VIDEO: An annual hip-hop festival in Ghana is celebrating the west African country’s take on the American art form. Performers use their music and art to represent culture and life in Ghana, infusing local languages, fashion and sounds with elements of hip-hop.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown leads a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, attempting to spark a slave revolt that will destroy the institution of slavery. Brown is eventually sentenced to death after being found guilty of treason and murder. Before his execution, Brown writes that he is, “quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.”

Russians officials urged Turkey to limit the duration and scale of its cross-border military incursion into northeast Syria, stressing Turkish troops must at all costs avoid clashing with Syrian government forces, which have moved north and are racing to take over Kurdish border towns ahead of the Turks.

North Korean state media on Wednesday posted a slideshow of leader Kim Jong Un scaling the country’s highest mountain on horseback, and suggested the display means he is considering a major decision.

VIDEO: U.S. farmers face another season of uncertainty: How much of their crops can they harvest before the weather turns, what price will they get for them, and where will those crops go once they are harvested? As VOA reports, the answers, to a degree, rest on the outcome of issues now in the hands of U.S. lawmakers and trade negotiators.

Turkish officials say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo when they travel to Turkey to press for a halt to Ankara’s invasion of northeast Syria.