World News at a Glance

CIA Says Crown Prince Authorized Killing of Saudi Dissident

The CIA has concluded the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to U.S. officials. The CIA has made the assessment based on the crown prince’s total control of the Saudi Arabia and buttressed its conclusion with intercepts of the crown prince’s calls in the days before the killing, and calls by the kill team to a senior aide to the crown prince. Officials cautioned that U.S. and Turkish intelligence agencies still do not have direct evidence linking Prince Mohammed to the assassination in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, just that he was trying to find ways to lure Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia.

In Turkey, Mourning a Dissident While Curbing Dissent

Friends and supporters of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi held funeral prayers over an empty marble slab at one of Istanbul’s holiest mosques Friday, declaring him a martyr and vowing to unmask those behind his killing in the Saudi Consulate. Meanwhile, police made a new round of arrests in a crackdown that has led to the detention of more than 100,000 people and the suppression of dissent in Turkey. Two prominent university professors were among at least 12 people charged with trying to overthrow the government for their participation in the Taksim Square democracy protests in 2013.

Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide

Many of the foot soldiers for the Khmer Rouge remain in Cambodia’s remote reaches, each with a chronicle of the horror-soaked years in which Pol Pot and his communist disciples turned the country into a deadly laboratory for agrarian totalitarianism. On Friday — four decades after a total of at least 1.7 million people, a fifth of Cambodia’s population, were culled by execution, overwork, disease and famine — an international tribunal for the first time declared that the Khmer Rouge committed genocide against the Muslim Cham minority and ethnic Vietnamese. The panel also issued guilty verdicts against the two most senior surviving members of the regime, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, now 92 and 87 respectively.

Netanyahu Navigates Fury Over Gaza Cease-Fire

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has survived corruption investigations and the threat of bribery charges without much damage to his standing. But his government teetered on the edge of collapse Friday as Netanyahu’s coalition partners pressed for new elections over his handling of Gaza. The call for new elections intensified after Netanyahu rebuffed a request by the hawkish leader of the Jewish Home party, Naftali Bennett, for the defense minister’s post, which opened this week with the resignation of the hard-liner Avigdor Lieberman. Bennett’s party had threatened to leave if he was not given the job.

As Brexit Options Dwindle, New Momentum for a 2nd Referendum

In selling her plan for Britain to quit the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday told lawmakers there are two alternatives. “We can choose to leave with no deal,” she said, or “We can risk no Brexit at all.” For those who see stopping Brexit as a prize, not a risk, that admission was some rare good news — a sign that Britain could be on course to reverse its biggest and, to them, most disastrous, decision in four decades. And that would almost certainly rest on holding a second referendum to overturn the 2016 decision to leave the union.

British Austerity Is ‘Inflicting Unnecessary Misery,’ U.N. Poverty Expert Says

The British government’s policies of austerity are directly linked to a rise in poverty in the United Kingdom, a United Nations expert said in a scathing report Friday. Philip Alston, the U.N. special rapporteur for extreme poverty and human rights, concluded that efforts by the Conservative government to pare state spending were “inflicting unnecessary misery in one of the richest countries in the world.” Since 2010, the Conservative government has announced more than 30 billion pounds (nearly $40 billion) in cuts to welfare payments, housing subsidies and social services, and the British leadership is in “a state of denial” about the devastation its policies have wrought, Alston said.

Sri Lankan Leaders Dodge Chairs and Chile Powder

Lawmakers hurled chairs, thick books and stinging chile powder at one another as violence and chaos erupted again on the floor of Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Friday. At least four lawmakers and several police officers were injured. The trouble began when lawmakers allied to Mahinda Rajapaksa, a former president who, in a contentious move, was appointed prime minister last month, arrived in the chamber early and occupied the speaker’s chair. The lawmakers staged mock sessions. They also blocked the mace, a gold-tipped ebony staff that is the symbol of authority, from being brought into the chamber to begin the session.