by | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday sentenced 45 leading democrats to jail terms of up to 10 years in what critics say is a major blow to the financial hub’s rule of law. The following are comments on this landmark...
by | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Weston McKennie assisted on two first-half goals by Christian Pulisic and the U.S. men’s national team advanced to the semifinals of the CONCACAF Nations League with a 4-2 victory in the second leg of the quarterfinal series against Jamaica in St. Louis on Monday....
by | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — As tens of thousands of marchers crowded the streets in New Zealand’s capital Wellington on Tuesday, the throng of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest. They arrived to oppose a law that would...
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TORONTO (AP) — Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational examination of war and trauma. The 100,000 Canadian dollar ($71,000) Giller prize honors the best in Canadian fiction. Past winners have included Margaret...
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HONG KONG (AP) — Dozens of prominent activists were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison on Tuesday in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a sweeping law imposed by Beijing that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. The defendants were...
by | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
BEIJING (Reuters) -Multiple students were injured in a vehicle collision outside a primary school in Changde in Central China’s Hunan province on Tuesday morning, Global Times said in a tweet. A collision happened in front of Yongan Primary School in Dingcheng...
