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Jamal Khashoggi: How Pakistan ‘ignored’ journalist’s murder to secure Saudi loan

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While many pulled out of the ongoing Saudi investment summit citing the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Pakistani PM Imran Khan chose to rub shoulders with the Saudis to seal a bailout package. Social media reacts.

Nazism was ‘left-wing ideology’ remark by British MEP Syed Kamall sparks uproar

Some people should consult history experts or read a D@mn book before making really stupid remarks – apologies not accepted! A leading British conservative has told European lawmakers that the Nazis believed in a “strain of socialism.” Many members of social democratic and socialist parties were imprisoned or killed by the Nazi party.

European parties urged to agree Israel boycott tactics are antisemitic

So if you were Irish and in 1920s British controlled Ireland and boycotted British goods or American and dumping tea in Boston Harbor you would be racist-anti-British?

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Convention backed by Israeli government to propose red lines for prospective MEPs

A conference in Brussels backed by the Israeli government is to push for all European political parties to sign up to “red lines” that declare boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) tactics to be “fundamentally antisemitic”.

The two-day convention, attended by Israel’s minister of Jerusalem affairs, Ze’ev Elkin, will propose a text for prospective MEPs and political parties to sign up to before European elections in May next year.

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UK police recruited teenager to spy on her pimp

You would think that thy might get her into care instead of exploiting her just like her pimp! Lowlife coppers.

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Lords debate reveals sexually exploited girl ended up becoming accessory to murder

A teenage girl who was being sexually exploited was enlisted by police to collect information about her pimp, which led to her becoming an accessory to murder, a member of the House of Lords has revealed.

In a Lords debate on the use of child spies, peers said 14 minors had been recruited since 2015. Sally Hamwee revealed the case of the 17-year-old, who was “on the edge of care”, and was one of a group of girls the suspect – whom “she thought of as her boyfriend” – had been selling for sex.

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Scarlett Johansson reportedly turned down film funding from Saudi prince

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Actor vetoed money from Mohammed bin Salman for a biopic in which she will play photojournalist Lynsey Addario

Scarlett Johansson reportedly vetoed funding from the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, for her next film.

The actor is set to play the Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario in a biopic directed by Ridley Scott, but when she found out the initial set of funders included Bin Salman, she rejected his involvement.

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Saudi crown prince says justice will prevail in Khashoggi case – video

ROTFLMAO – he can get away with lying and shoving his own killers under the bus. If you can believe this, you can believe that the Donald’s grandparents were not illegal immigrants.

Mohammed bin Salman breaks his public silence over the murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying the killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul was a ‘heinous crime that cannot be justified’. Speaking at a business conference in Riyadh, the prince says all culprits will be punished, and Saudi Arabia and Turkey will work together to that end

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