North Korea fires two ballistic missiles

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Available live coverage points to North Korea’s missile launch as the most urgent breaking story right now, because it is a new military escalation with immediate regional security implications. The reported launches were described as the latest in a series of weapons demonstrations by Pyongyang, even after the United States recently scaled back a joint military exercise with South Korea. Broader regional reporting also shows continuing instability across the Middle East and Europe, but the North Korean launch is the clearest fresh incident in the current news feed and is the most time-sensitive development identified in the materials reviewed.

Sources: NDTV, AP