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Hong Kong police arrest 29 as city returns to violence

25 Aug 2019

Hong Kong police on Sunday said they arrested 29 people after clashes overnight in which volleys of tear gas were fired to break up anti-government protests and as the Asian...

Tear gas fired as Hong Kong police, protesters clash

24 Aug 2019

Hong Kong riot cops fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles on Saturday, as a standoff in a working-class neighbourhood...

Indonesia arrests 34, blocks Internet in Papua to help curb violent protests

22 Aug 2019

Indonesia has cut off Internet access in eastern Papua to prevent provocative posts online from fuelling violence, after protesters torched buildings, a market and a prison over mistreatment of students...

New Zealand police make arrest after tourist killed in van

17 Aug 2019

New Zealand police have arrested a 23-year-old man and charged him with murder, bringing relief to a community that was on edge after an Australian tourist was killed in a...

More protests underway in Hong Kong with no end in sight

11 Aug 2019

Protesters spilled out into the streets in two parts of Hong Kong on Sunday, blocking traffic and setting up the latest potential showdowns with police. Hong Kong braces for another...

Pakistan opposition leader Maryam arrested in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case

08 Aug 2019

Tariq Butt / Reuters In a major development, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday arrested Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President and daughter of incarcerated former prime minister...

India detains Kashmir political leaders as threat to peace

06 Aug 2019

Indian authorities say they have detained three political leaders in Kashmir because they are a threat to peace, with the Muslim-majority region under lockdown following an explosive government move to...

Dubai Customs foil smuggling of 274,000 Captagon pills

04 Aug 2019

Dubai Customs foiled a drug smuggling attempt in which the smugglers concealed the drugs in the fuel tank of their vessel. They thought inspectors would not search in that...

Founder of banned Hong Kong independence party arrested: Police

02 Aug 2019

The founder of a banned Hong Kong independence party has been arrested in a raid where offensive weapons and explosives were found, a senior police source told AFP on Friday,...

Russia detains more than 1,000 in opposition crackdown

28 Jul 2019

Russian police rounded up more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent years against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin's...

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