Saudi Arabia says Khashoggi case will be tried in Saudi court

Tried? ROTFLMAO!

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As German Chancellor Angela Merkel joins those condemning the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia’s Justice Minister says the dissident journalist died on Saudi sovereign territory, in the country’s consulate in Turkey, making it a matter for Saudi courts.

Trump says US will withdraw from nuclear arms treaty with Russia

Only doing what he has to to keep his boss happy and records of his money laundering under wraps

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Experts warn of ‘most severe crisis in nuclear arms control since the 1980s’ as Trump confirms US will leave INF agreement

Donald Trump has confirmed the US will leave an arms control treaty with Russia dating from the cold war that has kept nuclear missiles out of Europe for three decades.

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Miss Marple would demolish in minutes the Saudi story of a fistfight gone wrong | Simon Tisdall | World news | The Guardian

Why did Bin Salman and his officials wait almost two weeks before admitting Khashoggi was dead, if his killing was not deliberate? Why all those staunch denials of involvement and the repeated, on-the-record assertions that Khashoggi had left the consulate unscathed, if they knew all along that he had died? Why has Khashoggi’s body disappeared? If his death was an unintended accident, why was an ambulance not called and the police informed? The Saudi statements offer no clue as to where Khashoggi’s remains may be now. Turkish assertions that he was dismembered, smuggled out of the building in suitcases and buried in a forest near Istanbul will now be more widely accepted.

Source: Miss Marple would demolish in minutes the Saudi story of a fistfight gone wrong | Simon Tisdall | World news | The Guardian

People’s Vote march: thousands set to demand second referendum – live

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More than 100,000 people are expected to gather in London for what organisers hope will be the most important anti-Brexit protest since the referendum

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Four packed coaches set off at 9am from Birmingham, which voted marginally in favour of Brexit in 2016, to carry people to the march in London.

At 12.30pm they arrived on Park Lane and the passengers, kitted out with EU flags, t-shirts, banners, badges and whistles, immediately swarmed towards the crowd as it inched eastwards towards Westminster.

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Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, will address the crowd later today.

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan says “politicians can’t be trusted to make the right decision” and calls for the British public to have the final say on the Brexit deal

Read more on the #PeoplesVote march taking place in London today here: https://t.co/yY6k1lkB39 pic.twitter.com/bRLINdhNAV

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State High Court Blocks Rick Scott’s Planned Court-Packing Power Grab

State High Court Blocks Rick Scott’s Planned Court-Packing Power Grab:

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“The Florida state Supreme Court said Monday that Gov. Rick Scott ® will not be allowed to appoint three new justices to the court on the morning he steps down as governor, after voting rights groups sued him over his plans to replace the three judges whose terms will come to an end at midnight before Scott’s successor is sworn in.

“’The governor who is elected in the November 2018 general election has the sole authority to fill the vacancies that will be created by the mandatory retirement of Justices Barbara J. Pariente, R. Fred Lewis, and Peggy A. Quince,’ the state Supreme Court said, ‘provided the justices do not leave prior to the expiration of their terms at midnight between January 7 and January 8, 2019, and provided that the governor takes office immediately upon the beginning of his term.’

“The retiring justices, who are stepping down due to mandatory age limits, are all left-leaning, according to Slate. In attempting a power grab that would have let him lock in a right-leaning majority for years regardless the winner of the 2018 governor’s race, Scott was trying to exploit a loophole in that their terms expired at midnight, January 8, but his successor wouldn’t be sworn in until that day, usually at around noon.”