Spanish authorities, on Sunday, raided warehouses in Barcelona to confiscate over 1.3million leaflets and campaign material promoting the Catalan independence referendum.

Spain’s Interior Ministry said the operation was the largest in a series of similar raids, reports Reuters.

Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi on Saturday warned Kurds against holding the independence referendum planned for September 25. 

Mr Abadi said holding the referendum was like "playing with fire", Reuters reported. 

Hamas announced on Sunday that it has dissolved its administration of the Gaza strip, and would be prepared to commence talks with Fatah on holding general elections and forming a unity government.

Dissolving the Hamas run Gaza administrative body was a key condition sent by President Mahmoud Abbas. 

The United States has denounced the Kurdistan Regional Government’s intention of holding an independence referendum later this month.

In a press statement made by the White House on Friday, the Office of the Press Secretary said,

The United Nations called on the international community for massive assistance to help approximately 400,000 Muslims from Myanmar who fled to Bangladesh, reports Reuters.

In a statement made on Thursday, the director of operations and emergencies for the International Organisation of Migration, Mohammed Abdiker, said,

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday renewed her call for the Libyan commander, Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf Al-Werfalli to be arrested over allegations of war crimes. 

The renewed call came after reports that Commander Werfalli was responsible for more killings. 

Spain has summoned 712 Catalan mayors for endorsing the independence referendum due to be held on October 1, reports Al Jazeera. 

The state prosecutor has called for the mayors to be arrested if they fail to comply with the summons. 

Myanmar’  leader Aung San Suu Kyi has cancelled a trip to the United Nations General Assembly due to the crisis in the Rakhine state, said her office on Wednesday.

Speaking at a press conference, the leader’s spokesperson Zaw Htay said Ms Suu Kyi was focusing on preventing any spread of communal violence, adding that “She is concentrating on establishing stability.”

The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday reiterated the country's support for an independent state of Kurdistan ahead of the planned independence referendum on Septemeber 25. 

"[Israel] supports the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to achieve their own state,” Mr Netanyahu was quoted by Reuters as saying. 

The president of Iraqi Kurdistan said it will draw orders of a future Kurdish state if Baghdad refused to accept an independence referendum taking place later this month.

Speaking to the BBC Kurdish president Massoud Barzani, said he wanted to reach an agreement with the central government if the Kurdish people opted to secede.

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One million marched on Tuesday calling for independence to Catalonia, ahead of the plan independence referendum on October 1. 

The march, held on Catalonia's national day, La Diada de Catalunya, was in its sixth year running. 

Myanmar has rejected the Rohingya militant’s declaration of ceasefire amidst what the UN has described as movements of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya community.

Shortly after the Rohingya militants declared a ceasefire on Sunday, Myanmar’s government spokesperson Zaw Htay said it would not negotiate with terrorists, tweeting,

“We have no policy to negotiate with terrorists.”

Opening the current session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, High Commissioner Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein condemned Myanmar's violence against the Rohingya population, stating it was a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and called on the government to stop its “complete denial of reality”. 
 

The armed Rohingya organisation, Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army declared a unilateral month long ceasefire on Saturday in order allow aid to be distributed. 

Violence in Myanmar between government troops and ARSA has dramatically escalated in recent weeks after Myanmar's troops launched a large scale operation in Rakhine purported to be in retaliation for coordinated attacks on police posts by ARSA.