Turkey said Tuesday it will search the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul for a journalist who went missing after visiting there last week. Turkish investigators told reporters over the weekend they believe officials there killed Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a “preplanned murder.” Saudi Arabia has denied the allegation. Khashoggi, a Saudi national living in self-imposed exile in Washington, D.C., disappeared last Tuesday after entering the consulate to obtain documents for marriage to his Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz.

ISRAEL: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly Thursday, using maps and a photo to accuse the Islamic regime in Iran of operating a “secret atomic warehouse” in violation of its nuclear agreement involving UN members and its inspection agency. Netanyahu said the facility houses 300 tons of nuclear equipment as part of a secret nuclear weapons program.

President Donald Trump last week weighed in on South Africa’s land reform, drawing renewed international attention to a racially divisive issue in the post-apartheid nation. The government’s plan to amend the constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation could stir up unrest and harm the country’s economy.

TURKEY is the third largest market for U.S. cotton farmers, who face potentially drastic losses over U.S. sanctions. The White House sanctions strategy to release Andrew Brunson has failed in part, argue two experts, because it singles out the American pastor.

IRAQ: Over the weekend, Iraq media reported that more than 100 ISIS vehicles were seen between Kirkuk and Mosul, just after the Pentagon warned on Friday that ISIS “is well-positioned to rebuild and work on enabling its physical caliphate to reemerge.”

At least 50 people died in an airstrike Thursday by the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition in the rebel-controlled region of Yemen, according to local media. The International Committee of the Red Cross reported that the strike hit a civilian bus in the northern Saada governorate and at least 29 children were among the dead. Approximately 77 people were injured, reported Yemen’s rebel Al Masirah television. Coalition spokesman Col.

EGYPT: Coptic Orthodox Bishop Epiphanius was found dead Sunday morning, lying in a pool of blood and apparently murdered in a corridor of the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Wadi El Natrun, where he served as abbot.