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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Sept. 3

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Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Tuesday said it launched a major offensive against Boko Haram terrorists in northeast Sambisa forest and hit vital targets.

Spokesperson for the Air Force, Commodore Dele Alonge, told Xinhua that the NAF has continued to hit vital targets with a view to decimating the capability and resolve of the members of the sect to continue to fight. (Nigeria-Offensive-Boko Haram)

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COPENHAGEN -- Foreign ministers of Nordic and Baltic countries (NB8) said here on Thursday that the roots of the migration crisis in Europe should be tackled to handle what they called an "unprecedented problem".

Addressing a press conference on the heels of the NB8 foreign ministers meeting, Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen said every country had its own history and culture to take into account when addressing this migration issue. (Denmark-EU Migrant Crisis)

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PARIS -- French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday agreed "on common proposals" to help address the refugees crisis, saying they would soon transmit their joint suggestions to the EU.

Facing "successive tragedies" and "thousands of victims (who) have died since the beginning of the year" trying to cross the Mediterranean, "the European Union must act decisively and in accordance with its values," Hollande and Merkel said. (France-Germany-EU Migrant Crisis)

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia Herman Prayitno said on Thursday that 14 Indonesian nationals were killed in a boat capsize incident off Malaysian coast of Selangor.

"Information from the Search and Rescue (SAR) team said that 20 have been recovered alive and 14 were found dead, consisted of 13 women and one man. The survivors were brought to Melintang police station while the bodies were kept in Teluk Intan hospital," Herman said in a statement published here. (Indonesia-Boat Capsize Incident)

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ADEN, Yemen -- Up to 30 people were killed and nearly 100 others injured when two suicide bombings targeted a Houthi-controlled mosque in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Wednesday evening, witnesses and a security source told Xinhua.

A security official of the country's interior ministry which is controlled by Houthis said that a Shiite mosque in Al-Jiraf district of Sanaa was hit by a suicide attack during prayers. Shortly after, a bomb-laden vehicle exploded when members of the public were helping victims. (Yemen-Suicide Bombing) Endi