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The South Korean fired warning shots Tuesday at an "unidentified object" flying across the heavily fortified border from North Korea Tuesday afternoon according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The military detected the object traversing the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) southward in the Chorwon area in the eastern province of Gangwon at around 4 pm.

South Korean army's K-55 self-propelled howitzers fire during the annual exercise in Paju, near the border with North Korea on Monday, May 22.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May addresses the nation after the worst terrorist attack in the UK since 2005. Key highlights from her speech:

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Last year, the socialist party (PSOE) leadership ousted Pedro Sánchez as its head when Sánchez refused to allow a minority government of Mariano Rajoy to form. Susana Díaz took over as party head.

Socialist party elections were held yesterday. Sánchez ran again as an outsider and shocked the POSE leadership winning an outright majority of votes in a three-way race. This was a clear smack in the face to the party leadership who backed Susana Díaz.

Tensions stemming from last week's massive brawl, caught on video, between pro-Kurdish protesters and Turkish President Recep Erdogan's security detail, escalated on Monday after, paradoxically, Turkey lodged a formal complaint with John Bass, the U.S. ambassador in Ankara, over purportedly "aggressive" actions taken by American security personnel. The complaint accused U.S. law enforcement of failing to quell an "unpermitted" and "provocative" demonstration, and demanded a "full investigation of this diplomatic incident," according to WaPo.

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