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The football legend Diego Maradona has been laid to rest at a private ceremony in Buenos Aires, with only his closest friends and family present.

Iran’s top nuclear scientist has been assassinated in an ambush near the capital Tehran.

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is heading to London this weekend to carry on with the trade talks, although Boris Johnson warned that “substantial and important differences” remained.   

Producer: Lee Sorrell In Malaysia, there’s been a serious outbreak of Covid-19 among workers at the world’s biggest manufacturer of medical gloves. The company, Top Glove, which supplies the NHS, was the subject of an investigation by this programme in June. We revealed shocking evidence about working and living conditions which put the migrant workforce…

Under arrest, accused of joining a terror group and spreading false news, three of Egypt’s leading human rights activists are now being detained as security forces step up their crackdown against civil rights groups.   

In the US, more than 8,000 Americans were recorded as having died of Covid last week

There’s been yet another legal rebuff to the attempts by the Trump campaign to challenge the election of Joe Biden in court. In a scathing ruling, a Pennsylvania district Judge threw out what he said was an attempt to disenfranchise seven million voters without any factual proof of rampant  corruption. Meanwhile, as Fatima Manji reports,…

World leaders should have been gathering for the G20 Summit in Saudi Arabia. But the pandemic means the meetings are all happening via Zoom, which has solved the potential embarrassment for many of being wined and dined by a regime accused of serious human rights abuses. But as Anja Popp reports, the Saudi hosts are…

We were joined by the writer and historian Anne Applebaum.

In the United States, election officials in Georgia have confirmed the state was won by Joe Biden after finishing their full recount – declaring “numbers don’t lie”. 

Campaigners say discrimination isn’t being documented and that’s allowing racism to flourish.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has become the first top American diplomat to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.

The Brexit trade talks in Brussels came to an unexpected halt this afternoon after one member of the European negotiating team tested positive for coronavirus.

Coronavirus cases are surging across the United States – in numbers which are 79% higher than the average two weeks earlier. More restrictions are being hastily imposed from Oregon to New Mexico, with officials concerned that next week’s Thanksgiving holiday risks spreading infections still further. As for President Trump – he’s still tweeting his baseless…

Five people have been treated for gunshot wounds, after at least 50 were injured in the latest pro-democracy protests in the Thai capital Bangkok. Crowds clashed with riot police outside the country’s parliament – as officers fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse them. Lawmakers have begun debating proposals to amend Thailand’s constitution.