Regional leader Carles Puigdemont emphasized the importance of dialogue in a major speech. More than a week ago, the region voted for independence from Spain, in a referendum Madrid considers illegal.
The populist, anti-immigrant party is led by a lesbian former investment banker who's worked in China and a 76-year-old politician who abandoned Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
President Trump is expected to decertify the Iran nuclear deal later this week, but many Europeans believe the Iran deal is working and plan to continue building links with Tehran.
The president of Catalonia says he has a mandate to declare his region's independence from Spain — but he's suspending the process to allow possible mediation and talks with the Spanish government.
The U.N. warns the situation in Yemen will only get worse if the warring parties — one side backed by Saudi Arabia and the U.S., the other by Iran — don't get back to the negotiating table.
NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute about the recent visa dispute between the United States and Turkey.
The rise of independent cafes and popular artisanal brewing methods have sparked a growth in national consumption. Now, about 10 percent of coffee produced in the Central American country stays there.
Many in the ruling party believe they are being undermined by Pakistani military and intelligence officials, backed by what they see as a subservient judiciary.
New Yorker writer Dexter Filkins says Sec. of State Rex Tillerson is a diplomat in an administration that doesn't value diplomacy: "Rex is a sober, steady guy, and the president is anything but that."