Government threat against critics living abroad is seriously misguided and likely to harm its image even more

US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan discuss how to respond to the killing last month of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, a White House official says.

Saudi Arabia sends a two-man "clean-up team" to erase evidence of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing a week after he disappears at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a Turkish official says, calling it a sign top Saudi officials knew of the crime.