20 CHARGED OVER KHASHOGGI MURDER

ISTANBUL: Turkey has charged 20 suspects including two former aides to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Prosecutors accuse Saudi Arabia’s deputy intelligence chief Ahmed alAssiri and the royal court’s media czar Saud al-Qahtani of leading the operation and giving orders to a Saudi hit team. The Istanbul prosecutor’s office said in a statement that Assiri and Qahtani were charged with “instigating the deliberate and monstrous killing, causing torment”. – AFP