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SOCULTURES DECEMBER 2018
Celebrations
Nostalgia 2018
October
Saudi Arabia admits Jamal Khashoggi is dead
A journalist and the former editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel, Jamal
Khashoggi had disappeared. On October 20 th , Saudi Arabia admitted for the first
time that the journalist was killed in its Istanbul consulate. Riyadh’s first
acknowledgement came of his death after two weeks of denials.
World’s longest sea bridge is opened
On October 23 rd ,
Chinese President Xi
Jinping
officially opened the wo
rld's longest sea
crossing bridge; nine
years after its
construction first began.
On Stretching over 34.2
miles (55 kilometers),
the Hong Kong–
Zhuhai–Macau Bridge
connects the three
major cities on the Pearl
River Delta. The bridge
cost nearly $20 billion
to build.
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