* The "catastrophic" Hurricane Dorian, now reaching the highest Category 5, made a landfall on Elbow Cay in Abaco Islands in the Bahamas, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest update Sunday.
* China's national observatory on Sunday issued a blue alert for rainstorms in parts of south and east China from now to Monday (September 2) night. Until 8 p.m. Monday, heavy rain and rainstorms are expected to hit areas including Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Anhui and Jiangsu, the National Meteorological Center said.
* The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier fired a broadside on Sunday at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson by insisting the Irish border backstop must stay. Johnson has demanded that the backstop, a Brussels-insisted mechanism to ensure there is no hard EU frontier on the island of Ireland, must go as part of a new Brexit deal.
* At least 130 prisoners were presumed dead when a Saudi-led airstrike hit a detention facility in Yemen's central province of Dhamar, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement on Sunday night.
* Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his Swedish counterpart Margot Wallstrom on Sunday underlined the need for ensuring that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) can continue to provide services to Palestinian refugees.
* The cease-fire that was declared recently by the Syrian army in the last major rebel stronghold in the northwestern province of Idlib is "temporary," Syria's presidential advisor Buthaina Shabaan said.
* US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Belgium to meet European leaders on Transatlantic ties, said the US State Department on Sunday.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his country is ready to launch another attack at Hezbollah in Lebanon after fire exchanges broke out along the Lebanese border.
* The United Nations Higher Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) on Sunday said that 10,500 displaced Libyans have received humanitarian aid since the armed conflict began in April in and around Libya's capital Tripoli.
* Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri called upon the international community on Sunday to interfere to prevent further escalations on the southern border between Lebanon and Israel.
* More than 100 people were killed in Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on a prison in Yemen's central province of Dhamar, the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Sanaa said on Sunday.
* Iraqi President Barham Salih on Sunday gave praise to the United Nations (UN) for supporting Iraq's democratic establishment, a presidency statement said. The comments came when the president received the UN top envoy to Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert in his office.
* An emergency meeting will be held next Tuesday in Cairo to discuss supporting the renewal of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) mandate and its financial crisis, a Palestinian official said Sunday.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to annex the settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The remarks were made during a speech in a ceremony for the opening of the school year at a state religious primary school in the settlement of Elkana.
* Two policemen were injured as a crude bomb exploded next to a Bangladeshi minister's car on a capital Dhaka street on Saturday night, a local police official said Sunday morning.
