Politicians and public figures from around the world reacted with horror and expressions of solidarity with France after a truck smashed into a crowd in the Cote d'Azur resort city of Nice.

At least 84 people were killed as they watched a Bastille Day fireworks display, in what French President Francois Hollande called a "terrorist" attack. More than 50 children were among those hospitalised.

An Afghan asylum seeker died Thursday after a brawl in a Greek migration camp involving 50 others, a police source said.

An angry mob of protesters on Friday threw eggs and water bottles at South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn, calling for the retraction of a decision to deploy a US anti-missile defense system in their home town.

South Korea announced Wednesday the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, will be installed in Seongju County about 200 kilometers (135 miles) southeast of Seoul by the end of next year.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Friday called the man who rammed his truck into a crowd in Nice a 'terrorist' with probable links to radical Islam, as France plunged into mourning for the 84 people killed in the attack.

At least 10 children and teenagers were among the dead, mown down as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel plowed his lorry through the festive crowd of thousands watching fireworks for France's national day on Thursday night.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a dead heat as the Republicans head into their presidential nominating convention next week, a poll released Thursday said.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir called on arch-rival Riek Machar on Thursday to meet for talks to salvage peace after days of intense gun battles in the capital Juba.

French President Francois Hollande threatened Thursday to sack Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, who has hinted at a bid for the presidency, unless he respects the "solidarity" of the government.

It was another slow and quiet summer session Thursday in Ukraine's parliament -- until someone set off a drone inside the chamber, causing a ruckus.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the world's top criminal court, is "very welcome" in Rwanda for a summit of the African Union starting this weekend, the country's foreign minister said Thursday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry called his new British counterpart Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Thursday as the anti-EU minister's appointment raised heckles in Europe.