By Recep Tayyip Erdogan The story is all too familiar: Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and a family man, entered Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 for marriage formalities. No one – not even his fiancee, who was waiting outside the compound — has ever seen him again....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said the order for journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing came from the top levels of the Saudi government. In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, Erdogan said Turkey knows the perpetrators are among the 18 suspects detained...

A recent move by the U.S. to lift sanctions on two Turkish ministers is an important step for normalizing strained ties between the two countries, Turkey's ruling party spokesman said. Speaking after a Justice and Development (AK) Party meeting, Omer Celik said the U.S. decision to lift...

Greek authorities say they have broken a criminal organization that smuggled migrants from Greece to Italy by yacht, and have arrested eight suspected members. A coast guard statement says the ring had been about to smuggle 119 people to Italy on the yacht when they were arrested early...

An Israeli official on Friday called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul "despicable" but said that cementing ties with Gulf states in the struggle against Iran was Israel's overriding concern. In his remarks to radio station 102 FM, Energy...

Germany is still waiting for a transparent and credible investigation from Saudi Arabia into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and is ready to take action in light of new findings, a government spokesman has said. The spokesman, who asked not to be named, told Anadolu Agency that Germany...

Killings of journalists outside of armed conflict zones are on the rise, according to reports. The recent killing of Jamal Khashoggi has put the issue squarely back into the global spotlight as the world marks Nov. 2 as the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists....

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said it may take "a handful more weeks" before Washington has enough evidence to impose sanctions on individuals responsible for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The murder has placed strain on the decades-old alliance between the United...

European ambassadors and foreign business lobbies are calling on China to introduce "bold" and concrete market reforms at a Shanghai trade fair next week that the government touts as proof of its commitment to opening up. President Xi Jinping on Monday formally kicks off the week-long China...

Thousands of Google employees and contractors staged brief midday walk-outs Thursday at offices across Asia, Europe and North America to protest sexism, racism and unchecked executive power in their workplace. At Google's global headquarters in Mountain View, California, hundreds of...

Russia imposed sweeping financial sanctions on Ukraine's political elite Thursday, freezing the Russian assets of hundreds of politicians and dozens of businesses owned by major Ukrainian businessmen. The sanctions were set out in a decree signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry...

On Oct. 20, Arabic-language website alawatanews.com published a report that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had been forced out of power. Citing the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), it said King Salman had signed a decree removing the prince “against the backdrop of growing...

Pakistan’s top court on Wednesday overturned the death sentence of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy. While Ireland recently voted to oust its ‘medieval’ law, many European countries still have laws criminalising blasphemy. Could the tide finally be turning against blasphemy? On...

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul as part of a premeditated killing, and his body was dismembered before being disposed of, a top Turkish prosecutor said Wednesday. A statement from chief Istanbul prosecutor Irfan Fidan's...

 The 26-year-old Yazidi mother faces a heartbreaking choice. Her family is preparing to emigrate from Iraq to Australia and start a new life after the suffering Daesh (ISIS) wreaked on their small religious minority. She is desperate to go with them, but there is also someone she can’t bear...

France has launched a nationwide probe into incidents of babies being born with either missing or malformed arms after abnormal rates of deformations were detected in several regions of the country, a top public health official said Wednesday. Francois Bourdillon, head of the Public...

A suicide bomber targeting a bus carrying employees of Afghanistan's biggest prison killed at least seven people on Wednesday, officials said, in the latest militant attack in the war-torn country. Another five were wounded in the blast near the facility in Kabul, which police spokesman...

The FBI is investigating an alleged scheme to pay women to accuse Russia collusion probe chief Robert Mueller of sexual harassment in a bid to discredit him, Mueller's office said Tuesday. The scheme was uncovered after one woman who said she worked for Mueller decades ago told several...

The UN rights chief called Tuesday for "international experts" to help investigate the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and called on Riyadh to reveal the whereabouts of his body. "For an investigation to be carried out free of any appearance of political...

The Turkish fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called on U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders to ensure that his death in Istanbul is not covered up, while Saudi Arabia’s top prosecutor on Tuesday visited the Saudi Consulate where officials from his government killed the...