#BREAKING South Korea president vows 'stern response' to North Korea missile launch
#BREAKING US Indo-Pacific Command condemns North Korea missile launch
#BREAKING White House says consulting allies on 'robust' responses to North Korea launch
#UPDATE North Korea has fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, prompting Tokyo to activate the country's missile alert system and order people to take shelter
#AFPGraphics on North Korea's missile launches and nuclear tests with monthly data since 2012
#BREAKING US, S. Korea conduct 'precision bombing drill' after N. Korea missile launched
#UPDATE South Korean and US fighter jets carried out precision bombing drills on Tuesday, Seoul's military said, in response to North Korea firing an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile over Japan
#UPDATE South Korean and US fighter jets carried out a "precision bombing drill" in response to North Korea firing a ballistic missile over Japan, Seoul's military said Tuesday, with F-15Ks dropping joint direct attack munitions over a Yellow Sea target ▶️ u.afp.com/iJDo
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Elite Indonesian police officers are under investigation over a stadium stampede that killed 125 people including dozens of children in one of the deadliest disasters in football history
#BREAKING Iran's Khamenei accuses United States, Israel of stoking 'riots'
#UPDATE Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused arch-foes the United States and Israel of fomenting unrest in the Islamic republic following the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini
#UPDATE Anger over the death of Mahsa Amini has sparked the biggest wave of protests to rock the Islamic republic in almost three years, which saw security forces in Tehran crack down on hundreds of university students overnight u.afp.com/iJsT
#BREAKING Sweden's Svante Paabo wins Nobel Medicine Prize
#UPDATE Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paaabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the #Nobel Medicine Prize
#BREAKING Indonesia chief security minister says 'action must be taken' over stampede deaths
#UPDATE Indonesia's chief security minister calls on police to identify and punish whoever is responsible for a stampede that left 125 people dead after officers fired tear gas in a packed football stadium.
"We asked them to unveil who has perpetrated the crimes," says Mahfud MD
#BREAKING Polls close in polarized Brazil race between Lula, Bolsonaro
#UPDATE Brazilians voted in a polarizing presidential election which front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hopes to take in the first round as incumbent Jair Bolsonaro says he will accept the result if it is "clean." u.afp.com/iJMa
Supporters of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro rally in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro awaiting results of the polarizing Brazilian presidential election.
Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly alleged fraud in the voting system, says he will accept the result if it is "clean"
#UPDATE After a campaign that left the South American giant deeply divided, all eyes are on whether ex-president Lula can win in a single round and whether Bolsonaro, who has alleged fraud in Brazil's electronic voting system, will accept the result.
#UPDATE "We don't want more hate, more discord." Leftist front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva voted in Brazil's elections Sunday and said he is running for president "to get the country back to normal" after four years under far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.