The United States sent six F-16 jets and about 300 personnel to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey on August 9, the US military said, after Ankara agreed last month to allow American planes to launch air strikes against Islamic State militants from there.

China is under growing pressure to further stimulate its economy after disappointing data over the weekend showed another heavy fall in factory-gate prices and a surprise slump in exports.

Greek government officials discussed a draft of the country's third bailout agreement drawn up on the basis of discussions with EU/IMF lenders, a government official said on August 8, boosting hopes a deal could be wrapped up in days.

The father of a Palestinian toddler killed in an arson attack on his home a week ago died on August 8 of wounds sustained in the fire.

A powerful typhoon battered Taiwan with strong wind and torrential rain on August 8, cutting power to 2 million households and killing at least two people, media and officials said.

A suicide bomber killed dozens of cadets at a Kabul police academy and insurgents struck an area near a US special forces base on August 7 in a wave of attacks in the Afghan capital that began with a huge early morning truck bomb explosion.

A new bailout for Athens should be agreed by late August, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and French President Francois Hollande said on August 6.

Hopes faded of finding more survivors on August 6 from a shipwreck in which 200 migrants are feared drowned, as rescue ships were called to the aid of more migrant boats in the same area of the Mediterranean.

A truck bomb exploded near an army compound in the center of the Afghan capital on August 6, killing at least eight people and wounding close to 200, police and health ministry officials said.

A boat packed with up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya on August 5 and many were feared dead, officials and aid agencies said.