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  1. Mood in Lagos turns from defiance to despondency as police-brutality protests met with violent crackdown

    South Africa Nigeria Police Protest

    Thousands of protesters have been demonstrating across Nigerian cities, calling for an end to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a police unit set up in the 1980s to tackle criminality. It has become feared and loathed by Nigerians, accused of kidnapping, torture and killing.

  2. U.S. intelligence agencies say Iran, Russia have tried to interfere in election

    Trump Impeachment

    U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that Russia and Iran have both tried to interfere with the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

  3. Democrats to boycott committee vote on Amy Coney Barrett's U.S. Supreme Court nomination

    Supreme Court Barrett

    Democrats said on Wednesday they will boycott a U.S. Senate judiciary committee vote scheduled for Thursday on U.S. President Donald Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, calling the confirmation process "a sham."

  4. Iran's investigation into Flight PS752's destruction expected to be completed in a month

    Iran plane crash

    Ukraine has wrapped up its second round of "difficult and detailed" talks with Iran over the destruction of Flight PS752 and has been told Iran's safety investigation will be completed within a month, says Ukraine's ambassador to Canada.

  5. OxyContin maker Purdue reaches plea deal in opioid probe

    Opioid Crisis Purdue

    Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion US, Justice Department officials in the U.S. announced Wednesday.