Myanmar President U Thein Sein on September 15 said the government will make every effort to ensure a free and fair general election on November 8.

Thai police’s chief Somyot Poompanmoung on September 15 pointed to the Turkish-speaking Muslim Uighur minority in China as the suspected group behind the Bangkok bombing on August 17 that killed 20 people. 

The 30th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) opened in Geneva on September 14 with a busy agenda for its 17 scheduled days. 

Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield at the center of a military buildup in Syria, two US officials said on September 14, adding that the intentions of Moscow's latest deployment of heavy military equipment were unclear.

The Myanmar government has invited two armed ethnic minority groups to sign the national ceasefire agreement (NCA), according to an official announcement on September 14. 

Germany re-imposed border controls on September 13 after Europe's most powerful nation acknowledged it could scarcely cope with thousands of asylum seekers arriving every day.

Kurdish militants killed two police officers in a car bomb attack on a checkpoint in southeast Turkey on September 13, as authorities imposed a curfew in the region's largest city Diyarbakir where clashes broke out, security sources said.

At least 16 Yemeni civilians including ten people from a single family were killed in nationwide air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition on September 12, medics in three provinces said.

Germany and other western European powers need to work with Russia as well as the United States to solve the crisis in Syria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on September 12.

Finance ministers of member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ended their 22nd meeting on September 11 after launching the Cebu Action Plan (CAP), a roadmap for a more sustainable financial future for the Asia-Pacific region.