...The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which follows a spate of violence ahead of parliamentary elections. The Wall Street Journal reported that the 1.3 million residents of Ghazni province “won’t go to the polls because the country’s security forces can’t protect polling stations there.” They also reported that “after planning to operate 7,384 polling places nationwide, authorities said this week only 5,074 would be open, a drop of almost one-third.”
We’ll also update you on a story we’ve been covering all week. Journalist Jamal Khashoggi is feared dead after gory details were leaked by the Turkish government about audio recordings that tracked his death. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flew to Ankara, Turkey this week to investigate the journalist’s death, as Khashoggi lived in Virginia and worked for The Washington Post.
The Post published his likely-final column on Thursday. Here’s a short excerpt. The topic? Press freedom.
Brexit talks are grinding on in Brussels, led by United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May and European Union Council President Donald Tusk. The EU said on Thursday that it was willing to have a longer post-Brexit transition period, because a deal has not yet been made. The U.K. is scheduled to leave the EU on March 29.
And if you need to…relax, just head north of the border. Canada officially legalized marijuana this week. Now it doesn’t even need to be 420 for Canadians to blaze it.
Interview:
https://the1a.org/shows/2018-10-19/friday-news-roundup-international
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