Turkey’s opposition party won in a do-over election Sunday for Istanbul’s mayoral seat, signifying a major defeat for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party. Ekrem Imamoglu from the Republican People’s Party secured 54 percent of the votes. Former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim from the ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party emerged with 45 percent, according to initial results.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s former and present foreign secretaries respectively, emerged as the two finalists to replace Theresa May as the country’s prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party. Johnson, who also served as mayor of London, secured 160 votes from the 313 Conservative members of Parliament who cast ballots. He has held the lead since the first of five voting rounds began last week with 10 contenders. Hunt received 77 votes.

More than a thousand demonstrators dressed in black resumed protests in Hong Kong on Friday against a controversial extradition bill. The demonstrators, most of them students, gathered outside government offices in the city center. Those offices remained closed on Friday “due to security considerations.” Police told demonstrators to disperse but did not immediately use force to remove them.

UPDATE: The commanding general of the U.S. Air Forces Central Command in southwest Asia disputed Iran’s claim that the U.S. drone was flying in Iranian airspace when it was shot down. Lt. Gen. Joseph Guastella said the RQ-4 Global Hawk drone was 21 miles from the nearest Iranian territory and flying at a high altitude when struck by an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps surface-to-air missile.

Chinese President Xi Jinping began a two-day formal visit to North Korea Thursday, becoming the first Chinese leader to visit the country in 14 years. The Chinese delegation includes Xi’s wife, Peng Liyuan, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and other officials. Kim and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, welcomed the delegation with a 21-gun salute at the Pyongyang airport. About 10,000 people waved flags and chanted slogans, according to China’s Xinhua news agency.

The suspected limpet mines used to sabotage two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week have “a striking resemblance” to Iranian mines, a U.S. Navy explosives expert said on Wednesday. The United States blamed Iran for the attacks on the Japanese Kokuka Courageous and Norwegian-owned Front Altair tankers. The U.S.

Nigerian Christians terrorized by the Islamist group Boko Haram and insurgent, militant herdsmen implored U.S. President Donald Trump last week to intervene in their increasingly forgotten crisis.

Boko Haram’s violence in northeastern Nigeria has killed tens of thousands of people. The insurgency has withered down to sporadic attacks, but hundreds of people remain in captivity, including about 110 girls kidnapped in 2014 from Chibok, and Leah Sharibu, a Christian schoolgirl taken in 2018 and remains in captivity because of her faith.