KHASHOGGI: G20 leaders likely to avoid shaking hands with Saudi Crown Prince

Embattled Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has arrived in Buenos Aires to attend the G20 summit, with Human Rights Watch asking Argentina to use the war crimes clause in its constitution to investigate any involvement by the Crown Prince in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Reports say World leaders at the upcoming G20 summit may refuse to shake hands with Saudi prince, amid outcry over Khashoggi’s killing and crimes against humanity in Yemen.

The gruesome murder of the pen pusher at Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul six weeks ago, has strained Saudi’s ties with the West and battered Prince Mohammed’s image abroad.

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Saudi authorities have constantly said the prince, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, had no prior knowledge of the murder which has sparked a global outcry.

In a related development, heavily armed Turkish police officers raided two villas in the city of Yalova, southeast of Istanbul, in search of the missing body Khashoggi.

Report say police dogs and drones were used in the search ordered by Istanbul prosecutor’s office with firefighting vehicles reported to be at the scene as well.

According to the prosecutor’s office, one of the villas belongs to a Saudi businessman named Mohammed Ahmed Alfaouzan.

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