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Saturday, 18 October 2014
Hong Kong activists regroup; police chief warns safety at risk
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(Reuters) - Hong Kong pro-democracy activists recaptured parts of a core protest zone from police early on Saturday after hours of turmoil that the city's police chief warned undermined order and jeopardised public safety.
Dozens of people were injured in the skirmishes, including...
Read moreSaturday, 11 October 2014
Pitching tents, Hong Kong democracy protesters dig in for long haul
(Reuters) - Hundreds of student activists camped overnight at major protest sites in Hong Kong as the democracy movement sought to regather momentum after the government called off talks with its leaders aimed at defusing unrest in the global financial hub.
Protests escalated...
Read moreWeekend rally in St. Louis against police violence starts peacefully
(Reuters) - Weekend protests in the St. Louis area against police violence have made a tense but peaceful start, with none of the clashes with police that have affected Missouri in recent weeks.
Civil rights organizations and protest groups invited people from around the country...
Read moreMonday, 6 October 2014
Hong Kong protests subside after tumultuous week
(AP) — Passionate student-led protests for democratic reforms in Hong Kong subsided Monday but a few hundred demonstrators remained camped out, vowing to keep up the pressure on the government until officials show they are sincere in responding to their demands.
Schools reopened...
Read moreSaturday, 4 October 2014
Judge orders release of Guantanamo videotapes
(AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the public release of 28 videotapes of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner strike being forcibly removed from his cell and force-fed.
Lawyers for the prisoner, Abu Wa'el Dhiab, have challenged his treatment as abusive.
Numerous...
Read moreRival protesters face off in gritty Hong Kong neighborhood
(Reuters) - More than a thousand rival protesters, some wearing helmets, faced off in a densely populated, gritty district of Hong Kong on Saturday, fuelling concerns that the Chinese-controlled city's worst unrest in decades could take a more violent turn.
After a night of trouble...
Read moreFriday, 3 October 2014
Hong Kong protesters face backlash, threaten to abandon talks
(Reuters) - Pro-democracy protesters faced off against supporters of Chinese rule in Hong Kong's teeming Mong Kok district early on Saturday, in a tense confrontation that has undermined hopes for talks aimed at ending a week of turmoil.
Scuffles broke out late on Friday between...
Read moreThursday, 2 October 2014
Hong Kong leader offers talks with protesters
(AP) — Hong Kong's embattled leader refused to step down Thursday, as pro-democracy protesters have demanded, and instead offered talks to defuse a week of massive street demonstrations that are the biggest challenge to Beijing's authority since China took control of the former...
Read moreWednesday, 1 October 2014
In 'Umbrella Revolution,' China confronts limits of its power
(Reuters) - In the heart of Mong Kok, one of the most densely populated districts on earth, an abandoned Hong Kong police van is enveloped in the student-led demonstrations paralyzing swathes of the city. Along with yellow ribbons and flowers, symbols of the city’s pro-democracy...
Read moreTuesday, 30 September 2014
Lightning, rain fail to deter resolute Hong Kong protesters
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(Reuters) - Thousands of pro-democracy protesters thronged the rain-soaked streets of Hong Kong early on Wednesday, ratcheting up pressure on the pro-Beijing government that has called the action illegal and vowed to press ahead with National Day celebrations.
On the sixth day...
Read moreMonday, 29 September 2014
Death, Hunger Stalk Indian Tea-Estate Workers
(AP) — Death arrived soon after the Bundapani tea estate closed last year.
Deprived of health care and food rations, workers who had been scraping by on $1.50 per day were left with nothing. Bundapani's owner failed to raise the alarm as hundreds of workers slid into catastrophe.
"I...
Read moreHong Kong protesters defy Beijing with calls for democracy
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(Reuters) - Hong Kong democracy protesters defied volleys of tear gas and police baton charges to stand firm in the centre of the global financial hub on Monday, one of the biggest political challenges for Beijing since the Tiananmen Square crackdown 25 years ago.
China wagged...
Read moreSunday, 28 September 2014
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters defiant as police use tear gas
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(Reuters) - Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse pro-democracy protests on Sunday and baton-charged a crowd blocking a key road in the government district in defiance of official warnings against illegal demonstrations.
Chaos had engulfed the city's Admiralty...
Read moreHong Kong Police Use Tear Gas To Clear Protesters
(AP) — Hong Kong police have used tear gas to try to clear a huge crowd of pro-democracy protesters who had gathered outside government headquarters.
Police lobbed canisters of tear gas into the crowd on Sunday evening after spending hours holding the protesters at bay.
The searing...
Read moreSaturday, 27 September 2014
Rohingya could face detention under Myanmar draft plan
(Reuters) - Myanmar's national government has drafted a plan that will give around a million members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority a bleak choice: accept ethnic reclassification and the prospect of citizenship, or be detained.
Most of Myanmar's 1.1 million...
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