1. Israel says it would not attend a number of scheduled EU meetings after the bloc’s decision to label goods imported from Israeli settlements.
2. German media accuse the country’s spy agency of snooping on targets, including the French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, the FBI, and the UN Children’s Fund.
3. A leading politician in the Italian parliament decries as cynical and inhumane the erecting of fences between European Union countries to try to keep out asylum-seekers.
4. Spain’s Constitutional Court suspends Catalonia’s independence motion; the Catalan government pledges to push ahead with the process.
5. In Bahrain, a court sentences a senior opposition to two years in prison for allegedly inciting people to public disobedience.