Mogadishu, Iran, North Korea: Your Monday Briefing<br />Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that President Trump told him to continue diplomatic efforts with North Korea, and<br />that those efforts would continue "until the first bomb drops." _____ • "We had to run for our lives." Heartbreaking stories are flooding in from Northern California residents who fled moments before their homes and neighborhoods were consumed by some 17 fires that have killed at least 40 people.<br />The issue: an Indian conglomerate’s proposal to create one of the largest coal mines in the world, carrying the promise of thousands of new jobs — in a country<br />that already produces more coal than any other nation except China, the U.S. and India.<br />[The New York Times] • In Vietnam, at least 68 people were killed by flooding and landslides over the weekend.<br />[The New York Times] • The leader of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, faces a deadline today to clarify whether he has declared independence from Spain.<br />The Taliban said he had been fed "fabricated claims." [The New York Times] • An experiment in Humpty Doo, Australia,<br />aims to save the banana from an insidious fungus that has wiped out vast crops in recent years.<br />If photographs appear out of order, please download the updated New York Times app from iTunes or Google Play.
