Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Aug. 28

Mississippi State University on Thursday said a suspected shooter was taken into custody, just minutes after an alert was issued to tell students to seek shelter due to the active shooter situation.(US-University-Shooting)

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BRUSSELS -- The European Union (EU) and Ukraine held gas talks on Thursday in Vienna, said a press release by the European Commission.

"The meeting was conducted in a constructive atmosphere and focused on the necessary actions to ensure stable gas supplies to Ukraine and via Ukraine to the EU during winter," said the press release.

(EU-Ukraine-Gas Talks)

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EISENSTADT, Austria -- A truck with Hungarian license plates parked at the side of the highway to Vienna early Thursday morning was discovered to have dozens of dead bodies inside, Austrian police said on Thursday.

The police told Xinhua all the bodies were those of refugees. There were no survivors. The number of the dead had not yet been identified. (Austria-Truck-Bodies)

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TBILISI -- Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili and visiting NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday launched a joint training center of troops in Georgia.

The facility, known as NATO-Georgia Joint Training and Evaluation Center (JTEC), is located in Krtsanisi, near Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. (Georgia-NATO-Training Center)

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ASTANA -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Thursday signed an agreement with Kazakhstan in the Kazakh capital of Astana to establish the world's first low enriched uranium (LEU) bank, according to an IAEA news release. (Kazakhstan-IAEA-Deal) Endi