This is a big deal. The refugee crisis has apparently caused Germany to reinstate controls along a border that had long been totally open. “Germany introduced border controls on Sunday, and dramatically halted all train traffic with Austria, after the country’s regions said they could no longer cope with the overwhelming number of refugees entering the country. Interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, announced the measures after German officials said record numbers of refugees, most of them from Syria, had stretched the system to breaking point. “This step has become necessary,” he told a press conference in Berlin, adding it would cause disruption. Asylum seekers must understand “they cannot chose the states where they are seeking protection,” he told reporters. All trains between Austria and Bavaria, the principal conduit through which 450,000 refugees have arrived in Germany this year, ceased at 5pm Berlin time. Only EU citizens and others with valid documents would be allowed to pass through Germany’s borders, de Maizière said.’ The decision means that Germany has effectively exited temporarily from the Schengen system. It is likely to lead to chaotic scenes on the Austrian-German border, as tens of thousands of refugees try to enter Germany by any means possible and set up camp next to it.” (Guardian http://bit.ly/1KkAk9g)
Mexican Tourists Killed in Egypt…Egypt’s police and military killed 12 Egyptians and Mexicans and injured 10 when they accidentally shot at a Mexican tourist convoy whilst engaging militants in the country’s western desert, the ministry of interior said on Monday. (NYT http://nyti.ms/1KkzUQf)
The New York Times Discovers the War in Yemen…”More than 4,500 people have been killed in the war. Hundreds have died in street battles between the Houthis and their rivals for control of Yemen’s most important cities, like Taiz and Aden, where residents have accused the Houthis in particular of resorting to brutal force. The ground war and harsh Saudi restrictions on imports have deepened humanitarian suffering in Yemen, causing shortages of fuel, water and medical supplies while inflating prices of food and other goods. The majority of civilians have been killed by coalition warplanes, often dropping American munitions ranging from 250 to 2,000 pounds. There are no comprehensive tallies of the deaths. But the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner said on Friday that of 1,527 civilians who died between the start of the Saudi offensive and June 30, at least 941 people were killed by airstrikes.” (NYT http://nyti.ms/1KkABsM)
Africa
Suicide bombers attacked a northern Cameroon town on Sunday morning, killing at least seven people and severely wounding 18, a local official said. (AP http://yhoo.it/1OoJJ1i)
Unidentified attackers ambushed a police post in the central Mopti region of Mali on Saturday, killing two police officers standing guard, an army spokesman said. (Reuters http://bit.ly/1Y0YN9F)
Democratic Republic of Congo’s leading opposition party said on Sunday it was breaking off talks with representatives of President Joseph Kabila, leaving the two sides deadlocked ahead of next year’s presidential election. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1Y0Yvzu)
South Sudan’s rebels and government say they will both send senior officials to a special meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on September 29. (VOA http://bit.ly/1gkn4Wd)
A South African school principal, bludgeoned to death 25 years ago for refusing to take part in a witchcraft-related ritual, was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, moving him a step closer to sainthood. (Reuters http://bit.ly/1OoJGmf)
Mozambique’s opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama escaped unhurt after his convoy was hit by gunfire as he returned from a rally in the central Manica province, police said Sunday. (AFP http://yhoo.it/1gkn6x5)
West Africa’s ECOWAS regional bloc on Saturday extended a security force in Guinea-Bissau into 2016 to help protect state institutions amid a political crisis that has left the country without a government. (AFP http://yhoo.it/1Y0Vhfx)
MENA
Clashes broke out Sunday morning between Israeli police and Palestinians at the Al Aqsa mosque compound, leaving more than 20 Palestinians injured and damaging the windows and carpet of the mosque, according to police and Palestinian officials. (LAT http://lat.ms/1KkzCJd)
Russian forces are expanding the tarmac of a major airport in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar Assad and his minority sect, a prominent Syrian monitoring group said Sunday. (AP http://yhoo.it/1Y0Y5Jz)
Yemen’s exiled government said it would not attend planned UN-brokered peace talks unless Shiite rebels first agree to withdraw from territory they have captured in accordance with a UN resolution. (AFP http://yhoo.it/1Y0Yz2j)
A U.N. special envoy says Libya’s rival governments have reached a “consensus” on the main elements of a political agreement. (AP http://yhoo.it/1K7Nvai)
Asia
Indian police said on Sunday they were hunting for the owner of illegally stored explosives which accidentally detonated in the center of a crowded town, killing at least 88 people. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1Y0YQSV)
A powerful bomb went off in central Pakistan Sunday evening, killing at least 10 people and injuring around 60 others, police and witnesses said. (VOA http://bit.ly/1KkzGZs)
The Americas
Chileans took to the streets Sunday to honor the victims of Augusto Pinochet’s 1973-1990 regime and to demand the closure of a special “luxury” prison for ex-dictatorship officials. (AFP http://yhoo.it/1Y0Y8Fg)
An opposition group that has led recent anti-government protests in Honduras says it rejects creation of a national commission using foreign judges and prosecutors to investigate corruption. It says only an international commission is acceptable. (AP http://yhoo.it/1K7NCT7)
The United States is expressing outrage at the jailing of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. (VOA http://bit.ly/1K7NyTk)
A rapidly spreading wildfire has destroyed hundreds of structures as it roars through the northern California towns of Middletown and Cobb, chasing thousands of residents from their homes in and around those communities, fire officials said on Sunday. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1K7NvXL)
…and the rest
Record temperatures and changes to climate patterns in the world’s oceans are among signs that a global warming pause is coming to an end, Britain’s Met Office said in a report on Monday. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1gknD24)
Thirty-four refugees, almost half of them babies and children, drowned when their boat sank off a Greek island on Sunday, almost certainly the largest death toll in those waters since the migrant crisis began, the coastguard said. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1gkn3S8)
Munich mayor Dieter Reiter vowed he would not give up in the face of the daunting challenge posed by a record influx of refugees, but made a plea on Sunday to give his city a chance to catch its breath. (AFP http://yhoo.it/1Y0Y5sX)
Germany reintroduced border controls on Sunday after admitting it could no longer cope with a record influx of migrants and refugees, raising the stakes ahead of a key EU meeting on sharing the burden of the crisis across the bloc. (AFP http://yhoo.it/1gknFHa)
Austrian authorities said they were expecting another wave of migrants and refugees coming over the border from Hungary on Sunday, after a brief lull in arrivals gave them a chance to re-stock reception centers. (Reuters http://yhoo.it/1OoJIuh)
Opinion/Blogs
5 Hillary Clinton emails you actually should read (Devex http://bit.ly/1Y11hF1)
We Must Stop Xenophobic Attacks On Refugees to Avoid More Conflicts, War (Nation http://bit.ly/1OoHX0c)
Kenya: Who and How ICC Witnesses Were Bribed (The Star http://bit.ly/1KkpLTD)
Analysis: Singaporeans fall back on tried and tested party (AP http://yhoo.it/1Y0Ywnd)
South Sudan: Why a Political Crackdown Accompanies a Peace Agreement (Reinventing Peace http://bit.ly/1Y113Ob)
Development must target the millions of children affected by humanitarian crises (Guardian http://bit.ly/1M5vjkv)
Why Australia is Accepting so Few Syrian Refugees (UN Dispatch http://bit.ly/1FGtDcp)
Are developing country institutions a help or a hindrance to post-2015 financing? (Devex http://bit.ly/1K7PV8R)
The Powerful Photos That Rocked Getty Images’ First Instagram Grant (Goats and Soda http://n.pr/1K7OJST)
Who are Uighurs? A look at group from restive China region (AP http://yhoo.it/1Ny3moz)