At least four suspected militants said to be of Turkmen origin in North Waziristan were killed in a U.S. airstrike on Aug. 31, local security officials and intelligence sources said, Dawn reported.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Aug. 30 he has not made a final decision on how the United States will respond to the alleged Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria, though he is considering a narrow, limited act, Reuters reported.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon will meet with British, Chinese, French, Russian and U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations on Aug. 30 after he cut short a trip to Europe, a U.N. spokesman said, AFP reported.
The international community must respond to the suspected use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime, but NATO will not take part, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Aug. 30, AFP reported.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon ordered a team of U.N. inspectors to leave Syria on Aug. 30, fearing an imminent U.S. attack on the country, Times of Israel and AP reported.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos ordered the army to patrol Bogota beginning Aug. 30 because of violent agricultural protests Aug. 29, El Universal reported.
U.S. energy firm Apache Corp. will sell a 33 percent stake in its oil and natural gas business in Egypt to the China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., also known as Sinopec, for $3.1 billion, Reuters reported Aug. 30.
U.S. President Barack Obama's decision on Syria will be informed by the interests of the United States, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council said Aug. 29, Politico reported.
