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South Korean officials say North Korea test-fired what appears to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile off its eastern coast.

For nearly 30 years, Aung San Suu Kyi starred as arguably the world's most prominent and revered political prisoner, a courageous champion of human rights and democracy in her military-ruled nation.

Authorities El Salvador have arrested five police officers and five civilians for alleged ties to a death squad that killed as many as 40 gang members in the eastern part of the country.

The family of Pakistan's legendary philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi says he has died at a hospital in Karachi.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday blamed sanctions imposed by Western countries for his government's failure to pay salaries on time, in his first public comments after a week of unrest in the county.

Tata Steel says it is talking to firms including Germany's Thyssenkrupp about a potential joint venture in Europe — effectively halting a plan to sell off its British businesses.

A German newspaper and two broadcasters are reporting that prosecutors have opened proceedings that could result in Volkswagen being fined in Germany over its diesel emissions scandal.

Cuba's parliament convened Friday for one of its twice-annual plenary sessions amid warnings from government officials that the country needs to cut energy use and as hopes among many islanders for deepened economic reforms.

The U.S. Central Command says the military has conducted two counterterrorism airstrikes targeting al-Qaida's branch in southern Yemen this month, killing four al-Qaida operatives.

A Colombian official says that two units of the country's largest guerrilla army are balking at plans for them to disarm — raising possible problems for a peace treaty the government is negotiating with rebel leaders.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi says his country will align its maritime silk road project with Sri Lanka's development plans to enable the island nation to become a shipping hub in the Indian Ocean.

Indian officials say government forces have killed the top rebel commander in their part of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.

France's interior minister says he doesn't see a need for a drastic overhaul of counterterrorism and intelligence services, despite security failures before Islamic extremist attacks on Paris last year.

Witnesses said heavy gunfire erupted outside the compound of South Sudan's president Friday evening as Salva Kiir was preparing to address the nation on the latest deadly fighting in the capital.

Henry Pryor, who has helped people buy homes in London for more than 30 years, says only war would be a bigger threat to the housing market than the conditions it faces now after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

Nigeria's military says a suicide bomber has detonated inside a mosque in the country's northeast, killing six worshippers and himself.

Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained six more suspects in connection with the attack at Istanbul's airport that killed at least 44 people.

Syrian opposition activists say airstrikes on a village in northwestern Syria have killed more than 20 people and wounded dozens.

Nigerian oil militants say they have blown up a crude oil pipeline belonging to Italian oil company Agip in Bayelsa state.

Britain is lifting a ban on women serving in frontline combat roles in the army, Prime Minister David Cameron announced Friday.