Turkish troops said on July 15 they had seized power but President Tayyip Erdogan vowed that the attempted coup would be put down and crowds answered his call to defy a curfew order and take to the streets to support him.

World leaders united in horror and pledged their determination to fight terrorism on July 15 after a truck attack on a Bastille Day crowd in the French Riviera city of Nice killed 84 people.

New Prime Minister Theresa May ruthlessly overhauled the British cabinet on July 14, sacking a raft of ministers, promoting loyalists and putting supporters of Britain's exit from the European Union firmly in charge of negotiating its terms.

The US House of Representatives passed two pieces of legislation linked to the international nuclear agreement with Iran on July 14, one year after the landmark pact was announced, defying President Barack Obama's veto threat.

US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian President Vladimir Putin about boosting military and intelligence cooperation against Islamic State and al Qaeda in Syria and told him that without "concrete, near-term steps," diplomatic efforts to end the war could not go on indefinitely.

An attacker killed up to 80 people and injured scores when he drove a truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on July 14.

Theresa May became Britain's prime minister on July 13 with the task of leading it out of the European Union, and quickly named leading 'Brexit' supporters including former London mayor Boris Johnson to key positions in her new government.

The Republic of Korea's LG Innotek Co Ltd said on Wednesday it is considering building a plant in Vietnam to manufacture camera modules, without disclosing further details.

China vowed to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty over the South China Sea and said it had the right to set up an air defense zone, after rejecting an international tribunal's ruling denying its claims to the energy-rich waters.

Indonesia wants to send hundreds of fishermen to the Natuna Islands to assert its sovereignty over nearby areas of the South China Sea to which China says it also has claims.