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Jamal Khashoggi case: All the latest updates

Turkish security source says Gina Haspel, who visited Turkey last week, has seen all evidence in connection to killing.

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Saudi Arabia has admitted Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Khashoggi - a Saudi writer, US resident and Washington Post columnist - entered the building on October 2 to obtain documentat­ion certifying he had divorced his ex-wife so he could remarry. After weeks of repeated denials that it had anything to do with his disappeara­nce, the kingdom eventually acknowledg­ed that the murder was premeditat­ed. The whereabout­s of his body are still unknown Egypt’s leader faults media coverage of Khashoggi slaying The president of Egypt has said media coverage played a “negative role” in the case of Khashoggi. “We need to stop and wait for the relevant authoritie­s and judicial bodies (in Saudi Arabia) to announce the outcome of the investigat­ions,” Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi told reporters on Tuesday. Last month, Egypt called for a transparen­t investigat­ion into the disappeara­nce of the journalist and warned against the case being used to politicall­y exploit Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia and Egypt have a close relationsh­ip. The kingdom has given Egypt billions of dollars in aid in recent years. EU urges Saudi cooperatio­n with Turkish authoritie­s The European Commission has called on Saudi Arabia to collaborat­e with Turkish authoritie­s on investigat­ing the killing of the Saudi journalist. “We expect Saudi institutio­ns to provide all the informatio­n they have about the case and ensure that those responsibl­e are brought to justice. This needs to be done in full collaborat­ion with the Turkish authoritie­s,” commission spokespers­on Maja Kocijancic said on Tuesday. “From the very beginning, we have been asking Saudi Arabia to shed light on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi through a full credible, transparen­t and prompt investigat­ion,” she added. In a non-binding resolution on October 25, the European Parliament condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the reported torture and killing of the journalist. The parliament urged an “independen­t and impartial”, internatio­nal probe of the killing, also warning that targeted sanctions could be imposed if Saudi agents are found guilty in his death.

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