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Saudi Arabia

Prosecutor seeks death penalty as trials open

Public Prosecution demanded capital punishment on Thursday against five out of 11 suspects over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Press Agency reported. The Saudi attorney general highlighted in a statement that the demand was made during the first hearing of the case at the criminal court held in Riyadh and all 11 suspects attended the hearing with their lawyers. The attorney general also revealed that the Public Prosecution has waited until now to get information about the case from its Turkish counterpart.

Australia

One dead in Sydney Scientology stabbing

One man died of stab wounds and another was injured on Thursday, after an attack at a Scientology center in Sydney. Police said a teenager was arrested after two men were allegedly stabbed at the center in the north of the city. The pair were rushed to the hospital and one man in his 20s later died. The other is said to be in stable condition with a minor injury. It is not clear whether the two victims were members of the Church of Scientology, and whether the attack happened in the center or outside.

United Kingdom

Two arrested in migrant Channel crossings

The National Crime Agency said late on Wednesday that a 33-year-old Iranian citizen and a 24-year-old British man were arrested in Manchester. The men are being questioned but have not been charged or identified. They are suspected of smuggling migrants across the English Channel in small boats. The arrests are the first since Britain's Home Secretary Sajid Javid declared a rise in migrant crossings to be a "major incident". He is considering asking the Royal Navy to help patrol the Channel.

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