Hong Kong's status as one of the world's most prominent financial hubs appears to be under threat. Beijing has unanimously passed a new national security law for the territory, which some experts warn has the potential to erode the very structures that grant the region major privileges on the international stage. The legislation bans sedition, secession and…
A man displays the Hong Kong colonial flag Wednesday, the anniversary of the city's handover to China from Britain in 1997. The gesture could be prosecuted under Bejing's new national security law, which it imposed on Hong Kong. Kin Cheung/AP hide caption toggle caption Kin Cheung/AP A man displays the Hong Kong colonial flag Wednesday,…
A controversial national security law imposed by China on Hong Kong has come into force, punishing crimes of secession, sedition and collusion with foreign forces with terms of up to life in prison. Beijing says the law is necessary to deal with separatism and foreign interference, but critics fear the legislation, which was approved in…
(CNN)Beijing is reintroducing strict lockdown measures and rolling out mass testing after a fresh cluster of novel coronavirus cases emerged from the city's largest wholesale food market, sparking fe…
China's parliament has approved a decision to move forward with national security legislation for Hong Kong that critics fear could undermine the city's autonomy. The National People's Congress on Thursday voted 2,878 to 1 in favour of the decision to empower its standing committee to draft the legislation, with six abstentions. More: Tensions boil in…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…