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News in Brief - Sat, Sep, 5, 2015 - 04:30 GMT

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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir speaks during a news conference inside the Saudi Embassy on September 4, 2015, in Washington, DC. AFP

In Yemen, Ansarullah fighters and allied army troops have killed nearly 70 Emirati, Saudi and Bahraini soldiers. The United Arab Emirates suffered the most casualties, losing 45 soldiers when a missile hit an ammunition depot in the eastern province of Ma’rib.
Saudi warplanes have killed a mother and her child after targeting a residential area in the south of Yemeni capital Sana’a. Saudi airstrikes earlier hit a military site in the city. Riyadh’s onslaught against Yemen has so far claimed the lives of more than 51-hundred people, mostly women and children.
A Saudi policeman and a gunman have been killed in an exchange of fire in the kingdom’s Eastern Province. Officials say the shootout began after the attacker tried to infiltrate a security forces compound in the Abqaiq region. This is the second such attack in Saudi Arabia over the past few weeks.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has blamed Europe for the death of a 3-year-old Syrian boy whose body was washed ashore Turkey on Wednesday. Rousseff hailed Brazil as a country which she says has welcomed people from all over the world.
In Hungary, anti-refugee protesters have attacked asylum seekers stranded outside the main train station of the capital Budapest. The refugees formed human chains to protect women and children. Meanwhile, police have arrested and returned some 300 refugees, who broke out of a refugee reception center on the Serbian border.
A petition which urges the British government to arrest the Israeli prime minister upon his arrival to London has garnered nearly 100-thousand signatures. British lawmakers will be obliged to debate the petition if it gains 100-thousand signatures. London says it will not comply with signatories’ demand.
The British Prime Minister has warned Catalonia against independence from Spain. David Cameron said if Catalonia breaks away from Spain it will be at the quote-back of the queue to get back in the European Union. He made the remarks in a visit to Madrid.
Bahraini anti-regime protesters have held rallies in several villages in solidarity with the jailed political activists including the head of al-Wefaq Society. Sheikh Ali Salman was detained last December on charges of quote-collusion with foreign governments and instigating unrest in the Persian Gulf kingdom.

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