A Russian agent involved in the cleanup of the near-fatal nerve-agent poisoning of Alexei Navalny in August has revealed in an inadvertent confession how the Russian activist’s underpants were smeared with the toxin Novichok by an intelligence unit from the Russian Federal Security Service. Plus the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and a movie to give hope.

As Britain deals with a quickly spreading coronavirus variant, several European Union countries ban flights from the former bloc member. Plus, what is the larger impact of the U.S. government hack? And a retiring music legend participates in one last project.

 

With less than a month to go before the end of the year deadline to seal the deal on trade between the European Union and Britain, one negotiator is calling this a make it or break it moment. Plus the Afghan government and Taliban reach a deal. And students in South Korea take their college entrance exam - a test some see as a defining moment in their life.

Affordable treatment will soon be available for children living with HIV in low-and-middle-income countries thanks to an agreement between the global health agency UNITAID and the Clinton Health Access Initiative or CHAI. Plus, U.S. Attorney William Barr says the justice department found no fraud that would change the 2020 election.  And an update on Tigray.