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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi’s cabinet issued a series of reforms early Sunday after an “extraordinary” session overnight in response to sweeping anti-government rallies that have left nearly 100 dead. Iraqis have gathered in Baghdad and across the south since Tuesday to demand widespread government reforms, which Abdel Mahdi had promised to tackle when he came into power just under a year ago. Early Sunday, his cabinet issued a […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong’s embattled leader on Saturday condemned pro-democracy protesters who trashed subway stations and shops the night before as “rioters” who had left much of the strife-torn city frightened and paralyzed. “The extreme actions of rioters created a very dark night for Hong Kong and made Hong Kong society semi-paralyzed today,” chief executive Carrie Lam said in a video statement. “Everyone is very worried and concerned, or even scared. “Extremely […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — At least 60 people have died over four days of bloody protest across Iraq, the Iraqi Human Rights Commission said late Friday, in figures that include 18 deaths registered at a single hospital in the capital Baghdad. The Commission did not specify how many were civilians or security forces. With more than 1,600 people wounded, the toll may rise further. © Agence France-Presse
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — An indefinite curfew came into effect early Thursday in Iraq’s capital after two days of chaotic protests across the country that descended into violence and left nine dead. Iraqi premier Adel Abdel Mahdi ordered the ban on movements across Baghdad starting at 5:00 am local time (0200 GMT) to stem the popular demonstrations over widespread unemployment and state corruption. Early Thursday, some cars and civilians were seen in the capital’s streets, […]
by Jerome TAYLOR / Yan ZHAO HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Flash-mob rallies broke out in Hong Kong Wednesday as anger mounted over police shooting a teenage protester who attacked officers in a dramatic escalation of the violent unrest that has engulfed the territory for months. Large crowds of demonstrators held unsanctioned marches through the commercial center and then in multiple districts throughout the evening, when police fired brief volleys of tear gas in one […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — As Hong Kong raged with the worst political violence so far this summer, many of those hitting the streets adopted a new symbol — smiling Guy Fawkes masks. The face coverings, made popular by the comic book and film “V for Vendetta”, have been embraced by multiple protest movements in recent years, particularly Anonymous hactivists and Occupy Wall Street. But until recently they had not made much of an appearance […]
by Jerome TAYLOR / Yan ZHAO HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hundreds of Hong Kongers staged a sit-in on Monday outside the school of a protester who was shot by police as authorities said the wounded 18-year-old was in a stable condition. The international finance hub has been left reeling from the shooting, the first time a demonstrator has been struck with a live round in nearly four months of increasingly violent pro-democracy protests. Hong […]
by Jerome TAYLOR / Jasmine LEUNG HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Ripped-up paving stones lay scattered around the graffiti-scarred streets of Hong Kong after one of the most violent days in a summer of rage, as protesters ready for fresh clashes on Tuesday’s 70th anniversary of communist China’s founding. The protest-wracked financial hub witnessed its fiercest political violence in weeks on Sunday as riot police spent hours in running battles with protesters, the streets blanketed […]
by Jerome TAYLOR / Yan ZHAO Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Riot police and protesters in Hong Kong fought brief skirmishes near the Chinese border on Saturday, the latest clashes during huge pro-democracy protests that have battered the financial hub for more than three months. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at small groups of hardcore activists who had built barricades in the outlying town of Tuen Mun, some of […]
by Jasmine LEUNG / Sean GLEESON HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong’s embattled leader warned the United States on Tuesday not to “interfere” with her government’s response to the city’s pro-democracy movement, after fresh protests called on Washington to ramp up pressure on Beijing. Millions of people have demonstrated over the last 14 weeks in the biggest challenge to China’s rule of the financial hub since its handover from Britain in 1997. Protesters took […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong “must be guaranteed”, after meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing. Hong Kong has faced months of pro-democracy protests, and ahead of her three-day visit to China this week, demonstrators in the semi-autonomous city appealed to the German chancellor to support them in her meetings with China’s leadership. Merkel said she had discussed tensions […]
by Aidan JONES / Jasmine Leung HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Prominent Hong Kong democracy activists were arrested Friday in a dragnet that came as protesters planned to rally this weekend in defiance of a police ban. Hong Kong has been locked in a three months of political crisis, with increasingly violent clashes between police and protesters that have prompted an escalating public relations campaign from Beijing. Protesters planned yet another mass rally on Saturday […]
