World News in Brief: September 1

An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude jolted Myanmar's Sagaing region late Saturday (August 31), with damages reported. Due to the Saturday's quake, some pagodas including Chantharya Pagoda in Ye-U township and a pagoda in Shwebo township were seriously damaged, said an official from Sagaing Region Fire Services Department.

* Thousands of demonstrators on Saturday took to the streets across Britain in protest against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament. Further mass demonstrations are expected when MPs return to Westminster on September 3.

* French President Emmanuel Macron and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had a conversation on phone on Saturday and will stay on close contact in coming days, the French presidency announced in a press release.

* A senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) warned on Saturday that the hopes for talks with the United States are fading, and Washington should be blamed for pushing Pyongyang to reconsider its measures.

* Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has modified a decree that banned outdoor fires across the country for 60 days. The original decree was issued on August 29, and the modified version was published on an extra edition of the Government Gazette August 30 night.

* Iran's navy will stage a war game in the Caspian Sea in near future, Commander of the Iranian Navy Hossein Khanzadi said on Saturday. The four-day military drill is codenamed "Sustainable Security and Power," Khanzadi was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.

* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in Warsaw on Saturday that Poland is Ukraine's second-largest trading partner in the European Union, and the potential of bilateral cooperation has no limits, according to a statement from the Ukrainian president's official website.

* The leader of British opposition Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, on Saturday said the coming days are the "last chance" to stop a no-deal Brexit before British parliament is suspended under Prime Minister Boris Johnson's controversial plans.

* At least 50 rebels, mainly commanders, were killed on Saturday by US-led airstrikes that targeted a meeting of rebel commanders in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

* Morocco's navy coast guards rescued 247 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea on Friday night and Saturday, the Moroccan army said in a statement.

* An Iranian deputy foreign minister said Saturday that the United States has shown "some flexibility" over Iran's oil sales, state TV reported.

* Turkey will proceed with its own plan of action if the Turkish soldiers do not take control of the safe zone in northeastern Syria soon, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday.

* Forces of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) were deployed in several parts of Yemen's strategic port city of Aden on Saturday, following simultaneous terror attacks, a security official told Xinhua.

* Danish Arbejdernes Landsbank, one of the seven largest banks in Denmark with over 250,000 customers, has admitted that it has accidentally leaked their customers' secret addresses.

* At least four people died in a helicopter crash outside Alta municipality in northern Norway, Norwegian media reported Saturday.

* The number of companies established by Syrians in Turkey has increased to 10,000 since 2011 when the Syrian civil war started, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported Saturday.

* Hurricane Dorian, a category 4 storm packing 145 mph (233 kph) winds as of early Saturday, is now expected to hit the Carolinas in southern United States next week, the US National Hurricane Center said Saturday. The storm is now expected to make landfall in the Carolinas on Wednesday (September 4) evening, according to an ABC News report.

* At least 50 prisoners of war were killed when the Saudi-led coalition launched a series of airstrikes overnight on a prison in Yemen's central province of Dhamar, the Houthi-controlled health ministry said in a statement early Sunday (September 1) morning.

* The death toll from a bar fire attack on August 27 in eastern Mexico has reached 30, local authorities said on August 31. Four gunmen set fire to the Caballo Blanco Bar in the coastal city on August 27 night, then blocked its exits. The motive of the arson was not immediately clear.

* One person was killed and eight others wounded during a knife attack at a subway station near Lyon in southeast France on Saturday afternoon. The motive of the attack is unknown yet, according to authorities and media reports.

* At least nine police officers and one journalist were killed in a suicide bomb blast which followed day-long clashes between security forces and Taliban militants in northern Afghan Kunduz city on Saturday, sources said.

Xinhua