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News in Brief - Fri, Aug, 28, 2015 - 11:30 GMT

Friday, 28 August 2015 1:15 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 28 August 2015 1:16 PM ]

1. Rescue workers are collecting the bodies of migrants from the water after two boats packed with asylum seekers capsized off the Libyan coastal city of Zuwarah. So far 76 corpses have been retrieved. The Libyan coast guards have managed to rescue 201 people.

2. Austria says the bodies of over 71 migrants have been recovered from an abandoned truck near the Hungarian border. Police say the dead asylum seekers are probably Syrian refugees. They added that three suspects have been arrested in Hungary in connection with the incident.

3. At least ten people have been killed and over 50 others injured after Indian and Pakistan troops exchanged fire across the disputed border in the Kashmir region. The fighting comes less than a week after planned high-level talks between New Delhi and Islamabad were aborted amid tensions over Kashmir.

4. At least 6 Iraqi bomb squad officers have been killed as they were trying to defuse a car bomb near a police station in capital Baghdad. Nearly a dozen others were injured and taken to hospital. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident so far.

5. Fresh clashes between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia militias have left eight people dead around the city of Donetsk. Seven victims are soldiers. The sides reached a ceasefire deal at a summit in the Belarusian capital Minsk in February. Since then, they have engaged in fighting many times.

6. The United Nations refugee agency says several thousand people have been forced to flee their homes following days of clashes in the Central African Republic town of Bambari. Violence flared up in the country on August 20 after Christian militants beheaded a Muslim teenager. The beheading prompted a retaliatory attack by Muslims.

7. In Lebanon, members of the so-called You Stink campaign have taken to the streets of capital Beirut to call for a quick solution to the issue of rubbish accumulation across the city. The campaign was launched after the government closed its largest landfill on July 17 due to overcapacity.

8. Chilean police have used water cannons to end a clash between truck-drivers and Mapuche Indians in the capital Santiago. The truck drivers were towing vehicles they said were torched by Mapuche radical groups in the Araucania region. The Mapuche community demands a return of their ancestral lands and autonomous rule.

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