Iraqi officials imposed a curfew in Baghdad on Thursday after anti-government protests this week killed at least 21 people. Hundreds of protesters still crowded into Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, where police responded with live bullets and tear gas. Three other cities have set curfews since Tuesday as the protests spread across the country.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson turned in a revised Brexit proposal on Wednesday with a warning his country would walk away without a deal if the European Union rejected it. With an Oct. 31 deadline looming, Johnson’s offer seeks to address the major sticking point of how the border will operate between EU-member Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K. He proposed keeping Northern Ireland within a regulatory EU zone for food, agriculture, and industrial products until 2025.

One day after announcing upcoming nuclear talks with the United States, North Korea fired a ballistic missile from the sea into Japan’s exclusive offshore economic zone on Wednesday. A North Korean missile has not come that close to Japan since November 2017. South Korean military officials suggested but did not confirm North Korea launched the missile from a submarine.

Thousands of Hong Kong students and workers rallied on Wednesday after a police officer shot a teenager in the chest during Tuesday’s protests. The student, 18-year-old Tsang Chi-kin, is in stable condition. Demonstrators gathered outside his school in the Tsuen Wan district chanting anti-police slogans. Some placed their hands over their chests to signify where the officer shot him. Office workers also skipped lunch to march to Chater Garden near the Legislative Council building in the central business district.

Fears about terror attacks and disillusionment with an ineffective government kept many Afghans home during this past weekend’s national election.

“I voted last time, but the result just made the country worse,” 36-year-old Farhad Azimi said. Only about 20 percent of 9.66 million registered voters turned out, the country’s lowest participation since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.

ABUJA, Nigeria—A Boko Haram offshoot shot two Nigerian Christians according to a video from last week and threatened to target more. In the video, extremists with the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) vowed to continue attacks in central Plateau state to avenge the killing of Muslims during previous religious conflicts.

After a monthslong hiatus, diplomats from North Korea and the United States will sit down to negotiate this weekend at an undisclosed location. In February, the two sides halted all talks about North Korea ending its nuclear weapons program after an unsuccessful summit between U.S President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam.