Spain likely to seek arrest of ousted Catalan leader, top judge says
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish courts are likely to issue a European arrest warrant for former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, now in Belgium, after he failed to appear at a hearing on Thursday, Spain’s top judge said.
South Korea spy agency sees signs of planned new missile test by North
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea may be planning a new missile test, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday, after brisk activity was spotted at its research facilities, just days before U.S. President Donald Trump visits Seoul.
Kremlin calls updated U.S. sanctions on Russia extremely negative
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Moscow regarded updated U.S. sanctions on Russia extremely negatively.
Supreme Leader Khamenei says U.S. is Iran’s ‘number one enemy’: TV
ANKARA (Reuters) – The United States is Iran’s “number one enemy” and Tehran will never succumb to Washington’s pressure over a multinational nuclear deal, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech on Thursday.
Germany records surge in refugees as Merkel seeks new migrant policy
BERLIN (Reuters) – The number of people seeking refuge in Germany has more than doubled in the last two years to 1.6 million, with most fleeing Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Federal Statistics Office said on Thursday.
Moscow hopes Syrian opposition will attend Russia-backed congress: Ifax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia hopes that all Syrian opposition groups will attend a Moscow-backed Syrian congress in southern Russia on Nov. 18 despite some objections, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Thursday, the Interfax news ag…
South Korea spy agency sees possibility of new North Korean missile test: Yonhap
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea may possibly carry out a new missile test, as brisk activity has been spotted at its research facilities, South Korea’s spy agency said on Thursday, the South’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
Kurds offer joint border deployment as Iraq threatens to resume military operations
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s Kurdistan region said on Thursday it has offered a joint Kurdish-Iraqi deployment at a strategic crossing into Turkey, with the participation of the U.S.-led coalition that was helping fight Islamic State.
Filipino lawyers’ group challenges Duterte’s war on drugs
MANILA (Reuters) – Filipino lawyers on Thursday announced a broad alliance to challenge President Rodrigo Duterte’s 16-month war on drugs amid unprecedented scrutiny of the campaign in which more than 3,900 mostly urban, poor Filipinos have been killed…
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi ‘urges people not to quarrel’ on visit to Rakhine
SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on Thursday urged people “not to quarrel” as she visited Rakhine State for the first time since a military crackdown that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee the coun…
