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President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has been a promoter of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman since the early days of the administration and recently offered the prince advice on how to handle the outrage over the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Kushner, 37, who serves as Trump's adviser on the Middle East, has kept up informal conversations with the prince, 33, since early 2017, the Times reported, citing unnamed sources. Three former senior officials told the paper that the politically inexperienced Kushner's private chats with Mohammed could have made him "susceptible to Saudi manipulation."

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Vladimir Putin has threatened that Russia will develop new missiles banned by the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty if the US exits the pact and pursues an arms buildup of its own.

The Russian president’s remarks came one day after the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said Moscow was in “material breach” of the cold war-era treaty and issued a 60-day ultimatum for Russia to correct the alleged violations. Otherwise, he said, the US would quit the 1987 accord, considered a milestone in reducing the threat of a nuclear war in Europe.

The world's largest hotel company, Marriott International, said on Friday that up to 500 million hotel guests may have had their personal details hacked in a massive four-year-long breach of a reservation database.

Marriott said its Starwood Hotels & Resorts reservation database in the United States had suffered a "data security incident" involving unlawful access stretching back to 2014.

The company said an "unauthorised party had copied and encrypted information and took steps towards removing it."

Brazilian officials announced on Friday that deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has reached its worst level in a decade.

Buzzfeed reported that about 7,900 square kilometers, which is the equivalent of about 3,050 square miles, of rainforest was cleared out between August 2017 and July 2018.

BuzzFeed, citing data from GreenPeace Brazil, noted that the data means about 1.185 billion trees were cut down.

The news outlet notes that the official data from Brazil comes amid concerns that president-elect Jair Bolsonaro's time in office will only lead to an increased rate of deforestation.

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As world leaders gathered Sunday in France to commemorate the end World War I 100 years ago, the host nation's President Emmanuel Macron rebuked "nationalism," which runs contrary to U.S. President Donald Trump's "America First" stance.

As Trump stood nearby, the host nation's leader, Emmanuel Macron decried the foreign policy as the root of the First World War and succeeding conflicts.

"Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism," Macron said in French at the ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris marking the centennial of the armistice that ended World War I. "Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By saying our interests first, who cares about the others, we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great and what is essential: its moral values."

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Turkish media have reported that staff at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul tried to dismantle security cameras to help cover up the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The pro-government Sabah newspaper reported on Tuesday that the Saudis tried to rip out the camera inside the consulate on October 2, the day Khashoggi was murdered.

They also tried to tamper with cameras at the police security booth outside the building.

The body of Khashoggi, a former Washington Post columnist and critic of the powerful Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, remains missing.

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