The Latest on Brexit (all times local):

Russian officials have designated a nonprofit organization behind major anti-corruption investigations as a foreign agent in a move that is likely to hinder their activities.

A court in Thailand has commuted a Taiwanese man’s death sentence for smuggling heroin to life imprisonment.

A Tokyo court has held a hearing into the case of a former brokerage manager who says he was forced from his job for taking paternity leave.

President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping have plenty of reasons to call off their trade war.

The U.K. financial system is prepared to cope with a no-deal Brexit, though uncertainties about the country’s withdrawal from the European Union are weighing hard on the wider economy, the Bank of England said Wednesday.

A special U.N. report has criticized American airstrikes earlier this year against alleged drug facilities in Afghanistan, saying the attacks were unlawful and caused significant civilian casualties.

The NBA has postponed Wednesday’s scheduled media sessions in Shanghai for the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers, and it remains unclear if the teams will play in China this week as scheduled.

A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide.

A look at what’s happening around the majors Wednesday: