![Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed on October 2, 2018, after he went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to retrieve documents for his marriage [File: AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/image-3.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
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![UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet [File: Denis Balibouse/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b3fedb30c1ce4e2faf82630d00534a74_18.jpeg?resize=120%2C80)
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View of the El Turi jail, in the city of Cuenca. More than 79 inmates died in a series of riots that occurred in three prisons in various cities in Ecuador, the national police confirmed. [Robert Puglla/EPA]
![A woman waits outside a prison in Guayaquil where inmates were killed during a riot that the government described as a concerted action by criminal organisations. [Vicente Gaibor del Pino/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-24T044523Z_202265368_RC2SYL9B11CV_RTRMADP_3_ECUADOR-PRISONS-1.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
A woman waits outside a prison in Guayaquil where inmates were killed during a riot that the government described as a concerted action by criminal organisations. [Vicente Gaibor del Pino/Reuters]
![Soldiers are deployed outside the prison in Guayaquil. [Jose Sánchez Lindao/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/000_93P7EE.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Soldiers are deployed outside the prison in Guayaquil. [Jose Sánchez Lindao/AFP]
![A policeman talks with relatives of the deceased prisoners outside the Zone 6 Forensic Centre in Cuenca, where they wait to receive the bodies. [Fernando Machado/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/000_93Q3KB.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
A policeman talks with relatives of the deceased prisoners outside the Zone 6 Forensic Centre in Cuenca, where they wait to receive the bodies. [Fernando Machado/AFP]
A relative of a deceased prisoner cries outside the Zone 6 Forensic Centre. [Fernando Machado/AFP
![Coffins outside the offices of the Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science institute in Guayaquil, as the bodies of several inmates who died after a prison riot are brought in. [Vicente Gaibor del Pino/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-24T222811Z_1291337119_RC2AZL90TCW1_RTRMADP_3_ECUADOR-PRISONS.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Coffins outside the offices of the Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science institute in Guayaquil, as the bodies of several inmates who died after a prison riot are brought in. [Vicente Gaibor del Pino/Reuters]
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People wait outside the offices of the Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science Institute in Guayaquil. [Vicente Gaibor del Pino/Reuters]
![Relatives of killed inmates mourn outside the prison in Guayaquil. [Jose Sánchez Lindao/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/000_93P7MH.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Relatives of killed inmates mourn outside the prison in Guayaquil. [Jose Sánchez Lindao/AFP]
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Condemnation as coughing Tanzanian minister gives news conference
Video of Finance Minister Philip Mpango, maskless and in a coughing fit, has been widely condemned.
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Australia’s Qantas delays target date for international flights
Airline now says it is aiming to resume international flights in October, as it reported a 75 percent plunge in revenue.
![Qantas CEO Alan Joyce says the airline was forecasting international capacity would be only 40 percent of pre-COVID levels in the 2022 financial year [File: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/526cdfb556c04e1b823ce4857ef59d84_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
US transport department faults aviation body over Boeing 737 MAX
In new report, US Transportation Department says ‘much work remains’ in fixing how aviation body certifies new planes.
![Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft re-entered US commercial service in December after the Federal Aviation Administration approved changes the planemaker made to an automated flight-control system implicated in the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia [File: Mike Siegel/Pool via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-09-30T224205Z_710853965_RC2A9J9N6J2G_RTRMADP_3_BOEING-737MAX.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
‘Deadly sea crossings’: 41 migrants drown in the Mediterranean
Shipwreck was latest along central Mediterranean route where 118 migrants died this year and over 17,000 since 2014.
![Since 2014, more than 20,000 migrants and refugees have died at sea while trying to reach Europe from Africa [File: Faras Ghani/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/3dd75443d3dd40feab0c17ad98aad623_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Turkey jails pilots, airline official over Ghosn escape
Former Nissan chief was flown from Osaka to Istanbul on a private plane and transferred onto another plane to Beirut.
![Ghosn, who was arrested in Tokyo on financial misconduct allegations in 2018, skipped bail while awaiting trial [File: Kyodo via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/4e376cf8358548b9b63f3123f9f869eb_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Taliban blames Kabul, Washington for not abiding by Doha deal
Taliban accuses Afghan government and the US of not honouring the agreement signed last year.
![Last week, the Taliban issued an 'open letter' calling on Washington to pull out the troops [File: Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/c03b699cda5242cbbbe2aa516d156530_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)