Prison wardens found the man, identified as Zaki Y.M. Hassan, hanged inside his solitary cell in Istanbul’s Silivri prison and launched an investigation into his death, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Turkish prosecutors.
Turkish state media said Hassan died by suicide.
Authorities in Turkey were investigating Hassan and another man in connection with Khashoggi’s killing last October at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by Saudi Arabian operatives.
The two men arrived in Turkey after Khashoggi’s Oct. 2 killing and were detained on April 15.
They confessed to spying for the United Arab Emirates.
Turkish state media said the two were collecting information about Arab nationals living in Turkey and were trying to recruit people for a surveillance network.
Prosecutors in Turkey offered no details about Hassan, his age, or his nationality.
The move follows a series of bombings on Easter Sunday that killed more than 250 people and wounded at least 500 in Sri Lankan churches and hotels.
"(President Maithripala Sirisena) has made this decision to strengthen national security as well as to not inconvenience any demographic group so as to create a peaceful and harmonious society in Sri Lanka," said the presidential statement, which was released Sunday.
The ban took effect Monday, and applies to anything covering the face, which could include burqas, niqabs and helmets or masks.
"All sorts of face covers that hinders the identification of individuals in a way that threatens national security shall be banned with effect from 29 April 2019 as per Emergency Regulations," the statement said.
"The order specifies that the base criterion for identification is the ability to see the face of an individual clearly."
A burqa is a garment worn by some Muslim women that covers the entire body, with mesh over the eyes. The niqab is a full-face veil with an opening for the eyes.
Police think the National Tawheed Jamath, a local extremist group, may be behind the Easter bombings, but ISIS has claimed responsibility. A link between the attackers and the terror group has not been proven.
The country is still on high alert a week after the bomb attacks, with warnings that more violence could be imminent.
Police have carried out a number of raids in the eastern part of the country in their search for the attackers. On Friday night, 10 civilians, including six children, were killed along with six suspected terrorists after a shootout between police and alleged militants.
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to clarify all face coverings have been banned in the country.
The move follows a series of bombings on Easter Sunday that killed more than 250 people and wounded at least 500 in Sri Lankan churches and hotels.
"(President Maithripala Sirisena) has made this decision to strengthen national security as well as to not inconvenience any demographic group so as to create a peaceful and harmonious society in Sri Lanka," said the presidential statement, which was released Sunday.
The ban took effect Monday, and applies to anything covering the face, which could include burqas, niqabs and helmets or masks.
"All sorts of face covers that hinders the identification of individuals in a way that threatens national security shall be banned with effect from 29 April 2019 as per Emergency Regulations," the statement said.
"The order specifies that the base criterion for identification is the ability to see the face of an individual clearly."
A burqa is a garment worn by some Muslim women that covers the entire body, with mesh over the eyes. The niqab is a full-face veil with an opening for the eyes.
Police think the National Tawheed Jamath, a local extremist group, may be behind the Easter bombings, but ISIS has claimed responsibility. A link between the attackers and the terror group has not been proven.
The country is still on high alert a week after the bomb attacks, with warnings that more violence could be imminent.
Police have carried out a number of raids in the eastern part of the country in their search for the attackers. On Friday night, 10 civilians, including six children, were killed along with six suspected terrorists after a shootout between police and alleged militants.
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to clarify all face coverings have been banned in the country.
Norwegian fishermen and scientists say a white whale wearing a strange harness that harassed boats in the Arctic recently may have been trained by Russia's military. Russia has acknowledged training sea mammals for special operations in the frigid Arctic, where the country has a major military base not far from the territory of key NATO member Norway.
According to Britain's The Guardian newspaper, Norwegian state broadcaster NRK reported the unusual behavior by the whale last week, and showed video of the beluga whale swimming alongside a fishing vessel and repeatedly nudging it.
"We were going to put out nets when we saw a whale swimming between the boats," NRK quoted fisherman Joar Hesten as saying. "It came over to us, and as it approached, we saw that it had some sort of harness on it."
No science project
The harness was removed from the animal by a team from the Norwegian Director of Fisheries. Jørgen Ree Wiig, from the agency, sent CBS News images and video of the whale and the harness, which has a logo on it reading, "Equipment of St. Petersburg." The canvas straps appeared slightly worn and there was visible rust on the metal screws holding the apparatus together.
"If this whale comes from Russia – and there is great reason to believe it – then it is not Russian scientists, but rather the navy that has done this," Martin Biuw of the Institute of Marine Research in Norway told NRK.
A Norwegian Director of Fisheries team member holds aloft a harness removed from a white whale encountered by Norwegian fishing boats off the country's Arctic coast.
Jørgen Ree Wiig/Norwegian Director of Fisheries
"We know that in Russia they have had domestic whales in captivity and also that some of these have apparently been released," Audun Rikardsen, a professor of marine biology at the Arctic University of Norway, told NRK according to The Guardian. "Then they often seek out boats."
But Rikardsen said he'd spoken to Russian scientists and they denied any knowledge of the harnessed whale: "They tell me that most likely is the Russian navy in Murmansk."
Whales as weapons
Russia's military has a history of trying to weaponize whales and other sea mammals.
The Guardian said the Cold War-era Soviet Union had a program to train dolphins to help detect underwater weapons and alert their military trainers. That program ran until the 1990s.
Then in 2017, Russia's TV Zvezda, which is owned by the defense ministry in Moscow, aired a report on a Russian navy program to train beluga whales, seals and dolphins for similar purposes.
A beluga whale fitted with a harness swims alongside a Norwegian fishing boat in a photo provided by the Norwegian Director of Fisheries.
Jørgen Ree Wiig/Norwegian Director of Fisheries
The Guardian said those recent efforts were carried out by a private research institute on behalf of the navy to see if beluga whales could, "guard entrances to naval bases" in the arctic and "assist deepwater divers and if necessary kill any strangers who enter their territory," according to the Russian TV report.
The newspaper says public Russian government records show the defense ministry spent about $25,000 purchasing five bottle-nosed dolphins in 2016 from a sealife center in Moscow.
Russia and NATO in the Arctic
Over the past three years, President Vladimir Putin has reopened three former Soviet military bases along its vast Arctic coastline as Russia and NATO accuse each other of increasingly bellicose actions along their shared border in the far northern reaches of Europe.
As CBS News chief national security correspondent David Martin reported for "60 Minutes" on Sunday, Russia has been conducting simulated attacks near Norwegian territory with nuclear-capable warplanes.
How NATO and the U.S. are preparing for any Russian aggression off the coast of Norway
That, Norwegian joint force commander Lt. Gen. Rune Jakobsen told Martin, is "not something you should do to your neighbor."
In response to Russia's mounting belligerence in the region -- and in the wake of Putin's unilateral annexation the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine -- NATO held its largest war games to date in Norway last fall.
As Martin reported, Norway shares a 120-mile border with Russia, and its long Arctic coastline includes the closest points on European soil to the base of Russia's northern fleet, with its naval bases, airfields and nuclear weapons storage sites. The fleet, based on the remote Kola Peninsula, represent Russia's single greatest concentration of military power, especially submarines.
Martin was given rare access to the Norwegian military planes and ships tasked with monitoring Russia's actions in the Arctic, including their navy's newest surveillance vessel which has been equipped with the latest U.S. technology to detect submarines.
If what the Norwegian fishermen found is evidence of a current program by Russia's military, the Norwegians and their NATO partners might need to start looking for much smaller weapons of war, too -- weapons with flippers.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain’s ruling Socialists were considering possible partners for a new government for the politically polarized country on Monday after they won a national election but failed to secure a majority.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez faces a choice between a complex alliance with fellow leftists Podemos or joining forces across the political divide with the center-right Ciudadanos.
The Socialists won 123 seats in Sunday’s election, up from 84 in the outgoing parliament as they saw off the challenge from the right, which was splintered by the rise of the far-right Vox.
With nearly all the votes counted, the Socialists together with the far-left Podemos were 11 seats short of a majority in the 350-seat parliament.
That could mean Sanchez having to rely on pro-independence Catalan parties or Basque nationalists to govern.
“A Socialist-led government with support from Podemos seems the most likely outcome,” rating agency DBRS said in a report.
“This political combination needs the parliamentary support from smaller parties.”
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesais said on Sunday his party would happily enter a coalition with the Socialists, but Sanchez has yet to comment.
Another possibility that Sanchez has not ruled out is an alliance with Ciudadanos. The two parties would have enough seats to govern without other partners - an alliance favored by many in the business and financial world.
However, a Socialist-Ciudadanos deal appeared unlikely on Monday.
Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera told supporters on Sunday night his party would lead the parliamentary opposition to Sanchez.
Ines Arrimadas, head of Ciudadanos in Catalonia, added on Monday: “Everyone who voted for Ciudadanos did so knowing that we would not ally with Sanchez.”
POLITICAL MINEFIELD
Either way, negotiations on forming a government could take weeks or even months.
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) speaks to supporters while celebrating the result in Spain's general election in Madrid, Spain, April 28, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Perez
Under Spanish electoral law, a new government requires an absolute majority in parliament to take office in a first round of voting.
To do that in combination with Podemos, the Socialists would require the support of at least one lawmaker from the Catalan separatist camp.
The region’s independence drive was the most divisive issue in an election dominated by a sometimes fraught debate over national identity. In cutting a deal with the separatists, Sanchez risks stepping into a political minefield.
In any second round of voting, Sanchez would need only a simple majority to get his government voted in, which the Socialists and Podemos could do with backing of all regional parties except the Catalans, plus one abstention.
The picture could still change when the election count is finalised in coming weeks.
Still, the left clearly won Spain’s third national election in four years as the mainstream conservative Popular Party (PP) lost votes to Vox, which benefited from anti-immigration sentiment and concerns over Catalan separatism.
Vox became the first far-right party in Spain to have a major representation in parliament since the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.
The PP had its worst election since the early 1980s, winning just 66 seats - less that half of its total in the outgoing parliament.
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The PP, together with Ciudadanos and Vox combined only won 147 seats.
Sanchez called the election after failing to win support in parliament early this year for his 2019 budget.
Ciudadanos got 57 seats on Sunday, Podemos 42 and Vox 24.
Spanish stocks lagged broader European markets early on Monday
Reporting By Paul Day, writing by Axel Bugge in Lisbon; editing by John Stonestreet and Angus MacSwan
A UN special rapporteur has said he was "the victim of a brutal and premeditated killing, planned and perpetrated by officials of the state of Saudi Arabia", but the Saudi government has insisted it was a "rogue operation".
The UAE is Saudi Arabia's closest Arab ally, but there has been no evidence to suggest that it was involved in Khashoggi's death.
The two men detained in Turkey on 15 April were charged four days later with "political, military and international espionage" after they allegedly confessed to spying on exiled dissidents and students for the UAE.
At the time of their detention Turkish officials said that one of the two suspects had arrived in Turkey only a few days after the killing of Khashoggi. The other suspect had arrived later to assist his colleague, the officials added.
The knives were discovered on Friday in a classroom at the prestigious Ochanomizu University Junior High School, attended by Prince Hisahito.
The mysterious discovery comes just days before Hisahito's uncle, Crown Prince Naruhito, is due to ascend the throne, following the abdication of Emperor Akihito this Tuesday.
According to reports, Hisahito, who is third in line to the throne, but will become second in line after his uncle's ascension, was in a different part of the school building when the knives were discovered.
The two kitchen knives, which had been taped to either end of a stick and whose blades were reportedly painted pink, were discovered balanced between Hisahito's desk and his neighbor's, Japan's Asahi Shimbun reported. Nothing indicating a motive, or a claim of responsibility was left with the contraption.
Each desk has the name of its occupant written on it, making the prince's desk easily identifiable, the newspaper said.
Security footage from the school appeared to show a middle-aged man, wearing the uniform and helmet of a construction worker, on school premises around the time that the knives were discovered.
The school addressed the incident with a statement on its website, pledging to review its security protocols.
"We deeply apologize to have caused the great concern to everyone with regards to the incident at Ochanomizu University Junior High School," the statement, attributed to the university's president, Kimiko Murofushi, says.
"Ochanomizu University will review security measures urgently, in coordination with the junior high school, and work to secure its safety so that this kind of incident will never happen again."
While Hisahito has a police detail, they do not accompany him into class, according to reports.
The 12-year-old prince began studying at the school last month, Japan's national broadcaster NHK reported, after graduating from the university's affiliated elementary school.
Epochal change
Emperor Akihito will step down from the Chrysanthemum Throne -- the first abdication from the Japanese throne in 200 years -- on Tuesday.
Hisahito's uncle, Crown Prince Naruhito, will become the country's 126th emperor when he is crowned in a ceremony on Wednesday.
The 12-year-old is the only male grandchild of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Given Japan's male-only hereditary laws, he will become second in line to the throne after his father becomes the crown prince and successor this week, when Naruhito ascends.
In August 2016, Akihito gave a rare televised address, where he said his age and fitness level could make it "difficult" to carry out his duties in the future, a plea many took as a request to step aside.
Following that speech, the Japanese parliament in June passed into law a historic bill to allow 83-year-old Akihito to abdicate. Japan is the oldest hereditary monarchy in the world, dating back 14 centuries.
Akihito himself is a direct descendant of Japan's first Emperor, Jimmu, believed to have reigned around 660 BC.
