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20,000 apply for chance to 'vent anger' at Hong Kong leader
Sep 24, 2019 (AFP)
It is the government's first attempt to reach out to the protestors since millions took to the streets in the biggest challenge to China's rule since the city's...
HK activist Wong seeks Trump, US congress support
Sep 13, 2019 (AFP)
The 22-year-old called on American politicians to pass a bill expressing support for the pro-democracy campaign during a speaking engagement in New York, a few ...
Joshua Wong: Hong Kong's pro-democracy poster child
Sep 11, 2019 (AFP)
Five years later, the 22-year-old is one of the most prominent faces in the city's leaderless pro-democracy movement, often seen on rallies, locked up by police...
Trudeau opens bruising Canada election campaign
Sep 11, 2019 (AFP)
Polls showed Trudeau, once the youthful golden boy of Canadian politics, in a horse race with Conservative Andrew Scheer, who launched his bid for leadership by...
China fury as HK's Joshua Wong meets German foreign minister
Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)
Posting a photo of himself and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on his Twitter account, the 22-year-old said they spoke on the "protest situation and our cause to fr...
Seeking support, HK's Joshua Wong meets German foreign minister
Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)
Posting a photo of himself and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on his Twitter account, the 22-year-old said they spoke on the "protest situation and our cause to fr...
Hong Kong's Joshua Wong on way to Germany, US after brief detention
Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)
Wong, 22, was among multiple prominent democracy advocates who were detained late last month in a roundup by police as the semi-autonomous city reels from more ...
UN sounds alarm over climate change's impact on human rights
Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)
UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet cited the civil wars sparked by a warming planet and the plight of indigenous people in an Amazon ravaged by wildfires and ram...
'Braves' on the frontlines of Hong Kong's protests
Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)
The 19-year-old bespectacled student is one of what Hong Kong protesters have dubbed "the braves" -- hardline pro-democracy activists who have embraced violence...
Trump, US media just can't let go of 'Sharpie-gate'
Sep 07, 2019 (AFP)
The bizarre episode has taken on an even more bizarre mascot -- a Sharpie marker used to alter a map of the storm's trajectory. Trump has insisted via Twitter t...
Tech firms, US officials talk election protection at Facebook
Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)
Google, Microsoft and Twitter were listed among the companies that met with representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Sec...
Hong Kong students defy China warnings with boycott
Sep 02, 2019 (AFP)
Students have been the backbone of a movement that sprang up to oppose government plans to allow extraditions to China but has morphed into wider protests again...
China warns 'end is coming' to HK students; As arrests soar in Xinjiang
Sep 02, 2019 (AFP)
Students have been the backbone of opposition to government plans to allow extraditions to China, a movement that has morphed into wider protests against the Be...
Trump lashes 'corrupt' Puerto Rico ahead of storm
Aug 28, 2019 (AFP)
Trump has feuded continuously with the US territory in the wake of Maria, where he was widely accused of failing to bring sufficient help. He says he did respon...
Shrugging off Trump, FBI tackles right-wing extremists
Aug 25, 2019 (AFP)
Earlier this year, the two might not have drawn the attention of US law enforcement. But ever since a young racist slaughtered 22 at a Texas Walmart, and anothe...
China slams HK airport protesters as 'terrorist-like'
Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)
The rallies, which had paralysed one of the world's busiest travel hubs, ended with ugly clashes on Tuesday night that included protesters beating two men. The ...
Tens of thousands of women march in Brazil against Bolsonaro
Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)
The huge demonstration in Brasilia comes as Bolsonaro faces increasing heat over rampant deforestation in the Amazon rainforest as well as education funding cut...
Taiwan calls for 'genuine' elections in Hong Kong, irking Beijing
Jul 22, 2019 (AFP)
Hong Kong has been plunged into its worst crisis in recent history by weeks of marches and sporadic violent confrontations between police and pockets of hardcor...
Grants aim to fund study on technology's impact on democracy
Jul 22, 2019 (AFP)
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation said it would offer $50 million in funding for research "to better understand how technology is transforming our demo...
New EU chief faces battle for stable majority
Jul 17, 2019 (AFP)
The outgoing German defence minister will not take office until November, but she already faces a clamour of demands from the factions she will need to unite be...
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