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News in Brief - Tue, Sep, 1, 2015 - 21:30 GMT

Tuesday, 01 September 2015 11:09 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 02 September 2015 9:59 AM ]

Refugees walk along the 4 meter tall border fence on the Serbian side looking for a place to cross into Hungary near the village of Asotthalom on 1 September 2015. The EU is grappling with an unprecedented influx of people fleeing war, repression and poverty in what the bloc has described as its worst refugee crisis in 50 years. AFP / CSABA SEGESVARI

1. Kurdish authorities say the ISIL terrorists attacked Peshmerga forces by explosives that produced a considerable amount of yellow smoke.

2. Lebanese riot police have forcefully removed protesters who had occupied part of the Environment Ministry over a deepening garbage crisis.

3. The United Nations relief agency responsible for the welfare of Palestine refugees is warning that the besieged Gaza Strip could become uninhabitable for its residents by 2020.

4. The Egyptian Interior Ministry says 38 Muslim Brotherhood members have been arrested in the past 24 hours.

5. Saudi Arabia’s latest attacks on Yemen have hit several targets in Ta’izz and Amran provinces.

6. Turkish police have raided the offices of Ankara-based media group Koza Ipek.

7. Police in southern Nepal have killed several members of an ethnic group demanding statehood in a draft constitution.

8. The International Organization for Migration says some 26-hundred asylum seekers have died in 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe.

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