News in Brief - Mon, Aug, 31, 2015 - 21:30 GMT

A volunteer distributes water to migrants on a train from Budapest to Munich at the Austrian - Hungarian border in Hegyeshalom on August 31, 2015. Austrian security forces stopped two trains with several hundreds migrants on board near the border with Hungary on Monday, a police spokesman said, just hours after authorities in Budapest let them leave despite many not having the right visas to travel in the EU. AFP PHOTO/ VLADIMIR SIMICEK

1. A train from Hungary carrying hundreds of asylum seekers has reached the German city of Munich.

2. The European Union says it will take action to tackle the deepening refugee crisis.

3. Ukrainian president says those behind the deadly violence that erupted during a protest in Kiev must be severely punished. 

4. At least 12 civilians have been killed in the latest airstrikes in Ma’rib and Sa'ada provinces. 

5. South Sudan’s Rebel Chief General Riek Machar has accused the government of violating the ceasefire signed between two sides on Wednesday.

6. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says extremism and terrorism are the biggest threats to the Islamic community. 

7. Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has called for measures to promote peace and security in the world.

8. The fate of nearly two hundred Iraqi protesters abducted by Daesh terrorists is still not known. 


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