News Headlines - 18 November 2017

▽Belgian court defers ruling on Carles Puidgemont extradition | The Guardian

A Belgian court has deferred a decision on Spain’s extradition request for the exiled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four members of his former government to next month.
Puigdemont’s lawyer, Paul Bekaert, said no decision had been taken during Friday’s short hearing and the case would resume on 4 December.

▽South Korean ex-spy chiefs arrested over corruption scandal | SBS News

Two former heads of South Korea's spy agency were arrested on Friday on suspicion of paying millions of dollars in bribes to aides of ousted president Park Geun-Hye, as a widening corruption scandal rocks the country.

▽North Korean soldier stable, but riddled with parasites | The Japan Times

A North Korean soldier shot multiple times while defecting to the South is in a stable condition but riddled with parasites that could complicate his chances of survival, his doctor said Thursday.

▽sexual assault: US military reports 20,348 sexual assaults in 4 years - The Economic Times

The US military has reported a total of 20,348 sexual assaults from 2013 to 2016 at the country's defence installations around the world, the Pentagon said in a new report.

▽Rare Tintin art fetches $500,000 at Paris auction - BBC News

A rare India ink drawing of young reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy has been sold for almost $500,000 (￡380,000) at auction in Paris.
The picture from the 1939 comic album King Ottokar's Sceptre was among items by Hergé, the Belgian artist who created Tintin, to go under the hammer.