1.President Yoon Suk Yeol left for Prague on Thursday for a trip focused on ensuring a major nuclear energy project in the Czech Republic. Ahead of his departure, President Yoon expressed confidence in a written interview with Reuters that Korea will clinch the deal despite legal concerns.

2.The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered its benchmark interest rate by half of a percentage point to the 4.75 to 5.0 percent range, and hinted at possibly further lowering the rate later this year.

3.The opposition-dominated National Assembly passed three contentious bills on Thursday, including two mandating special counsel probes - one to look into the death of a marine last year and another to examine allegations against First Lady Kim Keon-hee. The ruling People Power Party chose to boycott Thursday's plenary session.

1.The Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles in a northeastern direction on Wednesday, further raising tensions just five days after North Korea disclosed a uranium enrichment facility.

2.Health authorities said Tuesday that emergency rooms at hospitals nationwide operated smoothly on Chuseok with patient traffic comparable to that of a typical weekend, amid a prolonged doctors' walkout.

3.Pagers used by hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding over 2-thousand-800.

1.The government and the ruling People Power Party agreed Thursday to implement financial aid measures to encourage around 8,000 hospitals and neighborhood clinics to accept patients during the upcoming Chuseok holiday, amid a prolonged doctors' walkout.

2.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea launched multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Thursday morning.

3.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his British counterpart, David Lammy, met with the top leaders of Ukraine in Kyiv on Wednesday to discuss lifting restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia.