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Western nations rebuke Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi killing

The European Union and eight other nations condemned Saudi Arabia, demanding that it cooperate with a U.N.-led investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's brazen murder.

The U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva
The U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva (AN/Maina Kiai)

GENEVA (AN) — The European Union and eight other nations condemned Saudi Arabia in the U.N. Human Rights Council, an unprecedented move to demand its cooperation with a United Nations-led investigation into Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing.

The statement signed by 36 nations, including the entire 28-nation E.U. bloc, represented the first collective rebuke of Saudi Arabia since the council was established in 2006.

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