Iran's Supreme Leader said on September 3 he favored a parliamentary vote on its nuclear deal reached with world powers and called for sanctions against Tehran to be lifted completely rather than suspended, state television reported.

Migrants forced from a train in Hungary scuffled with helmeted riot police and some clung to railway tracks on September 3, as politicians across Europe struggled to respond to public opinion appalled by images of a drowned 3-year-old boy.

Activity in Japan's services sector expanded at the fastest pace in almost two years in August, a survey showed on September 3, as companies turned more optimistic on business conditions in a sign the economy may be bouncing back.

President Barack Obama on September 2 secured the 34th Senate vote needed to sustain a veto of any congressional resolution disapproving a nuclear deal with Iran, ensuring the accord will not fail in the US Congress.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would launch a US$10 billion initiative to tackle drug and alcohol addiction, a problem she speaks of often on the campaign trail and which affects 23 million Americans.

Hundreds of migrants poured overnight onto the high-speed railway linking Paris with London near the French port of Calais, stranding passengers in darkness aboard Eurostar trains.

Supporters of the international nuclear agreement with Iran moved within one vote of mustering enough support to protect the deal in the US Congress on September 1 when two more Democratic senators said they would support the pact.

A heavily produced propaganda video from Islamic State purports to show a newly minted form of coin currency for use within territory IS militants have claimed.

A Ukrainian national guardsman was killed and nearly 90 others wounded by grenades hurled from a crowd of nationalist protesters on August 31 as they were guarding parliament where lawmakers backed giving more autonomy to rebel-held areas.

The Iraqi government says it has recaptured the desert area to the west of Samarra from Islamic State forces, and says the operation will move down to recapture Anbar.