Breonna Taylor: Kentucky city on edge ahead of prosecutor decision
Louisville, Kentucky, is under a state of emergency as prosecutors are expected to announce if police officers who killed a black woman in her home during a drug raid will be charged.
Mayor Greg Fischer said he had declared the measure "due to the potential for civil unrest".
Breonna Taylor, 26, a hospital emergency room technician, was shot multiple times on 13 March.
Her name has become a rallying cry for anti-police brutality protesters.
Alexei Navalny out of German hospital after treatment for poisoning
Doctors say Russian opposition leader could make full recovery from exposure to suspected novichok
Alexei Navalny has been discharged from Berlin’s Charité hospital after spending 32 days as an inpatient, following what German authorities say was poisoning with a novichok nerve agent and with doctors suggesting he could make a full recovery.
The hospital said in a statement on Wednesday morning that the Russian opposition politician’s condition had “improved sufficiently for him to be discharged from acute inpatient care”, and added that he had left on Tuesday.
Malaysia: Opposition leader set to form new government
Anwar Ibrahim says he has a parliamentary majority to form a new government. His claim comes less than seven months after the collapse of the previous administration of Mahathir Mohamad.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Wednesday he had secured a majority in Parliament to form a new government that is both "strong and stable."
"I am not talking about [a majority of] four, five or six...but much more than that,'' said Anwar, who did not give any firm numbers but said it was close to two thirds of the 222 lawmakers.
J&J Covid-19 vaccine trial moves into late stage
Johnson & Johnson said Wednesday it was entering the final Phase 3 stage of its Covid-19 vaccine clinical trial following positive results in earlier stages.
The trial will seek to enroll up to 60,000 volunteers across more than 200 sites in the US and around the world, the company and the US National Institutes for Health (NIH), which is providing funding, said.
With the move, J&J becomes the tenth maker globally to conduct a Phase 3 trial against Covid-19, and the fourth in the US.
Why Indian farmers are protesting against new farm bills
Farmers in several Indian states are protesting against three new bills the government says will open up the tightly-controlled agriculture sector to free-market forces.
The bills, passed by India’s parliament this week, make it easier for farmers to sell their produce directly to private buyers and enter into a contract with private companies. The government hopes private sector investments will stimulate growth.
Part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s agricultural reform policy, the laws will also allow traders to stock food items. Hoarding food items for the purpose of making a profit was a criminal offence in India.
Israel is winning on the world stage, but losing the plot at home
Updated 1024 GMT (1824 HKT) September 23, 2020
Last week's signing ceremony on the south lawn of the White House, as Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalized relations, was the celebration Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted -- and the distraction he needed.
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