Protest song 'Glory to Hong Kong' now banned in city after appeals court overturns ruling An appeals court has granted the Hong Kong government’s request to ban a protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the city. 05/8/2024 - 12:06 am | View Link
Hong Kong police offer £100k reward for information about five pro-democracy activists abroad "Being hunted by China (Hong Kong)'s secret police, under a one-million-dollar bounty, is a lifelong honour." "If the government deems the quest for democracy and freedom a crime, we embrace the ... 12/15/2023 - 1:44 am | View Link
Over 200,000 vote in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy primaries HONG KONG--Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers turned up over the weekend to vote in an unofficial two ... and disruption of duties by the local government. Organizers have dismissed the ... 07/12/2020 - 5:24 am | View Link
Hong Kong police grapple with pro-democracy protesters HONG KONG--Riot police in Hong Kong grappled with pro-democracy protesters who gathered in ... protests against Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed government that paralyzed parts of the semiautonomous ... 05/1/2020 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Hong Kong anniversary: Pro-democracy protesters arrested China is marking the 20th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from the British ... including student leader Joshua Wong. The protesters also called for the release of imprisoned Chinese ... 06/27/2017 - 1:00 pm | View Link
MALMO, Sweden — It’s time for many people to don sequins and spangles — and for others to pick up protest banners and Palestinian flags — for Saturday’s final of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.
The competition that pits nations against one another for pop music glory is reaching its conclusion in the Swedish city of Malmo, with Croatia and Switzerland among those tipped to take the trophy, and Israel at the center of a political storm.
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Hours before the final, Dutch contestant Joost Klein was dramatically booted out by organizers over a backstage incident.
Xi Jinping has changed China fundamentally. He has kept the same political system that Chairman Mao Zedong created when he founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Mao governed China with “Mao Zedong Thought,” which he introduced in 1945. Deng Xiaoping put that aside when he took power in 1978 and unleashed the “reform and opening up” era.
(WASHINGTON) A soon-to-be released Biden administration report to Congress does not conclude that Israel has violated the terms for its use of U. S. weapons.
That’s according to three people who have been briefed on the national security memorandum to be submitted by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to lawmakers. All three requested anonymity to discuss the matter before the report’s release.
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The report is expected to be sharply critical of Israel, even though it didn’t conclude that Israel violated terms of U.
(WASHINGTON) — The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U. S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country, an analysis of FBI data by the gun safety group Everytown found.
The rate of stolen guns from cars climbed nearly every year and spiked during the coronavirus pandemic along with a major surge in weapons purchases in the U.
(ST. PETERSBURG, Russia) — A bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a river on Friday in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, killing seven people, officials said.
The Investigative Committee, Russia’s top criminal investigations body, reported the death toll. It did not state how many others were injured, but the emergencies ministry earlier said that six people removed from the bus were in critical or serious condition.
Russian news reports said there were 15 people on the city bus when it broke through a barrier and plunged into the Moika River in central St.
A working paper from an independent body that gives economic advice to the Indian government has published controversial findings that critics say could sow communal discord between Hindus and Muslims during the ongoing parliamentary elections.
The paper, titled “Share of religious minorities: A cross-country analysis,” was published on May 7 by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM).