Pro-Brexit lawmaker Boris Johnson on Tuesday won the race to replace Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party. Johnson won 66 percent of the party vote, defeating his opponent, Jeremy Hunt, who secured 34 percent. Johnson will assume office in a handover ceremony on Wednesday.

ABUJA, Nigeria—Minority Shiite protesters clashed with police on Monday, leaving at least 11 people dead, according to Ibrahim Musa, a spokesman for the group. Members of the minority Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) took to the streets to demand the government release their leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky. Police used tear gas and opened fire on the demonstrators, who responded with petrol bombs and set fire to at least two cars. They also burned down an emergency unit of the National Emergency Management Agency. A deputy commissioner was shot dead, police confirmed.

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday held an emergency meeting with the country’s senior government and security leaders after Iran seized the British-flagged Stena Impero and its 23 crew members in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. Iran said it orchestrated the armed takeover in retaliation for Britain intercepting and impounding one of its tankers two weeks ago off Gibraltar that was attempting to deliver oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions.

The latest mass protests in Hong Kong turned violent late Sunday, with at least 59 people injured. The protest began peacefully, but thousands of pro-democracy marchers went beyond the designated end point of the demonstration in the Wan Chai district. They threw eggs and spray-painted graffiti at the Liaison Office, China’s government agency in the territory. Police responded with tear gas and deployed thousands of officers to the city center, where at least 14 people sustained injuries. China’s official People’s Daily newspaper called the protesters’ actions “intolerable.”

The U.S. State Department on Thursday in Washington concluded its second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom by announcing plans to create the International Religious Freedom Alliance. The three-day event featured nearly 900 religious leaders and activists from more than 100 countries and focused on joint efforts to end religious persecution. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the alliance will be the first international body to specifically combat religious persecution.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard this week seized a foreign tanker and 12 crew members accused of smuggling oil, Iranian state TV said Thursday. The vessel appears to be the United Arab Emirates–based, Panamanian-flagged MT Riah oil tanker, which went off radar on Sunday night near Qeshm Island, where the Revolutionary Guard runs a base. State TV said the forces intercepted the vessel south of Iran’s Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz and later found it was transporting 1 million liters of fuel from Iranian smugglers to foreign customers.

An attack on a popular animation studio in Kyoto, Japan, early Thursday killed at least 33 people. The 41-year-old suspect, according to local media reports, dumped a liquid accelerant on the floor of the three-story building housing Kyoto Animation and set it on fire, shouting, “You die!” Firefighters found 20 bodies on the building’s third floor and some on the stairs to the roof, where they likely collapsed while trying to escape. At least 36 others sustained injuries, with 10 in critical condition. More than 70 people were in the building at the time, fire officials said.