French police fired tear gas and water cannon at migrants and protesters who gathered in defiance of a ban on October 1 outside the shanty town near Calais known as "the Jungle", local authorities said.

Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its air campaign, a Russian newspaper reported on September 30 as the United States said diplomacy to halt the violence was "on life support" but not dead yet.

A summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) leaders set for Islamabad in November has been postponed indefinitely, the Pakistani government said on September 30, amid rising tension between arch-rivals India and Pakistan.

The United States is close to suspending talks with Russia on a ceasefire in Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on September 29, as the Kremlin vowed to press on with an assault on the city of Aleppo.

A commuter train plowed into a station in New Jersey at the height of September 29's morning rush hour, killing one person on the platform and injuring more than 100 as it brought down part of the roof and scattered debris over the concourse.

Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked two hospitals out of service in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo on September 28 and ground forces intensified an assault in a battle which the United Nations said had made the city worse than a slaughterhouse. 

The United States will send around 600 new troops to Iraq to assist local forces in the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State that is expected later this year, US and Iraqi officials said on September 28.

Turkey's National Security Council will propose extending the state of emergency introduced after the failed coup in July, it said on September 28, a move expected since President Tayyip Erdogan floated the idea.

Colombia's Marxist ELN rebels said on September 28 they were ready to start formal peace talks with the government and resolve issues that have so far stymied the negotiations announced in March.

Democrat Hillary Clinton sought on September 27 to keep Republican rival Donald Trump on the defensive a day after their first US presidential debate with accusations he is a sexist, racist and tax dodger, while Trump suggested he would "hit her harder" by bringing up her husband's infidelity.