Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 12, 2018

Rights activists and friends of Jamal Khashoggi hold placards during a protest outside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters

Martin Chulov in Istanbul, Patrick Wintour and Bethan McKernan, The Guardian: Saudi isolation grows over Khashoggi disappearance

Business elites withdraw from summit as Turkish officials claim to have consulate tapes

Saudi Arabia has found itself further isolated over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi after the business world turned its back on a high-profile investment conference in the kingdom and US officials claimed audio and video recordings had captured the moment the journalist was murdered in Istanbul.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 12, 2018

How Khashoggi’s disappearance could change Middle East politics -- Maysam Behravesh, Reuters

What Trump Can Do About Saudi Arabia -- Eli Lake, Bloomberg View

Why All the Outrage over Israel’s Nation-State Law? -- Moshe Koppel and Eugene Kontorovich, Mosaic

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi dashes hopes for press freedom in the country -- Holly Robertson, ABC News Online

Does Modi Have a Pakistan Policy? -- Shashi Tharoor, Project Syndicate

US, Philippines tacitly realign against China -- Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times

South Africans want foreign passports as a 'plan B' -- Martina Schwikowski, DW

Ukraine's Orthodox Church is now independent of Russia -- Andrew Simmons, Al Jazeera

How America Can Repair Its Damaged Relationship with Russia -- Nikolas K. Gvosdev, National Interest

Is a Far-Right Wave Building in Latin America, Beginning in Brazil? -- Frida Ghitis, WPR

Brazil’s rotten election -- Jorge C Carrasco, CapX

From Brazil to Bosnia, politics of confrontation -- John Lloyd, Reuters

A New Powell Doctrine at the Federal Reserve -- Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest

Nikki in 2020: Don’t rule it out -- Dov S. Zakheim, The Hill

Are astronauts stuck on the ISS? A few questions and answers -- Conor Dillon, DW

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