What's News: World-Wide -- WSJ
October 20 2018 - 3:02AM
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Saudi Arabia's government acknowledged for the first time
journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in
Istanbul, saying 18 Saudi citizens had been detained pending the
final results of an investigation.
Federal investigators charged a Russian national in a
wide-ranging conspiracy designed to undermine U.S. elections,
including next month's midterms.
Mueller's investigation is scrutinizing how a collection of
activists and pundits may have intersected with WikiLeaks.
Former Trump campaign chairman Manafort will be sentenced on
tax- and bank-fraud charges on Feb. 8.
A caravan of several thousand Honduran migrants poured over the
Mexican border, ignoring Mexico's offer to let smaller groups of
the caravan in each day.
Voting in Afghan parliamentary elections in Kandahar was
postponed for a week after the assassination Thursday of the
province's police chief.
China's export engine appears set to cool amid slowing economic
growth and the specter of U.S. tariffs.
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October 20, 2018 02:47 ET (06:47 GMT)
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