Will it be Joe Biden or Donald Trump? The race to the White House is far from over. Although polls closed long ago, we're now entering a new phase. Two days after the US presidential election, ballot-counting is still under way due to record early voting. But it's contentious, and the longer it goes on, the more the lawyers from both sides will get involved. To break it all down, we bring you another special edition of the FRANCE 24 Debate from Washington.

It's November 3 and a divided nation is going to the polls in the middle of a pandemic. With record early voting, there will be an anxious wait for results from the US presidential election. Will the loser concede gracefully, or could the United States face a constitutional crisis? Join us for this special edition of The Debate from Washington.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been making the most of the final hours of campaigning. This is arguably the most important US election in living memory. The stakes are high for both the candidates, both the political parties and indeed for the United States, arguably in their most disunited state since the Civil War.

Hours before France goes back into lockdown, it's back to maximum terror alert level. This follows the third terror attack in just over a month, this time targeting a church in the Riviera city of Nice. Three were killed in a knifing spree, a wounded suspect is in custody. After Emmanuel Macron's defence of the republishing of Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the prophet and a boycott movement in the Muslim world, what response to the latest attack?

The last lockdown was lifted five months ago but it's still fresh in people's memories. Ever since September when people went back to school and back to work after the holidays, the Covid-19 situation has been getting progressively more serious. For two weeks, this country has had a 9pm to 6am curfew. Until just a few days ago, many people thought the next step would be simply to bring that curfew forward by a couple of hours.

In Colombia, the Minga Indigena movement converged on the capital Bogota last week to remind the government of its responsibilities in the face of drug dealers, cattle ranchers and dissident rebel groups that four years after a historic UN-brokered deal to end civil war still hold sway over vast swathes of the country's remote interior and continue to kill and intimidate with impunity.

From Morocco to Pakistan, leaders have called out Emmanuel Macron for his defence of the right to blaspheme, with Gulf States even launching a boycott of French products. They say the French president unfairly stigmatised Islam after two recent terror attacks. Macron used blunt words at last week's national tribute for Samuel Paty, the French schoolteacher beheaded over a civics lesson on free speech that included cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The brutal murder followed a social media campaign calling for Paty's sacking, supported by a Paris-area mosque which has since been shut.

How did overwhelmingly peaceful protests against police brutality turn into a bloodbath in Lagos? The anger is still palpable in Africa's largest city after the army reportedly opened fire on unarmed demonstrators in the city centre. Amnesty International says at least 12 were killed. Why the bloodbath at Lekki Toll Plaza? What response from Nigeria's old guard in the face of a youth-driven movement that's unmoved by the announcement of the dissolution of the notorious plain clothes SARS police unit? Who are the demonstrators who are transcending traditional political fault lines?

His name was Samuel Paty. In the courtyard of the Sorbonne University in the heart of Paris's Latin Quarter, French President Emmanuel Macron is leading a national tribute to the teacher who was beheaded near the gates of his middle school last Friday for giving a civics class on free speech that included Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the prophet. The attack of five years ago on the satirical newspaper was an assault on the values of free speech. Now it's the Republic itself that's been targeted.

A turning point for Thailand? For the seventh day, pro-democracy activists in Bangkok braved a ban on demonstrating, despite a tightening of the screws on independent media. Why are young people so determined? How does the biggest mass mobilisation since a 2014 coup differ from the past?