Turkey pledges accountability in Saudi probe; critics wonder
Turkey has pledged to investigate the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was allegedly killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Although Turkey has held Saudi Arabia accountable in the journalist’s disappearance, critics say Turkey has issues of its own with stifling freedom of expression.
Manhunt in Crimea for possible accomplice in school attack
A shooting at a Crimea vocational school Oct. 17 left 20 dead and more than 50 injured. Crimea head Sergei Aksyonov told reporters it’s possible the 18-year-old attacker, who killed himself following the shooting, had an accomplice.
Putin: Russia would only use its nuclear arms in retaliation
President Vladimir Putin said Oct. 18 Russia would only use its nuclear weapons in retaliation against a missile attack. The comment came at a policy forum.
Astronomers discover massive ‘proto-supercluster’ in early universe
Astronomers discover most massive structure in the early universe. So-called
'proto-supercluster' could contain thousands of galaxies. https://t.co/EI6D2HBEEP— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) October 17, 2018
A team of astronomers found the most massive structure ever discovered in the early universe, a proto-supercluster now called Hyperion. The structure, referred to as a proto-supercluster because it is still developing, is composed of thousands of galaxies and weighs more than one million billion times the weight of our sun.
