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Donald Trump didn't just issue a bizarrely-worded statement saying his administration will essentially ignore the murder of US-based Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi to protect the US financial relationship with Saudi Arabia; he repeated the Saudi government's slur claiming Khashoggi was an "enemy of the state" and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Neither is true - and even if it were, the Muslim Brotherhood is not banned in the US nor Europe.  Critics - of which there are plenty on both sides of American politics, plus rights groups and advocates for the free press - are concerned that Trump has given despots a green light to murder journalists with impunity, even those with US Green Cards.

The US intelligence community has reportedly already determined that crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman himself ordered the 2 October murder of Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, essentially bolstering the conclusions of Turkish investigators who actually have audio and video evidence to back up that assumption.  But Trump's statement read: "Maybe he did, maybe he didn't!"  Yes, with the childish exclamation point.  US network news reporters were flabbergasted both by the wording of the official White House statement, which lacked any resemblance to past policy statements by any president, and by the fact that Trump made up his mind before the US Intelligence community submitted its formal report to the administration.

Mr. Khashoggi's employer The Washington Post, released its response accusing Trump of "placing personal relationships and commercial interests above American interests in his desire to continue to do business as usual with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia".  Publisher Fred Ryan further wrote, "The CIA has thoroughly investigated the murder of this innocent journalist and concluded with high confidence that it was directed by the crown prince.  If there is reason to doubt the findings of the CIA, President Trump should immediately make that evidence public."

Democrats, about to take control of the House of Representatives, are planning to investigate Ivanka Trump over reports that she repeatedly used a personal email account last year for government business.  And yes, that is the very thing that has Trump's followers chanting, "Lock her up!" at political rallies when he mentions Hillary Clinton.  An internal White House review reportedly found that Ivanka used her personal account up to 100 times to contact other Trump administration officials.  She is actually the sixth administration official to be implicated in this behavior. 

Russia has mounted a stealth campaign to control Interpol, which may come to fruition on Wednesday.   Delegates of the general assembly of The International Criminal Police Organization will vote on a new chief.  The leading candidate is Alexander Prokopchuk, a Russian police general.  Moscow managed to keep this under wraps until it had locked up enough votes among the 192 member nations.  The British human rights group Fair Trials says Russian leadership of Interpol "would not be appropriate" given its "record of violations of Interpol's rules", such as attempting to use Interpol to arrest its dissidents overseas.  But the UK was completely taken by surprise and determined that there's no point in trying to stop Russia at this point. 

It is not clear if Port Moresby is a safe place to be today, after cops and security forces stormed PNG's Parliament over back pay from the APEC summit, as MPs locked themselves in their offices for safety.  The rioting cops broke windows and generally vandalized the place, which was followed by chaos and looting in the city.  Oz's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is monitoring the situation in Port Moresby.

A suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan killed 43 people at a gathering of Islamic scholars marking the birth of the Prophet Muhammad.  At least 83 more were injured.

The gunman who killed an emergency room doctor, a medical technician, and a cop at Mercy Hospital just south of downtown Chicago had a history of domestic violence - and yet had obtained a permit to carry a concealed handgun.  The late afternoon bloodshed shocked a city that is regularly the scene of armed violence, which is usually related to street gangs and the illegal drug trade.

Despite the Tory backbench rebellion, British PM Theresa May still has her job.  Today.

France is moving to remove Carlos Ghosn as chief of Renault Motors.  Tokyo prosecutors had earlier arrested Ghosn for allegedly hiding income from the taxman and illegally using company assets for personal use at his main gig at Nissan.

AirBnb is banning listings of homes in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.  Palestinians praised the move, Israel is miffed.

Gunmen in Cameroon kidnapped twenty students at a school in the English-speaking west of the mostly-Francophone African nation.  This comes almost a fortnight after about 80 students were safely returned after being abducted from a school in the neighboring region under similar circumstances.