Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S A : Today’s news

Here are today's top stories:

- The South Korean military believes that the North Korean regime successfully launched a missile into Japanese waters, illustrating once again Pyongyang's desire to push ahead with their nuclear weapons program, despite sanctions from the international community and warnings from the United States, The Guardian reports.

- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that Europe can no longer completely rely on other countries as it has done in the past. This statement came after the NATO summit in Brussels and the G7 in Italy last week, The Wall Street Journal reports.

- French President Emmanuel Macron has already shown that he is capable in the most theatrical aspect of politics, El País reports. In his first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump in Brussels, he held firmly onto his hand and did not let go for several seconds, as he revealed in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche.

- Brazil is having a hard time finding a consensus candidate to replace President Michel Temer if he is forced to step down over a corruption probe, Reuters reports.

- The movie 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales', the fifth movie in the pirate saga, sailed into first place in the U.S. box office, but the story the numbers dictate is not one of swashbuckling heroics, Reuters reports.