News in Brief - Fri, Sep, 04, 2015 - 21:30 GMT

1. Saudi warplanes have launched multiple airstrikes on a military site in the Yemeni capital Sana'a.

2. Bahrain says five of its soldiers have been killed while protecting the southern borders of Saudi Arabia.

3. Two car bomb explosions have killed at least eight people and wounded over 20 others south of the Syrian capita Damascus.

4. US President Barack Obama has announced he will discuss the possibility of a political transition in Syria during a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman at the White House.

5. More than a thousand refugees, stranded at the Hungarian capital’s main train station, have left the station to walk on foot to the Austrian border.

6. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says the influx of refugees to Europe is the continent’s most important challenge for the coming years.

7. Over 370-thousand people have signed a petition, urging the British government to host more Syrian refugees.

8. A petition which urges the British government to arrest the Israeli prime minister upon his arrival to London has garnered nearly 100-thousand signatures.

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