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Jamal Khashoggi, Italy, Ryanair: Your Tuesday Briefing

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Good morning. Diplomatic drama in Riyadh, U.S. immigration politics, fears of a three-way Cold War.

Here’s the latest:

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• A reckoning for Saudi Arabia.

There are fresh doubts about the Saudi explanation of Jamal Khashoggi’s death after a video surfaced of a “body double” leaving the consulate in Istanbul where the journalist was killed. A Saudi operative donned Mr. Khashoggi’s clothes and walked around the city as part of a cover-up, surveillance images leaked by Turkey show.

Security images of the real Mr. Khashoggi and his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, above, show his final hours.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has promised to give an unvarnished account of what happened to Mr. Khashoggi in a speech today.

Meanwhile, the White House sent the C.I.A. director, Gina Haspel, to Turkey to help with the investigation. And Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met in Riyadh with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who is suspected of playing a role in Mr. Khashoggi’s death.

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• Will U.S. voters turn on fear?

As thousands of Central American migrants, some of them pictured above, make their way toward the U.S. border, the Trump administration is examining an array of new policies that it hopes will deter them.

They include a plan to force parents to choose between relinquishing their children to foster care or remaining imprisoned together as a family, and another that would further strengthen the standard of proof on asylum cases.

It’s all part of Mr. Trump’s efforts to stoke fears about foreigners and crime ahead of the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 6, as he did to great effect in the 2016 presidential race. Will it work again?

Here’s a tip sheet for our midterm coverage.

Mr. Trump’s claim that “unknown Middle Easterners” have infiltrated the migrant caravan lacks evidence, our reporters found.

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Fears of a three-way Cold War.

As President Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, continues meeting with Russian officials in Moscow today, experts worry that the U.S., Russia and China are on the brink of a 1950s-style weapons race.

In Moscow, Mr. Bolton said he had directly criticized Russian officials for meddling in U.S. elections, and that a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia was now outdated. Mr. Trump has said the U.S. will withdraw from the 1987 treaty, citing Russia’s violation of the agreement and the fact that China was not a signatory, leaving it free to build up its Pacific arsenal.

Above, President Xi Jinping of China and President Vladimir Putin of Russia signaled collaboration at a meeting last month in Vladivostok, Russia.

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• In Italy, even school lunch is political.

At an elementary school in the city of Lodi, immigrant children eat lunch in a separate room — one result of a new rule requiring foreigners to prove they do not have property, bank accounts or other revenue streams in their countries of origin. Without that proof, children lose their daily lunch subsidies and have to bring their own food.

The rule by the town’s mayor, a member of the anti-immigrant League party, has sizable local support. But it has also prompted a wave of donations from critics.

Above, children playing outside the mayor’s office.

Separately, Italy told the E.U. that it would not back down from a plan to sharply increase public spending, a move that would defy bloc rules.

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• The skiing saboteur.

In 1943, a team of Norwegian resistance fighters skied over moonlit snow toward a hydropower plant that was a crucial part of Nazi Germany’s atomic weapons program. Then they blew up storage tanks full of heavy water, an essential isotope.

Had the dramatic raid failed, London would have ended up “looking like Hiroshima,” said Lt. Joachim Ronneberg, the team’s leader and longest-surviving member, who died on Sunday at 99. (Above, Mr. Ronneberg in 2015.)

Read our obituary here.

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• Ryanair, the low-budget carrier, is facing intense backlash for failing to take action against a white man who unleashed a racist tirade against a black passenger on one of its flights. (It also posted a 7 percent drop in profits, citing strikes and rising fuel costs.)

• UBS, the Swiss bank, discouraged dozens of its wealth managers from traveling to China after one of them was prevented from flying home to Singapore from Beijing.

• American businesses and universities need specialists from Europe and Asia to help them build quantum computing technology. But red tape and new immigration rules are getting in the way.

Lockheed Martin — a defense contractor for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen — is set to report quarterly earnings today.

• U.S. stocks slipped Monday. Here’s a snapshot of global markets.

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• Morocco has arrested thousands of sub-Saharan migrants, in a crackdown rights groups say was coordinated with Spain and the E.U. to stem the tide of migrants to the Continent. The government says it is fighting human trafficking. [The New York Times]

• Australia officially apologized for failing to protect children from sexual abuse, a moment of reckoning almost a year after a government inquiry uncovered a decades-long epidemic. [The New York Times]

• In Afghanistan, an Afghan commando shot and killed a NATO soldier, days after an infiltrator killed a top Afghan commander and wounded an American general. [The New York Times]

• An explosive device was found north of New York near the home of George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire philanthropist who is a favorite target of right-wing groups. [The New York Times]

• The world’s longest sea bridge opens today, as part of a larger effort to connect Hong Kong with the Chinese mainland. [The New York Times]

• A French priest committed suicide in a church after being accused of, though not charged with, sexually assaulting a minor. [BBC]

• In memoriam: Gilberto Benetton, one of four founding siblings of the Italian fashion brand Benetton. He was 77. [The Associated Press]

Tips for a more fulfilling life.

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• Recipe of the day: Make a sheet-pan chicken for dinner after a quick, easy marinade.

• Here’s how to age wine without anxiety.

• Many products promise to help women manage their periods. Choose wisely.

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• Another side of Paris: Our writer spent six days walking the perimeter of the city’s hyper-gentrified core. His “centrifugal excursions” offer a fresh look at its political and cultural boundaries.

The London-based chef Yotam Ottolenghi has a new cookbook that tackles shrimp-and-clam pasta (among other delish dishes).

• Hotels are reconfiguring themselves for the social media era, with everything from room designs to menu options created with all-important Instagram posts in mind.

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The Russian Soyuz spacecraft has outlasted all others. Designed at the height of the space race, it now symbolizes cooperation, transporting astronauts from around the world to the International Space Station. Recently, it made an emergency landing with Russian and American astronauts aboard.

The spacecraft’s first successful crewed mission, Soyuz 3, blasted off 50 years ago this week. The pilot, Georgi Beregovoi, a Soviet Air Force officer, would also play an important role in international space cooperation.

Shortly before Apollo 11’s moon landing in 1969, he hosted the first tour by an American astronaut of Moscow’s cosmonaut training center, then went on a coast-to-coast U.S. good-will tour.

He attended parties, ate barbecue and met President Richard Nixon. Eugene Cernan, an American astronaut, tried to explain an American football game. In Hollywood, stars turned out for a bash. General Beregovoi warmly greeted Frank Sinatra in the receiving line, then turned and asked, “Who is he?”

He got a taste of the American space program at NASA’s Apollo simulator, and another at Disneyland on the “Flight to the Moon” ride.

“Friendship,” General Beregovoi said at the end of his trip, “is a force which will help the world to conquer space.”

Albert Sun wrote today’s Back Story.

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