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Pompeo, Moon Hint at Possibility of New North Korea Talks

Top News: After South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un each made concessions at a summit this week in Pyongyang, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he would be willing to “engage immediately” in denuclearization negotiations with North Korea, with an end goal of January 2021.

Speaking from Seoul after the summit, Moon told reporters that Kim wants a second meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, and a visit to North Korea from Pompeo.

He also said a formal declaration ending the 1950-53 Korean War “would mark a starting point for peace negotiations.”

European Union: British Prime Minister Theresa May told EU leaders in Salzburg not to expect an extension of the Brexit negotiations, or a second referendum. The diplomats gathered from the 27 member states were pushing for guarantees on the status of the border between Northern Ireland and EU member state Ireland.

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AFRICA

•  Police in Uganda have denied arresting opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, though security forces were seen intercepting him upon his arrival on Thursday at Entebbe International Airport.

•  Equatorial Guinea is demanding that Brazil turn over $16 million in cash and luxury watches, seized on Sept. 14 from a delegation including the president’s son, Teodorin Nguema Obiang, who is also the country’s vice president.

•  This week, Amnesty International denounced the killings of around 400 civilians in Cameroon’s two Anglophone regions.

AMERICAS

•  Colombia has removed its negotiating team from peace talks with National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels in order to pressure the group into meeting further conditions, including the release of hostages.

•  This week, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales indicated the government will defy the country’s Constitutional Court and refuse to allow the head of the United Nations anti-graft commission (CICIG) to reenter the country.

•  The trial of eight men charged with the murder of indigenous and environmental leader Berta Cáceres has been delayed in Honduras after accusations of judicial abuse and misconduct.

ASIA

•  Only days after Typhoon Mangkhut hit the Philippines, a landslide has killed at least 12 people in Cebu province and left dozens missing.

•  A parliamentary committee in Singapore has asked the government to pass laws regulating fake news, prompting statements of concern from Google and Twitter.

•  “Triple talaq” permitted Muslim men in India to divorce their wives verbally, but no more: An executive council has criminalized the practice (in all but one of the country’s states) after pressure from Muslim women’s groups.

EUROPE

•  U.S. President Donald Trump advised Spain to build a wall across the Sahara desert to stop migration to Europe, according to Spain’s foreign minister, Josep Borrell.

•  The European Court of Human Rights decided in favor of two women who alleged that the bodies of their husbands, both victims of a Polish Air Force crash, had been exhumed without their consent on the orders of Polish prosecutors.

•  Georgia’s Orthodox church has managed to stall a bill that would legalize medical marijuana cultivation for export.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Israel has stated it would “deconflict” its continuing Syria strikes with Russian forces, after a Russian surveillance plane was brought down over northern Syria on Monday.

•  Palestinians intending to undertake the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca may face complications due to Saudi Arabia’s decision to ban Palestinians with temporary Jordanian passports from entering the country.

•  Following Spain’s decision to continue arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Germany has approved a delivery of artillery positioning systems to Riyadh, despite a Yemen-related ban.

- By Elizabeth Miles

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