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1 isn’t alone doing so at the Saudi International this week. 5 Bryson DeChambeau are all making statements with their decisions to play in the inaugural European Tour event in Saudi Arabia. They do so by choosing to play amid the still smoldering outrage over the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. concluded Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing. Four of the top five players in the Official World Golf Ranking are helping to move golf’s new relationship with the crown prince forward. When does playing golf become playing politics? Of course, Amnesty International’s issues with Saudi Arabia go beyond Khashoggi’s murder. Maybe the tour pros in Saudi Arabia can take solace knowing they aren’t acting much differently than most corporate titans did when mixing with the Saudi delegation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week. The Washington Post concluded the same. “It is not the Saudi Arabian people who ordered Khashoggi murdered,” Kenneth Roth, head of the Human Rights Watch, told France’s AFP during the World Economic Forum last week.

Surveillance footage shows Saudi operative in Jamal Khashoggi's clothes after he was killed, Turkish source says. #CNN #News

Scorn and disbelief at Saudi Arabia’s official explanation of the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi mounted over the weekend, despite US president Donald Trump dubbing Riyadh’s belated confession that he had died “credible”. “Saudi Arabia’s changing stories on Khashoggi’s murder is getting old,” he wrote on Twitter. It claimed the 59-year-old had got into a fight with 15 officials sent to bring him back to Saudi Arabia by force, including several members of the security forces. They have provided details of 15 men who arrived in Istanbul from Riyadh on private jets owned by the Saudi royal family on the day of Khashoggi’s death, who included members of crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s security staff and a well-known forensics expert. “The US administration must make its own independent, credible determination of responsibility for Khashoggi’s murder under the Global Magnitsky investigation.” Jamal Khashoggi's death: what will Saudi Arabia do next? No one is convinced by the Saudi story of a ‘fistfight’ that went wrong Read more The statements said 18 men had been arrested in connection with the “cover-up” and two senior officials, who were also close confidantes of the crown prince, had been sacked. Saudi Arabia’s allies in the region expressed support for the explanation. He called for “a prompt, thorough and transparent investigation into the circumstances of Khashoggi‘s death and full accountability for those responsible”. The human rights group Amnesty International questioned the Saudi account and the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel Simon, derided Riyadh’s account as “ridiculous”. Both called for an impartial international investigation.

MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)—The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is “absolutely furious” at the Saudi royal family for using his puppet without first obtaining his permission, an aide to Putin confirmed on Wednesday. According to the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Russian President has been “seething with anger” in recent days as he has observed the Saudis using his favorite puppet as if it were their own. “At one point, Putin was watching the news and saw his puppet behaving in the kind of scraping, subservient manner toward the Saudis that he had previously reserved for him,” the aide said. “He pulled the TV out of the wall and hurled it across the room.” According to diplomatic sources, the Saudis have reached out to Russia in the hopes of striking some sort of puppet-sharing agreement, but the enraged Russian President has refused to entertain such overtures. “He’s my tiny puppet, and only I can make him dance,” Putin reportedly snapped.