News in Brief - Sun, Aug, 30, 2015 - 22:30 GMT

Migrants of several countries jump over a blade iron fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border of Roszke village on August 30, 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 PHOTO / CSABA SEGESVARI

1. Egypt will hold long-awaited parliamentary elections in two phases starting on October 18 and 19. 

2. An Egyptian court has sentenced nine members of the Muslim Brotherhood to life in jail.

3. Saudi airstrikes on a bottling plant in Yemen’s northern province of Hajjah have killed at least thirty six people. 

4. European interior ministers are to hold emergency talks on September 14 to improve the bloc's response to the current refugee crisis. 

5. The principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party has expressed support for President Barack Obama in negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran. 

6. ISIL terrorists have partly destroyed a temple in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra. 

7. Angry protesters in Lebanon have set Tuesday the deadline for the government to resolve Beirut’s waste disposal crisis.

8. Secret police in Nigeria have arrested a chief Boko Haram commander and a number of militants believed to be frontline members of the terrorist group.


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