Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou smile as they arrive for their meeting at Shangrila hotel in Singapore on November 7, 2015. (AFP)
- Leaders of Taiwan and China are to meet in Singapore. This is the first such meeting in six decades.
- The leader of the biggest US-based Jewish community slams Tel Aviv’s policies, its settlement activities, and hate-crime attacks against Palestinians.
- A video showing police violently arresting two young people for jaywalking in Texas goes viral. Two people who witnessed the incident are also arrested.
- A US Democratic Senator has proposed a bill to combat the rising tide of international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or B-D-S movement against Israel.
- The family of an elderly Palestinian woman shot dead by Israeli soldiers says she was in the gas station simply to fuel up.
- Now to Austin, the capital of the US state of Texas, where jaywalking is apparently seen as a heinous crime. Take a look at this viral video that shows how a bunch of cops charge toward two African-Americans and beat them black and blue for the alleged petty offence.
- The UK parliament has to consider a debate on a no-confidence vote in the British Prime Minister, as the online petition calling for the debate exceeds the required minimum signatures.
- Portugal's main opposition parties have formed an unprecedented alliance which puts them in a position to bring down the country's new centre-right government.
- Pro-Russia fighters in eastern Ukraine have accused the government of shelling residential regions under their control with heavy weapons.
- The Russian president has ordered the suspension of all flights to Egypt following the indications that last week’s crash of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt was caused by a bomb.
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