week. He said he was captured in Syria shortly after he crossed the border with Turkey on foot in June 2015.

He recounted details of his ordeal including suffering violence at the hands of the militant group that held him. But he said he was never told the name of the group.