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Jamal Khasoggi's death

  The article I chose is from CNN and it is about the prominent case of the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi, 59, is a Saudi journalist who was at one point an adviser to some elite officials in Saudi Arabia, but then upon Prince Muhammad bin Salman rise to absolute power in Saudi Arabia, turned against the Saudi government and criticised Prince Muhammad’s tactics and strategies in handling certain issues. He left the country in 2017 and, resided in Virginia where he wrote for the Washington post. Khashoggi was critical of the new Saudi approach to many aspects of the political life in Saudi Arabia. On October 2, he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain some marital papers and since then have disappeared with speculations rising that he was killed by the hands of a Saudi team associated with Prince Muhammad Bin Salman. The article discusses the two versions presented to the international authority from both the Turkish and the Saudi sides...