World News Update, what you need to know

Heavily armed Iraqi peshmerga forces have reached the Turkish border and a first group have entered the Syrian town of Kobane as they prepare to join fellow Kurds battling the Islamic State group.

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OUAGADOUGOU - Burkina Faso's army has seized power, with the armed forces chief announcing the dissolution of government and parliament and the creation of a transitional body to run the country after violent protests against the president's 27-year-rule.

JERUSALEM - Clashes have raged in east Jerusalem after Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian accused of trying to kill a Jewish hardliner, as Al-Aqsa mosque compound was closed for the first time in decades.

JAKARTA - The girlfriend of an Australian man who faces up to 20 years in an Indonesian jail has told his trial she didn't know he had a drug habit.

ISTANBUL - Hopes are fading of saving 18 miners trapped by a flood in a mine in southern Turkey, the energy minister has acknowledged, blaming negligence for the country's latest mining tragedy.

KOSLANDA - Heavy rains have disrupted a massive search for scores of people feared buried in a landslide on a Sri Lankan tea estate, further dimming prospects of finding anyone alive.

WASHINGTON - A US nurse who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Africa has taken a bike ride despite a state order to stay at home in quarantine.