Unprecedented rain in Japan unleashed heavy floods on September 11 that tore houses from their foundations, uprooted trees and forced more than 100,000 people from their homes.

US President Barack Obama achieved perhaps the greatest foreign policy victory of his six years in office on September 10, when a Republican-backed effort to kill the Iran nuclear agreement was narrowly blocked in the US Senate, clearing the way for the deal's implementation.

President Barack Obama has directed his administration to prepare to take in at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, the White House said on September 10.

European Union chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker appealed to European countries on September 9 to share out a wave of refugees crowding in on their frontiers, but at the same time promised tougher border controls to keep unwanted migrants out.

Hungary's planned new transit zones near the Serbian border will be closed off from the rest of Hungary but migrants whose asylum requests are rejected will be returned to Serbia, a senior Hungarian ruling Fidesz party lawmaker said on September 9.

Russian forces have begun participating in military operations in Syria in support of government troops, three Lebanese sources familiar with the political and military situation there said on September 9.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) nations are at a stage where one more round of ministerial talks will lead to an agreement on remaining issues, according to the text of a message presented at an event organized by Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Tokyo.

President Barack Obama on September 8 secured 42 votes in the US Senate for the international nuclear deal with Iran, more than enough to keep Congress from passing a resolution disapproving of the pact.

Families torn apart by the Korean War six decades ago are to reunite briefly near the heavily fortified border of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (RoK) next month under a deal reached between the two sides on September 8, according to a statement from the RoK.

Ten Turkish police officers were killed in a bomb attack on a minibus in the eastern Turkish province of Igdir on September 8, a government official told Reuters.