Powell's leaked emails: Israel has 200 nukes

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

• An urgent Security Council meeting on Syria is cancelled amid disagreements between Russia and the US over sharing the Syria truce documents. Russia says the US refused to share the documents at the last minute. Washington says it could not agree with Moscow on how to brief the council.
   
• Russia says the Syrian army is the only side currently abiding by the ceasefire agreement in the war-torn country. This comes as the Syrian forces have come under militants' shelling in the capital city of Damascus. The latest violation of the truce left a number of people wounded.
   
• In Syria, US-backed militants drive out a group of American troops from a village near the Turkish border, over Washington’s support for Kurds fighting Daesh. The Free Syrian army militants called the US commandos crusaders, infidels and dogs. The militants also chanted anti-US slogans.
   
• Leaked emails of former US secretary of state Colin Powell reveal that Israel possesses 200 nuclear weapons aimed at Iran. In his emails, Powell has also rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim in his 2012 UN speech that said Tehran was only a year away from making a nuclear bomb.
   
• A new report by a group of rights activists and academics says over 3,000 out of more than 8,600 Saudi airstrikes in Yemen have hit civilian facilities. The report listed 147 air raids on Yemeni schools, 114 on markets, 34 on mosques and 26 on universities.
   
• European Council President Donald Tusk says European Union leaders will not compromise the bloc’s principles during negotiations on Britain’s exit from the EU. Tusk also reiterated that talks with Britain could not kick off without a formal notification by the British government.
   
• US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has finally acknowledged that Barack Obama was born in America, after his years-long questioning of the president's birthplace. Trump further accused his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of initiating the so-called birther controversy in 2008. Clinton and her campaign have strongly denied that allegation.
   
• The UN weather agency predicts that 2016 will be the hottest year on record. It called on world leaders to urgently implement the 2015 Paris climate change agreement. The weather agency also said that temperatures in August this year equaled to that of July, which is normally the hottest month of the year.

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