North Korea fired two cruise missiles early Wednesday morning, from the coastal town of Onchon into waters off its west coast, according to a South Korean Defense Ministry official.

Explosions and fires ripped through at least 17 locations in southern Thailand on Wednesday, authorities said, in what appeared to be multiple coordinated attacks that injured seven people.

South Korea plans to become one of the world's top four weapons suppliers, President Yoon Suk Yeol said Wednesday as he addressed reporters in a speech marking his first 100 days in office.

China's Sichuan province has ordered all factories to shut down for six days to ease a power shortage in the region as a scorching heat wave sweeps across the country.

A growing number of US citizens are being detained in Venezuela -- and though exactly how many is unknown, the detentions could give authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro leverage in frosty relations with Washington.

Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga has spoken for the first time since he lost the election saying his coalition "totally and without reservations reject the presidential results" in a televised address on Tuesday.

Greek police said on Monday they had located 38 Syrian refugees in the Lavara area of Evros, among them one pregnant woman and seven children.

UK workers have suffered the biggest drop in their spending power in more than 20 years as prices keep soaring.

The wood-walled conference room has a sterile quality, and the men in muted suits seated around the wide central table are eerily alike, as if duplicated. But this photograph of a high-level corporate meeting has one outlier -- a woman with short, curled hair seated on the far left. She lines up perfectly with the group's symmetry, but she's conspicuous in her jewel-toned blue dress, her bare legs visible below the hem.

A Chinese research ship docked at a southern Sri Lankan port Beijing leases from the government on Tuesday, officials said, despite security concerns raised by India about the vessel's presence in nearby waters.