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Ukraine has ruled out direct negotiations between the Kiev government and pro-Russian rebels.
"We will not hold direct negotiations with Russian terrorists. I translate into Russian: We will not hold direct negotiations with your mercenaries."
French authorities have confirmed a second Frenchman was among IS insurgents that appeared on a decapitation video.
"It's hugely sad, because to think that a young man could have been misled into a sort of organised crime.”
And Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has visited a village in eastern China and praised the entrepreneurship of the villagers.
"You are known as the 'the First Village of Online Shop ', am I right? That means you are pioneers and are among the earliest to form a business cluster.”
Those stories and more over the hour and towards the end of the show we'll be looking at comments online about cyberbulling.
We'll talk about them later but first our global survey of headlines.
First up, in Asia,
In Afghanistan, police have killed four Taliban suicide bombers who tried to attack a compound housing foreign workers in the capital Kabul.
In Pakistan, a local court has sentenced four people to death for bludgeoning to death a pregnant relative who had married without their consent.
In North Korea, the UN human rights committee has passed a motion calling for the Security Council to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court over its human rights record.
In Oceania,
In the Solomon Islands, people there have voted in the first parliamentary elections since an Australian-led military peacekeeping mission ended.
In Australia, the Federal Government has announced that asylum seekers who registered with the UN in Indonesia after June will no longer be eligible for resettlement in Australia.
Moving on to Africa,
In Burkina Faso, authorities have appointed army officer Lt. Col. Isaac Zida as transitional prime minister of the country.
In Malawi, police have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of primary school students protesting at the government's delay in paying their teachers' salaries.
And in the Middle East,
In Egypt, ten people have been killed in overnight fighting between Islamist militants and soldiers in the north of Sinai Peninsula.
In Iraq, a suicide car bombing has killed at least six people in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Irbil.
Looking to Latin America,
In Honduras, police have arrested two men over the killing of beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado and her sister who vanished on a night out last week.
In Chile, a local court has ordered the state to pay around 7.5 million US dollars to 30 former political prisoners held on a remote island during the military rule of Augusto Pinochet.
In Cuba, a doctor working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola, in what is thought to be the country's first case of the disease.
And in Europe,
A motion to sack Jean-Claude Juncker's European Commission will be put to a vote next week at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
In Spain, prosecutors in the country are set to file criminal charges against Catalan President Artur Mas in response to the November 9 unofficial independence vote.
In Ireland, the government has capped its domestic water charges at 200 US dollars for single adult households and 326 dollars for others, a key austerity measure.
And finally in North America,
In the United States, a massive snowstorm has wreaked havoc in north-eastern part of the country and left seven people dead in upstate New York.
Staying in the country, President Barack Obama will announce his plans to use overriding executive powers to enact major changes to immigration policy later this week.