Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned of the ‘colossal danger‘ that could arise from escalated tensions and fighting between North and South Korea.  A motion to block entry to the EU for 60 Russian officials implicated in the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky will now go to the European Parliament for a December vote, after it was unanimously approved by the EU’s Foreign Affairs Committee. The head of the Duma’s foreign affairs committee, Konstantin Kosachev, says the move ‘violates the presumption of innocence‘ and ‘causes bewilderment‘.  Kosachev also commented on the ‘untimely‘ decision to hold a UN Security Council meeting on the Korean situation before evidence had been properly collected.