The head of the BBC and the British broadcaster's top news executive both resigned after criticism of the way the organisation edited a speech by US President Donald Trump. The BBC said Director-General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness had both decided to leave the corporation. Britain's publicly funded national broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021, before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington.

Critics said the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut out a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully. A clip of the BBC "Panorama" episode shared by The Daily Telegraph appears to show different parts of Trump's speech edited into one quote. In the episode, Trump is shown saying: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell."

Pakistan's prime minister on Wednesday (Nov. 12) offered talks to Afghanistan's Taliban government in a renewed peace overture, about a week after negotiations between the two sides collapsed in Istanbul, raising fears that a ceasefire brokered by Qatar and Turkey could unravel and trigger new border clashes. Shehbaz Sharif made the offer in a televised speech to parliament, a day after a deadly suicide bombing outside a court in Islamabad killed 12 people and wounded 27 others.

Still, he said that Pakistan wanted peace in the region, because it was good for both sides, though there were "Afghan footprints" in this week's attacks. "Let us sit with sincere hearts, rein in terrorism, and work together for peace and prosperity in the region," Sharif said. He said that during the recent rounds of talks in Doha and Istanbul, Pakistan had only made one demand to Afghanistan: rein in the militants. There was no immediate comment from Kabul to Sharif's offer.

Indian police were investigating a deadly car explosion in New Delhi under an anti-terrorism law, officials said Tuesday (Nov. 11), as forensic experts worked to determine the cause of the blast. The explosion occurred near the historic Red Fort late Monday, killing at least eight people and injuring several others. Senior police officials told The Associated Press that a case was registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, India's main anti-terrorism law, which allows broader powers to investigating agencies to detain suspects. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was on a scheduled visit to Bhutan on Tuesday, said investigators would "get to the bottom of this conspiracy. "The conspirators won't be spared and all those responsible will be brought to justice," Modi said. Police said the explosion was believed to have originated from a Hyundai i20 car that had stopped at a traffic signal.

France's former President Nicolas Sarkozy was freed from prison Monday after a Paris appeals court granted him release under judicial supervision, less than three weeks after he began serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya. Sarkozy, 70, left La Santé prison by car and later quickly stepped into his home in western Paris. The brief scene was in contrast to his very public incarceration 20 days earlier, when he walked down the alley near his house hand-in-hand with his wife.

The former president, who denies wrongdoing, is banned from leaving the French territory and from being in touch with key people including co-defendants and witnesses in the case, the court said. An appeals trial is expected to take place later, possibly in the spring. Sarkozy became the first former French head of state in modern times to be sent behind bars after his conviction on Sept. 25.