US State Dept is defending immunity granted to Saudi Crown Prince. Declassified report had alleged he 'directly approved' killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
NSO Group, a cyber-surveillance company based in Israel, developed and sells the spyware Pegasus that was allegedly used to try and snoop on several prominent people across the world.
The White House Friday released a report the Trump administration had withheld, showing that US intelligence believed the crown prince was behind Khashoggi’s October 2018 murder.
State Department spokesman Ned Price suggested US is looking at ways to hold the perpetrators responsible for their actions, could cut back arms sales to Saudi, impose sanctions.
UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial executions Agnès S. Callamard said she relied on NGOs and pro-bono support while investigating the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The report on who was responsible for Saudi-insider-turned critic Jamal Khashoggi’s murder could be embarrassing for Crown Prince Salman & is likely to strain Saudi-US ties.
Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian dissident and Washington Post columnist, was killed and dismembered in 2018 by Saudi agents inside the nation’s consulate in Istanbul.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and 28 other Saudis have been named in the seven-count complaint, filed in the District of Columbia federal court.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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