Catalan crisis: Carles Puigdemont 'welcome' to run in poll
The Spanish government has said it would welcome the participation of sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont in new elections.
The central government in Madrid has ordered that fresh elections for the regional parliament of Catalonia should take place in December.
It stripped Catalonia of its autonomy after the Catalan parliament voted to declare independence.
Mr Puigdemont is urging "democratic opposition" to direct rule from Madrid.
He condemned the suspension of Catalonia's autonomy and promised to continue to "work to build a free country".
Spain has been gripped by a constitutional crisis since an independence referendum, organised by Mr Puigdemont's separatist government, was held earlier this month in defiance of a ruling by the Constitutional Court which had declared it illegal.
Battle for the mother land: indigenous people of Colombia fighting for their lands
The 50-year civil war is over but, in the Cauca Valley, indigenous communities are on frontline of fight against drug gangs, riot police and deforestation
A green-and-red flag flies over a cluster of bamboo and tarpaulin tents on the frontline of an increasingly deadly struggle for land and the environment in Colombia’s Cauca Valley.
It is the banner for what indigenous activists are calling the “liberation of Mother Earth”, a movement to reclaim ancestral land from sugar plantations, farms and tourist resorts that has gained momentum in the vacuum left by last year’s peace accord between the government and the paramilitaries who once dominated the region – ending, in turn, the world’s longest-running civil war.
The ragtag outpost in Corinto has been hacked out of a sugar plantation, destroyed by riot police, then reoccupied by the activists, who want to stop supplying coca (the main ingredient for cocaine) to drug traffickers in the mountains by cultivating vegetables on the plains instead.
Warlord CityThe Business of Fear in Boomtown Mogadishu
Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, is a city with little functioning infrastructure and a relentless cascade of violence. But some inhabitants of the city have been able to take advantage of the ongoing civil war to make themselves rich, and their business is feeding the horror.
The first courses had just been served when the war came to the country club in Mogadishu. Fifty guests, including businesspeople and government officials, were sitting at long tables laden with bowls of camel stew, goat meat, lobster and swordfish. When a van filled with explosives detonated in front of the gate, the resulting explosion demolished part of the protective wall, blew the second floor right off the villa and destroyed the building's entire front.
Four attackers then fired at the country club's security staff with assault rifles and, when they returned fired, stormed a nearby restaurant. By the time the last fighter was finally shot dead 12 hours later, three gunmen and 16 guests had been killed.
Powder keg on Manus Island as refugees refuse to leave immigration center
Updated 0133 GMT (0933 HKT) October 29, 2017
A confrontation is looming in Papua New Guinea (PNG) between local authorities and more than 700 men who are refusing to leave an Australian-run immigration processing center.
The center on Manus Island is set to be cleared Monday, but many of the refugees and asylum seekers claim they'll be attacked if they leave the security of the compound's wire fences by locals who don't want them there.
Those at the center include 551 refugees and 167 other asylum seekers whose claims were rejected by the Australian government.
Rouhani: Iran will continue to produce missiles
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said Tehran will continue to produce missiles for defence purposes and does not believe its missile development programme violates international accords.
In a speech to parliament on Sunday, Rouhani also hit out at the US, calling negotiations with Washington "madness."
"We have built, are building and will continue to build missiles," the 68-year-old was quoted by State TV as saying.
Typhoon Saola packing more rain for Pacific coast as it rumbles toward Tokyo
KYODO
Typhoon Saola was churning along the Pacific coast of Honshu on Sunday, with the Meteorological Agency saying the storm would dump more heavy rain on much of the country through Monday.
The season’s 22nd typhoon, was 170 km south of Cape Muroto in Kochi Prefecture as of 2 p.m. and had an atmospheric pressure of 975 hectopascals. It was heading north-northeast at a speed of 35 kph.
The Meteorological Agency warned of strong winds, river flooding caused by heavy rain and mudslides.
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