Rights activists and friends of Jamal Khashoggi hold placards during a protest outside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters
Martin Chulov in Istanbul, Patrick Wintour and Bethan McKernan, The Guardian: Saudi isolation grows over Khashoggi disappearance
Business elites withdraw from summit as Turkish officials claim to have consulate tapes
Saudi Arabia has found itself further isolated over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi after the business world turned its back on a high-profile investment conference in the kingdom and US officials claimed audio and video recordings had captured the moment the journalist was murdered in Istanbul.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 12, 2018
How Khashoggi’s disappearance could change Middle East politics -- Maysam Behravesh, Reuters
What Trump Can Do About Saudi Arabia -- Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Why All the Outrage over Israel’s Nation-State Law? -- Moshe Koppel and Eugene Kontorovich,
Mosaic
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi dashes hopes for press freedom in the country -- Holly Robertson, ABC News Online
Does Modi Have a Pakistan Policy? -- Shashi Tharoor, Project Syndicate
US, Philippines tacitly realign against China -- Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times
South Africans want foreign passports as a 'plan B' -- Martina Schwikowski, DW
Ukraine's Orthodox Church is now independent of Russia -- Andrew Simmons, Al Jazeera
How America Can Repair Its Damaged Relationship with Russia -- Nikolas K. Gvosdev, National Interest
Is a Far-Right Wave Building in Latin America, Beginning in Brazil? -- Frida Ghitis, WPR
Brazil’s rotten election -- Jorge C Carrasco, CapX
From Brazil to Bosnia, politics of confrontation -- John Lloyd, Reuters
A New Powell Doctrine at the Federal Reserve -- Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest
Nikki in 2020: Don’t rule it out -- Dov S. Zakheim, The Hill
Are astronauts stuck on the ISS? A few questions and answers -- Conor Dillon, DW
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi dashes hopes for press freedom in the country -- Holly Robertson, ABC News Online
Does Modi Have a Pakistan Policy? -- Shashi Tharoor, Project Syndicate
US, Philippines tacitly realign against China -- Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times
South Africans want foreign passports as a 'plan B' -- Martina Schwikowski, DW
Ukraine's Orthodox Church is now independent of Russia -- Andrew Simmons, Al Jazeera
How America Can Repair Its Damaged Relationship with Russia -- Nikolas K. Gvosdev, National Interest
Is a Far-Right Wave Building in Latin America, Beginning in Brazil? -- Frida Ghitis, WPR
Brazil’s rotten election -- Jorge C Carrasco, CapX
From Brazil to Bosnia, politics of confrontation -- John Lloyd, Reuters
A New Powell Doctrine at the Federal Reserve -- Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest
Nikki in 2020: Don’t rule it out -- Dov S. Zakheim, The Hill
Are astronauts stuck on the ISS? A few questions and answers -- Conor Dillon, DW
