{"id":63485,"date":"2018-10-20T03:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T01:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/20\/saudi-arabia-admits-khashoggi-killed-but-claims-he-died-in-fist-fight\/"},"modified":"2018-10-20T03:26:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T01:26:56","slug":"saudi-arabia-admits-khashoggi-killed-but-claims-he-died-in-fist-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=63485","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi killed but claims he died in &#039;fist-fight&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump calls announcement \u2018credible\u2019 while others express skepticism at Riyadh\u2019s new explanationJamal Khashoggi: Trump says Saudi explanation \u2018credible\u2019 \u2013 live updatesSaudi Arabia has admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared after visiting the country\u2019s consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, is dead. Riyadh claimed that he was killed in a \u201cfist-fight\u201d with Saudi officials.The Saudi regime also announced a purge of senior officials including Saud al-Qahtani, an influential adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and General Ahmed al-Asiri, a senior intelligence official. Both men have been fired. Eighteen Saudi nationals were said to have been arrested. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/19\/jamal-khashoggi-dead-saudi-arabian-state-television-confirms\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi killed but claims he died in &#039;fist-fight&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump calls announcement \u2018credible\u2019 while others express skepticism at Riyadh\u2019s new explanationJamal Khashoggi: Trump says Saudi explanation \u2018credible\u2019 \u2013 live updatesSaudi Arabia has admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared after visiting the country\u2019s consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, is dead. Riyadh claimed that he was killed in a \u201cfist-fight\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}