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Donald Trump is claiming there would be "severe punishment" if Saudi Arabia are found to be responsible for killing missing Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.  But he's ruling out canceling a controversial arms deal with Saudi Arabia.  Purported to be worth more than US$100 Billion, the Saudis have not followed through with their end of it and have only purchased around US$14 Billion so far.  Trump claims that if the US backs out, the Saudis will just go to Russia or China to buy their war kit.  The US is also still planning to attend a business conference in Saudi Arabia, despite major media and financial corporations pulling out over the disappearance of Khashoggi, who was vocal critic of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. 

A Turkish newspaper says that Mr. Khashoggi might have recorded his own murder when he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, never to be seen again.  How this might have happened is not clear and has been disputed by other sources, but the Turks say that Khashoggi wore an Apple Watch inside the consulate; it could have been linked to his iPhone outside via bluetooth.  Or, possibly he had another device on him that was linked to the outside world through the consulate's own WiFi.  Turkish investigators reportedly have audio and video evidence suggesting that a Saudi hit team was waiting for him inside, which murdered and dismembered him.  Saudi Arabia has unequivocally denied any murder has taken place and claims Khashoggi wrapped up his business and left the consulate as usual.

At least seven climbers are dead after a powerful storm swept through the base camp on Nepal's Gurja Himal mountain.  Two more people are missing.  Several of the dead climbers were from South Korea.  The weather was too awful to attempt to land rescue choppers at base camp,and nearby villagers had to climb up to retrieve the bodies and assess the situation.  Police aren't likely to get to base camp until later today.

A car crashed into a truck in northern Greece killing eleven people.  Ten are suspected immigrants who crossed over from Turkey, and the driver is a suspected people smuggler.  The car was speeding from the Turkish border to Thessaloniki when it crossed into opposing traffic.

Indonesian officials say at least 27 people are dead after torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on Sumatra.  Many of the dead are school children.

Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim won a landslide in his by-election for the Port Dickson parliament seat; it secures another step in his political comeback and widely expected eventual takeover from Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. 

Tens of thousands of Germans rallied in Berlin against racism and nationalism, amid rising concerns about the country's increasingly boisterous far right.  A coalition of pro-refugee, gay rights, Muslim organizations, and other groups marched under the slogan "solidarity instead of exclusion - for an open and free society".  But that's cosmopolitan Berlin.  Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative sister party the CSU is expected to suffer humiliating losses in Sunday's Bavarian state election, while the Greens and the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) are looking for great gains.  The AfD was condemned (again) for a bit on its website trying to recruit students to inform on teachers who share political views the party disagrees with.  Justice minister Katarina Barley said the attempt to recruit kids and collegians to rat out their own instructors was a "method of dictators" and an attempt to limit democracy.

Pope Francis lowered the boom on two more church officials in Chile, defrocking the retired bishops over their links to that country's clergy sex abuse scandal.  The decisions against Francisco Jose Cox Huneeus, archbishop emeritus of La Serena, and Marco Antonio Ordenes Fernandez, archbishop emeritus of Iquique, cannot be appealed.  The Vatican announced the disciplinary measures as the Pope met with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera at the Vatican. 

On Sunday, the Pope will canonize seven new saints in the Roman Catholic Church that observers say reflect Francis' desire to move the church out of marble palaces and closer to the people.  The list includes his predecessor, the liberal Pope Paul VI who oversaw much of the church's post-Vatican II reformations in the 1960s and 1970s.  Paul VI reached out to Orthodox Christians and fiercely condemned the US war in Vietnam before the United Nations; he also reaffirmed the church's opposition to artificial contraception.  Another new saint is El Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed the country's military dictatorship, only to be gunned down by a right-wing death squad while holding mass in a hospital chapel.  His funeral was attended by 100,000 people, but effectively boycotted by conservative Pope John Paul II; critics say JPII and Pope Benedict XVI stalled Romero's canonization.