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'Tiananmen Square' crackdown in Hong Kong would harm trade deal: Trump

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- US President Donald Trump on Sunday warned China that carrying out a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown on Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters would harm trade talks between the two ...

Hong Kong protesters flood city streets in 'peaceful' march

HONG KONG (AFP) -- A sea of democracy activists flooded the streets of Hong Kong Sunday in a defiant show to the city's leaders that their movement still pulls wide public support, despite mounting v...

August 18, 2019
World News
Defiant Hong Kong protesters vow huge rally despite Beijing threats

HONG KONG (AFP) -- Hong Kong democracy activists are hoping to get out a huge crowd later Sunday in a bid to show the city's leaders that their protest movement remains defiant despite increasingly s...

August 18, 2019
World News
As China pressure mounts, Hong Kong's Cathay sacks two pilots

Cathay Pacific said Wednesday two pilots had been sacked, as the Hong Kong carrier comes under huge pressure from Beijing to clamp down on staff supportive of anti-government rallies. "One is curren...

August 14, 2019
World News
Opera's Domingo faces sexual harassment probe, shows canceled

NEW YORK (AFP) -- Opera legend Placido Domingo faced a growing #MeToo storm Tuesday as the Los Angeles Opera opened an investigation into multiple allegations of sexual harassment against him and two...

August 14, 2019
World News
Flights resume at Hong Kong airport after protests

HONG KONG (AFP) -- Flights resumed Tuesday at Hong Kong airport a day after a massive pro-democracy rally there forced the shutdown of the busy international transport hub. Early Tuesday, passengers...

August 13, 2019
World News
India's Modi defends powderkeg Kashmir move

NEW DELHI (AFP) -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday his powderkeg move to strip the disputed Kashmir region of its autonomy was necessary to stop "terrorism", as Pakistan voiced furt...

August 9, 2019
World News
US approves $800 m in helicopters for S. Korea

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The US government has approved the sale of $800 million worth of helicopters to South Korea, the Pentagon announced Wednesday, hours after President Donald Trump said Seoul had ag...

August 8, 2019
Defense
Hong Kong unrest spreads as leader warns city on brink

HONG KONG (AFP) -- Hong Kong's unrest spread more widely throughout the financial hub Monday as riot police clashed with pro-democracy protesters at multiple locations and the city's leader warned of...

August 6, 2019
World News
US designates China a 'currency manipulator' as trade war rages

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The United States on Monday formally accused China of manipulating its currency, marking the second major escalation in the two countries' spiraling trade war in just 24 hours. W...

August 6, 2019
World News
Dismissing missile tests, Trump says Kim won't want to 'disappoint me'

US President Donald Trump downplayed on Friday North Korea's missile tests, saying that while they may violate a UN resolution, Kim Jong Un will not want to "disappoint" him because he has "too much ...

August 3, 2019
Foreign Affairs
South Korean anti-bullying campaigner wins Asia's 'Nobel prize'

A campaigner who tackles youth suicide in South Korea, two journalists, and a human rights activist were named Friday among the winners of Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Aw...

August 2, 2019
World News
Earth's 2019 resources 'budget' spent by July 29: report

PARIS (AFP) -- Mankind will have used up its allowance of natural resources such as water, soil and clean air for all of 2019 by Monday, a report said. The so-called Earth Overshoot Day has moved up...

July 29, 2019
World News
IMF downgrades world growth, warns of 'precarious' 2020

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Global trade tensions, continued uncertainty and rising prospects for a no-deal Brexit are sapping the strength of the world economy, which faces a "precarious" 2020, the Internati...

July 24, 2019
World Business
Swimmers 'don't trust' Sun as doping row boils over

GWANGJU, South Korea (AFP) - World championship swimmers slammed China's Sun Yang over lurid doping allegations and said competitors were firmly behind Australia's Mack Horton, who snubbed the Olympi...

July 22, 2019
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