<p>Live from the newsroom, France 24's Oliver Farry provides an overview of stories making international newspaper headlines.</p><br />Spanish and Catalan papers report on the Catalan regional elections where pro-indepedence parties won an absolute majority, further fuelling calls for a referendum on secession. Pro-Madrid factions say however that the Catalan nationalists lost the 'plebiscite' because they got only 48% of the vote.<br />In New York, Russia wrongfoots the West on Syria ahead of the UN General Assembly but the positions of both Moscow and Washington are getting closer to one another.<br /><br />Visit our website:<br />http://www.france24.com<br /><br />Like us on Facebook:<br />https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24.English<br /><br />Follow us on Twitter:<br />https://twitter.com/France24_en
