Oil prices extend losses on supply, trade war fears
Oil prices slipped for a third day on Wednesday as a surge in U.S. stockpiles reinforced concerns about lackluster global economic growth, while hopes ebbed for any movement on the…
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‘They have no way to leave’: Trapped inside Hong Kong’s besieged university
By Zena Chamas and Neelima Choahan for the ABC Owan won’t say how he managed to escape Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University or how long it took, but what he will…
Hong Kong university protesters escape on rope ladders
Several protesters have escaped from a Hong Kong university campus surrounded by police by abseiling from a bridge and fleeing on the back of motorbikes. Around 100 others who tried…
Hong Kong protesters pinned back on campus amid fears of crackdown
Hong Kong police have laid siege to a university, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to pin back anti-government protesters armed with petrol bombs and other weapons and stop them…
Hong Kong court rules face mask ban unconstitutional
Hong Kong’s High Court ruled on Monday that a British colonial-era emergency law revived by the government to ban protesters wearing face masks was unconstitutional, Report informs citing the TASS….
Hong Kong campus protesters fire arrows as anti-government unrest spreads
Hong Kong protesters shot arrows and hurled petrol bombs from a barricaded university on Sunday at police who fired tear gas and water cannon in some of the worst violence…
Hong Kong protests: Police surround campus after night of violence
Police are surrounding a Hong Kong university campus after a fiery overnight stand-off with hundreds of protesters inside. Dozens of protesters tried to leave after sunrise but turned back as…
Hong Kong police threaten to use live bullets as standoff with protesters escalates
Hong Kong police have threatened to use live bullets if “rioters” used lethal weapons and committed other acts of violence, after the latest flare-up in five months of anti-government protests…
Hong Kong protesters hurl petrol bombs in fresh university clashes
Fresh violence erupted around a besieged Hong Kong university campus on Sunday morning, as protesters braced for a possible final police push to clear them after fiery clashes overnight, according…
Hong Kong campus protest showdowns loom but tension eases
The president of Hong Kong’s Chinese University, which anti-government protesters have turned into a fortress stockpiled with petrol bombs and bows and arrows, threatened on Friday to call in “assistance”…