Taiwan President Lai Ching-te oversaw coastal strike drills during annual war games, boarding a fast attack ​missile boat and watching the deployment of low-flying attack drones to simulate beating off a Chinese assault.

The boy shot his grandparents dead at dawn on Friday in their two-storey house bordering rice ​fields on the outskirts of Bangkok.

Russian drones killed a three-year-old boy and his ​grandparents in a village in the Kyiv region, and another person was killed during an overnight ballistic attack on the capital, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

A U.S. official reported progress between Iran and Oman that could soon reopen the Strait ​of Hormuz, potentially restoring oil exports that have been disrupted by the five-month-old U.S. war with Iran.

Typhoon Dolphin lashed Japan’s southern Okinawa prefecture, injuring six people ‌and cutting power to more than 50,000 buildings, while China shut ports and halted ferries ahead of the storm’s expected arrival on its east coast.

Pacific Island foreign ministers failed to agree on Friday to a joint response to China’s missile launch in July, with further discussions expected at the Pacific leaders meeting at the end of August, ​New Zealand’s foreign minister said.

At least seven people were killed on Friday ‌when a student opened fire at a school in Thailand before turning the gun on himself, a national police official said.

Democratic Republic of Congo’s confirmed ​Ebola cases have risen above 4,000 for the ‌first time in the current outbreak, government data showed.

Hundreds of thousands of people in southwestern Japan were ordered to evacuate and more ​than 500 flights cancelled on Friday as slow-moving ‌Typhoon Dolphin approached the region to bring violent winds, heavy rain and high waves.

New Zealand’s ruling centre-right coalition may retain a razor-thin parliamentary majority if an election were held now, a poll showed on Friday, but a ​surge for the new centrist Opportunity Party could reshape coalition talks ahead of ‌the November vote.

A bomb planted in a minibus killed two people and wounded 14 others on the outskirts of Syria’s capital Damascus on Thursday night, officials said.

When blasphemy allegations against a Christian family prompted a mob of hundreds to assemble in Pakistan’s teeming metropolis Karachi last month, officers knew they might only have minutes to save the four women and one child who were targeted.