Here are today's top stories:

- The United States will formally withdraw from UNESCO in December. The U.S. government maintains that the international agency upholds 'anti-Israel' policies and is in need of reform, Reuters reports.

- U.S. President Donald Trump has announced new measures to weaken Obamacare. The White House has indicated that it will not pay the subsidies to insurance companies for low-income people Financial Times reports.

- British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has told the European Union to speed up Brexit talks. Johnson was reacting to chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier's comments that the negotiations were in a deadlock over money, Europa Press reports.

- The G7 reached an agreement to put more pressure on North Korea. The most industrialized countries in the world agreed to cooperate to ensure that the Pyongyang regime complies with UN sanctions, Europa Press reports.

- In Spain, the CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy) party is calling on Catalan President Carles Puigdemont to declare independence, El País reports.

- Samsung Electronics CEO Kwon Oh-Hyun to resign, pointing to an 'unprecedented crisis' in the company, Financial Times reports.

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