World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

European Union interior ministers will hold a new emergency meeting on the EU's migration crisis on September 22, officials have announced, a day after the bloc failed to agree on plans to relocate tens of thousands of refugees.

ELSEWHERE:

EDIRNE, Turkey - At least 22 Greece-bound migrants have drowned after their boat sank off Turkey, as police blocked hundreds of others seeking to find an alternative route to Europe by land.

LONDON - A spokesman for Vladimir Putin has rejected Elton John's claim that the Russian president phoned him after the musician requested a meeting to discuss Russia's anti-gay environment.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Three people are dead and others are injured after a seaplane belonging to a fishing lodge crashed with 10 people on board in southwest Alaska.

WASHINGTON - Eight people have been killed and five are listed as missing after flash floods struck a town in the western state of Utah.

BEIRUT - Rebel rocket fire into regime-held districts of Syria's northern city of Aleppo has reportedly killed at least 38 people, including 14 children.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe - The professional hunter who helped an American dentist kill Zimbabwe's popular lion Cecil has been arrested for his alleged link with an illegal operation to smuggle 29 sable antelope out of the country.

HARARE - Zimbabwe's 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe has read the wrong speech at the opening of a new session of parliament, repeating an address he gave to the legislature last month.


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