Reuters At least 64 people have been killed after a fire swept through a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo. More than 100 people were evacuated as the fire tore through the building on Sunday night and people were seen jumping from windows. As dawn broke in Russia’s coal-producing Kemerovo region, heavy black smoke was still billowing. Rescue ...

Bloomberg In the US and across the European Union, a number of Russia diplomats are being expelled in a coordinated response to the nerve-agent poisoning of a former Russian spy in the UK. President Donald Trump has ordered the departure of 60 Russian diplomats. Russia is poised to respond in kind while 14 European nations are unrolling their own action. ...

Bloomberg Carles Puigdemont’s removal from Catalonia’s political scene to a German jail forces the separatist movement to take a decision: keep bickering on the way ahead, or set aside outstanding differences and form a regional government. The former Catalan president’s detention in Germany on Sunday was hailed by anti-separatist forces as a decisive blow against the push for Catalan independence. ...